#258: All Frahoodled

Yeah, "frahoodled" is one of those not-in-the-dictionary words. "Ferhoodled," however, is...it means all mixed up or confused and comes primarily from the Pennsylvania German Area (the land of my maternal grandmother who I believe first taught me the word), according to Dictionary.com. That's pretty much the way to describe most parts of the Internet that I've been encountering today. Just imagine if you got up in the morning and started praying and suddenly a message flashed in the air in front of you:

"Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience."

I think "disconcerted" might qualify as the word of the day, now wouldn't it?!! Fortunately, God's site...that would be Heaven for you uninformed Barbarians reading this...is ALWAYS available, except perhaps for individual rooms within the Mansion that are under construction while the future occupants are gradually dying down here on Earth That Is ("Was" in the "Firefly" series, for you afficionados). Just in case you haven't thought about it lately, God's "phone number" is Jeremiah 33:3, "Call to me and I will answer, and show you great and wonderful things you do not know."

"Site Maintenance"... my great aunt Lizzie's hairbun! Don't those Bozos know I've got unreality to check?

#257: Number Your Days

Today one of my readings referred to Psalm 90:12, "So teach us to number our days, that we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom." Well, as I told the folks who get my Facebook status updates, Happy Day #20,770! (My Life Reference Day, that is...yours, of course, would be different, since you would be numbering your days, not mine, but you get the idea.)
This is the same psalm that says, "For a thousand years in Thy sight are like yesterday when it passes by, Or as a watch in the night." So, in light of this math, if you pray for something and the Lord says, "Wait a minute," does it mean 1,000 years=24 hours x 60 minutes, or 1000/1440 minutes=.694 years, or.694 x 52=36.1 weeks?
If we figure an average gestation period of 270 days (9 months' pregnancy) should this be Day #21,040 since my world life view sees "life" beginning at conception, not at birth, as our Constitution considers American citizenship? After all, with our highly developed medical and biological science, we know that two dna chains "knit together in our mother's womb" form the absolute basis of our personality and biological "game plan" of genetic orders and disorders!

Well, this is also the psalm that says, "As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; for soon it is gone and we fly away." I guess that puts me at roughly 81.4% or 71.3% near dead in the overall concept of my being as I sit around killing time writing to you two who are reading this while time is killing me in its oh, so effective way. Of course, on the other hand, assuming the statistics hold, I'm somewhere between 28.7% to 18.6% distance from Heaven, so there's that there silver lining they're often quoting...ooo, deja vu on the last post! ;p
Gotta go play. Numbering your days?

#256: They're There with Their Test

Yessiree, Bob...I'm back in Facebook Test Mode....Got me a 100% on the There/Their/They're Test the other day (danggit, as Elfson says, I'm good), I'm 75% Profoundly Genius (meaning, I conclude, Dr. Watson, that I'm also 25% Profoundly MORON!), and just this morning, at the ripe old age of three and a half fortnights short of 57 I learned that my REALLY TRUE AGE is 43! Fortunately, on the REALLY IMPORTANT LIFE TEST my Substitute scored 100% for me and applied His marks to my account book! It took bloodshed, but He was up to the task and then some!! Thanks, Lord!

Another test, "What Warrior Clan Do You Belong In?", put me in with The Barbarians...hmmmm...somebody ratted me out that I CUT spaghetti even in Italian houses and Chinese noodles in front of my adopted Chinese daughter and granddaughter... seems my total depravity, 20% of that Calvinist T.U.L.I.P., is showing. Well, just in case you missed it or have forgotten it (like the 25% of me that's Moron often does) here's the acronym:

Total Depravity
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonement
Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saints

So, there you have their (Calvinists') view of why they're rejoicing in their Lord always, again they're willing to say rejoice! They're onto their lost state and their Lord's perfection there on the Cross on their behalf.
Got questions?

#255: Rules of Maintenance

While mowing on the old John Deere earlier today, I came up with some things folks should know about the World of Maintenance, post-Fall since Adam gave up his gardener job for one in maintenance.

