Regarding Angels

Thoughts of the day

Angels a war in heaven the book of revelations

it talks about the Angels jealousy over the creation called Man who was created in God's image.

This is important the Devil got to believe That Man wrongfully taking over the number one position in in God's eye.  But let's take a step back and look at a Guardian Angel.

A Guardian Angel is given a new human soul watch and tend for. Keep in mind this soul was formed in the image of God. And has the ability to receive the Holy Spirit, the essence of Christ, through baptism and communion.  The Angels are classified into only a few categories. But the foremost of them are the few named Archangels. The Archangels generally speaking are responsible to God for their missions. 

A Guardian Angel that is successful in getting his charge baptized is now tending a part of God. Doesn't this make all of our Guardian Angels also Archangels. This is not demoting the Angels main job was to praise God. But in fact elevate most of the heavenly host to actively caring for directly God.  And the human soul that has listened and learned to love a special friend that God has us to have I am sure will raise the Angel up in praise and glory of God in giving thanks to the wonders and mysteries of this special part of God's love.

The fact of our free will making it a very hard job for our Guardian Angel to help us do the simple thing free will is meant to be used for.  Given back to God and his glory and honor forever.

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Matt Fortin in a rare solo performance "Whatever Whenever"

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Gone Fishing again

A Recently Spotted Bumper Sticker:

"Be ye fishers of men -- you catch them and He'll clean them."

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Sellit | New Traffic. Fresh Approach.

via sellit.com

Like the first one reminds me of a drafting problem from high school.

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don't worry bout marc have a good time

Music with Marc Smason  -  Late Summer     www.marcsmason.com

I've have a bad cold 8 days & doubt that I can make Poggie tomorrow.  Joanne & the boys will, however, kick some serious ass.

      Jammin’ in the Junction!                                                                                                                                                                                            8/31 & 1^st & 3^rd Mondays  9 pm      Better World       diva, Joanne Klein     Marc Smason    Brian Flanagan     Ken Strong         Chris Jimenez    You                2^nd & 4^th Mondays   9 pm     Falingo Machaz    Marc Smason     Orrin Sand    Brian Flanagan     Ken Strong    Pavel Shepp    You            Poggie Tavern     4717 California S.W.    206 937-2165  Jam Session!

        Saturday    September 5       11:15 am – 2 pm    the Dixie Kings     *Issaquah Farmers Market    Pickering Barn   1730 10^th N.W. – Issaquah   9 am – 2 pm   http://www.ci.issaquah.wa.us/Page.asp?NavID=541

       Monday    September 7 – Labor Day    6:30 – 7:30 pm    Yellow Hat Band   *Bumbershoot    Jason Webley Parade     www.bumbershoot.org

       Friday     September 11     7 – 9:30 pm     Yellow Hat Band Fun Raiser for Trip back east to Honkfest    *Laughing Ladies Café    17551 15^th N.E. – Shoreline    206 362-2026      www.laughingladiescafe.com    www.honkfest.org    discounts on food/drink   special guests!

       Saturday    September 12      Yellow Hat Band      *Burien’s Lantern Festival - Burien Town Square Park   152nd & 5th St SW – Burien (duh..)     206 988-3700     http://www.burienwa.gov/glow  

       Wednesday    September 16      7 – 9 pm       the Free World    Rosalynn DeRoos – clarinet     Marc Smason  - trombone/vox     Dalton Davis - percussion       *Capitol Music Center     1032 N.E. 65^th     206 622-0171   www.capitolmusiccenter.com

       Thursday     September 17     7 – 9 pm    Alfonse Somebody & the Jr. Detectives     *Makeda Coffee     153 N. 78^th (@ Greenwood)       206 782-1489    www.makedacoffee.com

       Friday    September 18      8 pm     David Haney    Julian Priester     the Free World       *The Chapel – Good Shepherd Center     Sunnyside N. & N. 50^th     $5 - 15   http://nseq.blogspot.com/

Seattle WA unless otherwise noted        * all ages        no cover unless noted       removal upon request, of course.                                                                           CDs, available - Hit reply or www.cdbaby.com  or  call  206 760-1764      “Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking.” Antonio Machado     Make art, not war

 

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Martyrdom of John the Baptist

Martyrdom of John the Baptist

The drunken oath of a king with a shallow sense of honor, a seductive dance and the hateful heart of a queen combined to bring about the martyrdom of John the Baptist. The greatest of prophets suffered the fate of so many Old Testament prophets before him: rejection and martyrdom. The “voice crying in the desert” did not hesitate to accuse the guilty, did not hesitate to speak the truth. But why? What possesses a man that he would give up his very life?