Rules About Tools:
1. USE YOUR OWN!
2. Always cut away from yourself while using sharp knives, axes, hatchets, and chisels.
3. Frequently ignore Rule #2.
4. Know where you local Emergency Room is and someone to take you there.

Rules About Clothes:
1. All your ratty, really comfortable old work clothes started out brand new...yeah, SO?!
2. Dirt is attracted in direct proportion to the newness of the clothes; wear ratty old stuff.
3. Know someone who launders with Amway products!
4. Blood on clothing is like a home-made medal of honor; display spots proudly.

Rules About Music:
1. Play it LOUD!
2. When in doubt, remember Rule #1 in this category.
3. Country and Western are only ONE category.
4. Intersperse Jesus music with rock and roll...it keeps them wondering.

Rules About Everything Else:
1. Walk on The Edge to see a spectacular view.
2. Need parents even if you're well over 50 years of age.
3. Why worry when you can pray?!!
4. Develop a rep and milk it for all its worth!
5. Do Justice, love Mercy, and walk humbly before your God!

Questions?

#254: Questions of Miscellany

I'm listening to "Jesus, You Have Broken the Chains" and have some not-so-necessarily-related questions...I am, however, getting cranked up.
As I stood at the sink this morning in the Grey Havens, munching on my raisin bread toast and reading Isaiah 29:1, "Woe, O Ariel, Ariel the city where David once camped," I wondered, "Just what did Isaiah have against The Little Mermaid?"

Then, the other day it occurred to me, if there are polar bears and they manage to migrate to the opposite pole, would they be bi-polar bears? Could they seek counseling grants under the aegis of the Department of the Interior (a topic discussed in Post #250)? Given that the polar bears living in the region that might get moved from snowhome sweet snowhome if the "EVIL" Sarah Palin and her ilk have their way, the poor old polars might be conflicted, have issues...EEUUUUUWWW!! ;P

Why "Wii?" Wikipedia says Nintendo says, "Wii sounds like 'we', which emphasizes that the console is for everyone. Wii can easily be remembered by people around the world, no matter what language they speak. No confusion. No need to abbreviate. Just Wii." I say, we wee Wii users say, "WHEEEEEEEE!!"

The "any language" deal reminds me of a long term question I've had..."Just what language does a baby cry in?" "Babby-lonian?" ;P

Well, love is patient, love is kind, love is humble all of the time, not easily angered, enduring the test...love is the more excellent way...just as the song and I Corinthians 13 say.
Got questions?

#253: Bald

While I was rolling through Facebook just a few minutes ago, I spotted an ad for "professional hair removal." OK, so it means legs and other places you don't want it...Big Deal. God's been removing hair for 6,000 years or more in the natural course of The Curse the way I see it...the irony is that He then grows it in your ears, nose and other places as a form of crop rotation.

I've also got a theory, speaking of The Curse. When Cain killed Abel God "put a mark on him." I'm figurin' He struck him with immediate male pattern baldness to differentiate him from the rest of all those hairy Mid-Easterners. Oh, and even though The Mark (whatever it was) showed that Cain was The Murderer, it also PROTECTED him in God's Providence so he could go forth and multiply; which he apparently did quite effectively.
Got bad hair day?

#252: Running On Quicksand

Back in the day of about 1977, Jackson Browne told us he was "Running On Empty." Today I feel like I'm Running on Quicksand. The task: fasten a coin machine to the side of a cabinet. The work: build a support stand for it, get all the tools, replace the broken cord on my drill, do all the work, cleanup, put all my toys away. Three hours of labor...yeah, I know..."do all things as unto the Lord!"

Did you ever feel you're Running Like A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off? Well, back in October of 1999 I decided at the end of one of those kind of days to write down everything I could remember I did and to continue to do likewise each workday thereafter. Well, since then I've accumulated 154,979 tasks here at Camp Cornelius that actually made it to the roster. I'm guessing 1-2% forgetfulness factor is also involved. The reason I mention this is that you might run into similar days in your shuffling around on this mortal coil and you might actually profit from keeping a record, too. I've actually answered a LOT of questions for folks in job-related areas needing memory and the "Find" factor of Microsoft is a handy dandy little tool. (Yes, I actually said something complimentary about my computer!)

Speaking of quicksand...it appears that the Internet has fallen into some; especially the functions on Facebook, so I'm gonna go get some lunch and quit Running On Empty! ;P

#251: Not Much To Say

Told you.

#250: Department of the Exterior

OK, it's full moon these days, so I'm a little further out on The Edge than usual, and that's usually pretty far as some would say. In any event, I was watching a Glenn Beck dvd last night with Audiovisualman and ITGuy and Glenn mentioned the Department of the Interior having to deal with offshore drilling and polar bears. Has anyone noticed that ALL the stuff the DOI deals with is OUTSIDE???!!! I looked at the website for the DOI today and here's some of the stuff they do: manage offshore drilling, manage 500 million acres of land, deal with floods, conservation, earthquakes, hurricanes, protect 1,267 endangered species (notice babies in the womb are NOT part of that list!!), wild horse and burro adoption, forests, and Indian trusts. Maybe we should redesignate it the Department of the EXTERIOR!! ;p

Then I got to thinking...We now have the Department of Defense since 1949, not the Department of War as it was originally called back for most of our history. Does that indicate a deep seated psychological change in our thinking? Wikipedia says "However, in the aftermath of the carnage of WW II, governments came to the conclusion that the use of the word “war” added, if not assumed, a bellicose attitude towards military preparedness. Thus, the late 1940s and 1950s witnessed the renaming from “War” to “Defense” in most countries around the globe." In other words, it would appear EVERYBODY decided to sugar coat the reality of their Machiavellian machinations to fool at least the public of their own lands if not the leadership of fellow bellicose land grabbers!! I believe it's Isaiah 5:20 that says, "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil." See any connection to word-changing that might be appropriate in a post-Reformational Zen Buddhist sort of way?

Awww...I gotta go plant some grass seed...outside, of course, in my own department of the interior.

#249: Wii The People

Distraction is the name of the game. All you have to do is get people involved with themselves, out of touch with history and the kind of people who seek and grab power under whatever Machiavellian circumstances arise, and you've got yourself a tyranny in the making.

Wii is the current distraction for untold millions of folks. I know whereof I speak. All the other things in front of us...Facebook, Blogs, Online and Home Alone Computer games...are of the same ilk, which rhymes with milk, and that turns sour, too. The sleight of hand of the Evil One (which is far more subtle and evolved than that used by Christian Bale in "The Prestige") is everywhere to be seen and participated in...and before you know it, we'll turn around with our chains firmly forged and in place.

Here in the USofA the government is supposed to be of, by, and for us people. Turns out it aint never been so and aint never gonna be, in my humble opinion, but, hey, "ALL things together for the good of those who love God"...maybe NOT for those who don't, hunh?!! Just who's stealing the country in the providence of the Lord?!!
Got internet connections?

#248: Thirteen Animal Crackers & Other Stuff

Yep...I just consumed 61.5 non-fat, non-transfat, non-cholesterol carrying calories by chomping down 8 Stauffer's Animal Crackers. Who in the advertising world came to the conclusion that we animal cracker consumers needed to know that THIRTEEN of the little delicacies contain 100 calories?!! What I want to know is whether that means 13 of the SAME animal or if they are all equally calorie-carrying be they camel, elephant, or hippopotamus!! And THEN...just who got paid to come UP with that statistic, considering the paranoia of most of the human race about the number 13. Were they banking on the fact that folks only find out about the fat/transfat/cholesterol stats and don't let THE most important one register on their pea brains?!!

I just spotted two ads on Facebook that actually FIT together. One is an offer for a free Obama button (I'm betting it'll be a collectible whether he wins or not) and the other is a McCain/Palin For You? ad by Pajamas TV..."the only online media company overlooking the RNC floor." So, like who was on top of the DNC...Negligee Radio? I think I have to go look for the duct tape to wrap up my head so it doesn't explode.

Oh, we're up to four incidences of yesterday's subliminal Obama/Cleese ad. By the way, I noted that the Obama/McCain-Palin ads had the Obomber on top and shortly thereafter was an anti- McCain ad on top and an Economist magazine one on bottom. Do I smell a conspiracy here?
Well, it's a gorgeous day here at Camp Cornelius, half the place is fully mowed, and I'm about to wrap it up. He who sits in heaven STILL laughs at those who oppose Him!
Got chuckles?

#247: Miscellaneous Messiah Musings

Two hundred, sixty-seven years ago to the day (thanks, Frodo) George Frideric Handel finished his first copy of Messiah, the incredible piece of music most people only hear around Christmas time. He finished 260 pages of music in only 24 days and apparently was not aware when he was in the body or out of the body, as Paul writes in Corinthians, because of the impact the Spirit was having on him at the time. (This info is brought to you by The One Year Book of Christian History...go buy a copy!!)

This year's Presidential Campaign has talk of a political messiah running throughout its verbiage. There is an interesting providential coincidence on Facebook sidebar ads that occurred today as it did for me yesterday...I'm going to be tracking how many times I see this fortuitous combination between now and November!! ;P As you can tell by my Paint-drawn stick figures, the top ad is an Obama support ad. The lower one is John Cleese in his classic Basil Fawlty goosestep from the episode centering around German visitors to Fawlty Towers. The ad is hocking tee shirts.

Well, it struck me yesterday that the juxtaposition of these two ads is a subliminal prophecy of what this political messiah will institute here in AmeriKa with goose stepping as part of his Socialist regime. (For those of you unfamiliar with history, "Nazi" was short for the National SOCIALIST Party in Germany under Hitler.) Interestingly, too, is that George Handel was born in Germany, but spent most of his adult life in England in the providence of the Lord he loved so dearly. There is no evidence that Herr Handel ever visited Torquay and stayed at Fawlty Towers...which presumably would have been run by Basil's great-great-great grandfather or so...but if he had, word probably would have been, "Don't Mention The War!"
Got Comedic Conspiracy Theory?

#246: Connection Interruption

This morning, even in the Wee Hours, stinking Facebook just did NOT want to cooperate with my addictive personality!! ;p I'm convinced that the folks who designed the thing were channeling the karma of the goonballs who came up with The Expressway in Philly that was obsolete for traffic quantity about 15 minutes after the last bit of blacktop was placed on the ground and smoothed out! Actually, I think "Expressway" has taken on a new meaning because there are more and more times that the poor folks who travel it are on the Parking Way "Expresswaying" themselves in less than Biblical language!! And I believe some of the hand gestures exchanged show the ever growing Global Village of understandable expressions to boot!

Well, that handy dandy little sign that frequently pops up right at the most critical moment when I'm about to swing my Eleven Blade or fire off my Grenade Launcher makes a spiritual point for me today. (You figgered this was comin' dintcha?!!) "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading" and "The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again." SHEEESH! ;P

Another Connection goes like this: 'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.' (Jeremiah 33:3) Give it a whirl, folks, and get back to me with the results. Oh, yeah...Acts 2:21, 'And it shall be, that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved' might be another Connection you want to try?
Got curiosity?

#245: God's Mobile Homes

Back in 32A.D., September 10 was the Feast of Tabernacles according to The One Year Book of Christian History. (You mean you aint gone out and bought your own copy yet?!) ;p
The Tabernacle was God's original Traveling Tent Show in which He met with Israel on their wanderings in the desert. His Presence would come down and fill the place with smoke (I think He was smoking a primo ceegah, but, hey, that's just my opinion) and His glory would be on display to the whole group.
In Ezekiel 36:26, 27 He declares, "Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances."

Sooooooo...if you are a born again Christian, walking around with God's Holy Spirit within you, you are, in fact, one of God's Mobile Homes!
Got welcome mat so those around you can see His Glory?!!

#244: 137 A..Q. and My Aura

1 Corinthians 8:1 says, "Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies." I am living proof of the truth of that text when I get to pontificating on whatever subject grabs my attention; except maybe when my spiritual gift of encouragement kicks in and I'm lauding the praise of the Lord.
Maybe the problem is my aura, which is described by yet another quiz as "...purple. You're eccentric with your style and do not like to conform. You seek great things and significance in life and are a natural born leader." Sounds like all the arrogance any one person could need.

This morning I managed to take one of those Facebook I.Q. tests, got irritated with all the ads and sign-ups-or-nots at the end of the deal, and just hit the little "x marks the spot" at the upper right hand corner to lose it. (Would that mean my purple aura was fading or getting deeper purple?) Well, whoever's responsible for the quiz was kind enough (or evil enough, not sure which) to email me the results. I then Googled "Intelligence Quotient" to see what the standards were against which I was compared. My next question is, if I'm so intellectually superior, howcome I take personality- and supposed-intelligence tests on Facebook?! By so doing, how many points should I be docked for the score?! Who the heck set the point value anyway?! How dumb CAN I be?...Gimme a number to shoot for since I strive for excellence in everything! ;p

Well, I think we need a change in our lettering scheme. I.Q. for Intelligence Quotient should be changed to A. Q. for Arrogance Quotient so it has a Biblical foundation on which to build. Considering I'm only using 10% of my brain to achieve a 137, should I REALLY be a 1,370? Guess I'll have to wait "until that Day" to get the other 90% in gear when the Lord places me in His Presence.
Got anticipation?

#243: Silviculturist Bonzai

Today's NASB Daily Scripture Verse application on Facebook, Luke 21:29-33, reminded me of a word I learned yesterday. "Then He told them a parable: 'Behold the fig tree and all the trees; as soon as they put forth leaves, you see it and know for yourselves that summer is now near. 'So you also, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near. 'Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place. 'Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away."

The word I learned while reading Mr. Adams's Last Crusade by Joseph Wheelan was silviculturist, someone who is involved with planting forests. This describes one of the hobbies of President John Quincy Adams who was also a devout Christian from his youth up. Why do I mention this in conjunction with the term bonzai? Well, just bragging, actually. Back in 1986 I began my silviculturist career here at Camp Cornelius with the Chinese Lacy Leaf Red Maple pictured above on the far left and have added about 100 trees to the campus, 65 or so of which are still growing. Granted, this is not exactly a forest, since they're planted strategically over roughly 17 acres, but hey, this is not exactly an exact blogsite, now is it, sometimes!!

The Bonzai part is adequately covered in my posts regarding the Feng Shui of this place (#160, #161, #177) in which I describe pruning and other things. Martin Luther was once asked what he'd do if he learned it was his last day on earth. He said he'd plant a tree. Guess our Father, the Vinedresser, has passed along part of His Image to us dirt people, hunh? Ya know, it seems there's a passage in Isaiah that talks of His people being a forest of oaks (Isaiah 61:1-3 is the reference, now that I've checked Bible Works and Google)...guess the Lord's the original silvicuturist, both with the trees and with His chosen ones. To quote a picture I've seen, "Bloom where you're planted!"
Got leaves and fruit? (cf. John 15:16)

#242: Happy Birthday Good Queen Bess

On this very day in 1533, Anne Boleyn, a young Christian who got pregnant before she actually married Henry VIII, gave birth to baby Elizabeth, who would later become Elizabeth I, Queen of England. Not only was she, too, a Christian in the born again sense as her writings clearly indicate, but the PBS series starring Glenda Jackson is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!! I've seen it nine times so far with Audio Visual Man.

In fact, if it wasn't Jonny Two Lips' (one of my three Elfsons) twenty-first birthday, I'd try to convince AVMan to start the series again tonight just to honor HRM who is now among the great cloud of witnesses spoken of in Hebrews 12:1, "Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Actually, be encouraged by that verse and I don't need to say any more!
Got comments, now that I've activated them?

#241: Palindrome Name and Other Notions

I knew there had to be some deal I could run using Palin as part of a word, so Dictionary.com bailed me out again. A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same backwards or forwards...like Madam I'm Adam or BOB! ;p

So, whatdja think of Sister Sarah's talk last night? For those of you not my Friend on Facebook, my status remark is this: "Bob wonders, If hockey moms and pit bulls only differ because of lipstick, exactly what shade does the dog wear?"

When the Governor of Hawaii pointed out that Sarah Palin had more executive experience than either Barracks or Bidentime, I pointed out to Radio Man that she ALSO has more executive experience than The John, who, like the other two, has done NO time as a CEO of anything. Just thought I'd note that for the record and that it might come back to bite them and us.

Oh, as for voting this November. I can't decide if Obomber & Bidentime or Mc-Cain and She's Able will produce the much needed Persecution of the American Church faster. On the one hand, Barracks and Company will give it a good run, based on their godless way of looking at the world through Hate Speech legislation, abortion support, and other anti-Christian stuff, but on the other hand, having an ex-Fellowship of Christian Athletes lady as Second in Command might just cause the opposition to turn up the heat from knee jerk reaction in order to prevent any good coming to this land.

Wonder what the Lord's got up the sleeve of his perfectly white Robe? (cf. Daniel 2 for the answer)

#240: Pining Away

Yeah, I'm crankin' myself into semi-deafness with Jesus Jam music on my computer. Well, this morning I cut down a whole LOAD of dead pine limbs...hence today's title. Well, the spiritualizing of this whole deal boils down to John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit."

I guess that make me the pinedresser? OOORAH!
Gotta get back outside and clean up my mess and soak up some of the fabulous autumn the Lord is giving us today here at Camp Cornelius!

#239: Jesus Wasn't Joking Day

One thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight years ago to the day (thank you, Frodo), September 2, 70A.D., the siege of Jerusalem ended with the total destruction of The Temple there, not to mention the loss of about one million Jewish lives; which would put it at about one sixth of The Holocaust's numbers in approximately a 6-month siege.

I remember reading years ago,"back in the day" (thanks, young'uns) when I read through the Bible once a year using the Navigators' Daily Walk, that in order to fulfill His prophecy that "no stone would remain on another," the gold which melted down into the foundations of the Temple by the fire that raged in it caused Roman soldiers to literally remove every stone in order to be sure they got all the booty.

I just found out between Google and Bible Works that this prediction is in the Thirteenth Chapter of Mark. Hmmm...kind of an unlucky number, I guess. Oh, on the other hand, it also predicts that the Gospel will be preached to all nations...definitely good news. On the other hand, it says that a Tribulation will occur the likes of which have not been seen...bummer. On the other hand, (thanks Rev Tevye) those days will be shortened for God's Elect...good news mixed with the reality that they go through the Tribulation, not get raptured out of it. On the other hand, is that a Fiddler I hear on my Roof?

#238: Polish Invasions

Back in 1939, Adolf Hitler started World War II on this very day (69 years to the day, to put it the way Frodo would in Lord of the Rings) by invading Poland. Now, I've been trying to work my way through Operation World, tearing down strongholds as I go, but this morning's coincidence was way too providential! Yeah, the entry for September 18-19 is Poland, but since I'm not holding to any real schedule, I "invaded" it by prayer along with several surrounding nations in order to tear down Satan's strongholds in that region. Why do I mention this? I guess it's the Holy Spirit's way of goosing you two who are reading this to do likewise...OK, so sue me for being a mystic.

I'm also reading Mr. Adams's Last Crusade by Joseph Wheelan, about John Quincy Adams; which talks of his first encounter with slavery. As a devout Christian, he battled slavery when he was a Congressman in the 1820s and 30s after being President. (A good depiction of him is in the movie, "Amistad," with Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams.) "From Poland, fourteen- year-old Adams wrote to his father, 'All the Farmers are in the most abject slavery; they are bought and sold like so many beasts, and are sometimes even chang'd for dogs or horses. Their masters have even the right of life and death over them, and if they kill one of them they are only obliged to pay a trifling fine.'"

Acts 26:18 is a great verse to turn into a specific prayer request for people in Satan's captivity:
"Open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, in order that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me."
Got folks for whom you can pray?

Source: Wheelan, Joseph. Mr. Adams's Last Crusade. Public Affairs, Perseus Book Group, 2008.