This great religious reformer was sent by God to prepare the people for the Messiah. His vocation was one of selfless giving. The only power that he claimed was the Spirit of Yahweh. “I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I. I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Matthew 3:11). Scripture tells us that many people followed John looking to him for hope, perhaps in anticipation of some great messianic power. John never allowed himself the false honor of receiving these people for his own glory. He knew his calling was one of preparation. When the time came, he led his disciples to Jesus: “The next day John was there again with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God.’ The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus” (John 1:35-37). It is John the Baptist who has pointed the way to Christ. John’s life and death were a giving over of self for God and other people. His simple style of life was one of complete detachment from earthly possessions. His heart was centered on God and the call that he heard from the Spirit of God speaking to his heart. Confident of God’s grace, he had the courage to speak words of condemnation or repentance, of salvation.

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St. Augustine (354-430)

St. Augustine (354-430)

A Christian at 33, a priest at 36, a bishop at 41: many people are familiar with the biographical sketch of Augustine of Hippo, sinner turned saint. But really to get to know the man is a rewarding experience.

There quickly surfaces the intensity with which he lived his life, whether his path led away from or toward God. The tears of his mother, the instructions of Ambrose and, most of all, God himself speaking to him in the Scriptures redirected Augustine’s love of life to a life of love.

Having been so deeply immersed in creature-pride of life in his early days and having drunk deeply of its bitter dregs, it is not surprising that Augustine should have turned, with a holy fierceness, against the many demon-thrusts rampant in his day. His times were truly decadent—politically, socially, morally. He was both feared and loved, like the Master. The perennial criticism leveled against him: a fundamental rigorism.

In his day, he providentially fulfilled the office of prophet. Like Jeremiah and other greats, he was hard-pressed but could not keep quiet. “I say to myself, I will not mention him,/I will speak in his name no more./But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart,/imprisoned in my bones;/I grow weary holding it in,/I cannot endure it” (Jeremiah 20:9).

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St. Joseph Calasanz (1556-1648)

St. Joseph Calasanz (1556-1648)

From Aragon, where he was born in 1556, to Rome, where he died 92 years later, fortune alternately smiled and frowned on the work of Joseph Calasanz. A priest with university training in canon law and theology, respected for his wisdom and administrative expertise, he put aside his career because he was deeply concerned with the need for education of poor children. When he was unable to get other institutes to undertake this apostolate at Rome, he and several companions personally provided a free school for deprived children. 

So overwhelming was the response that there was a constant need for larger facilities to house their effort. Soon Pope Clement VIII gave support to the school, and this aid continued under Pope Paul V. Other schools were opened; other men were attracted to the work and in 1621 the community (for so the teachers lived) was recognized as a religious community, the Clerks Regular of Religious Schools (Piarists or Scolopi). Not long after, Joseph was appointed superior for life.

A combination of various prejudices and political ambition and maneuvering caused the institute much turmoil. Some did not favor educating the poor, for education would leave the poor dissatisfied with their lowly tasks for society! Others were shocked that some of the Piarists were sent for instruction to Galileo (a friend of Joseph) as superior, thus dividing the members into opposite camps. Repeatedly investigated by papal commissions, Joseph was demoted; when the struggle within the institute persisted, the Piarists were suppressed. Only after Joseph’s death were they formally recognized as a religious community.

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Early Shows this weekend in Auburn and Kent

Phil Hansen is performing at a new venue in Auburn this Saturday.  Auburn Wine and Cavier has recently open ed and asked Phil to perform for their winetasting and dinner audience from 4-7PM.  They are located at 2402 A Street SE in Auburn.  Get off Highway 18 at Auburn way South.  Stay Straqight i block West.  Turn left about 20 blocks and it's on the left.  Come on down it should be nice.

 

Sunday Phil is back at Cutters Point in Covington from 3-5PM.  It's just east off Highway 18 in front of Fred Meyer.  This is a nice quiet venue to play. Come on down, Phhil is incorpoating new original ,material you've not heard.

 

On the "Month at a Glance" just sent The Laughing Ladies Cafe was misnamed Laughing Lady Coffee house.  Aplologies to tyhe crew there.

Thanks Much;

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2009 4rth quarter Schedule

It's been a busy summer for the VZ Valley Boys with a few festivals (including the new Enumclaw Festival), weddings, coffee houses, private parties, and even playing daily at a week long camp in Olympia.  Jette got to tour Finland in July playing at several Finish Folk Festivals.  We thank Gregg Christienson for filling in while Jette was gone.

 

This fall is shaping up with several new venues, a fund raiser, Al and Jette are leaving to go to the IBMA conference in Nashville (that's a really big deal), Sparky is in and out with his covert activities, and Phil is playing weekly somewhere and trying to finish a couple of new books. 

 

We have 2 Saturdays open in November and December.  If your looking for some fun drop us a line.

 

Cassmusic@att.net

 

or call 360-825-5363

 

September Month at a Glance from the Veazie Valley:

 

Gypsy Joe's Jute Box

 

Sept 11 Summit 7-8:30 8:45-10 & 11:15-12:30 Highway 410 Enumclaw

Sept 12 Summit 8:45-10 & 11:15-12:30 Highway 410 Enumclaw

 

 

Phil Hansen solo:

 

Sept 19 Grimaldis 7-9PM  Backside of Gilman Village on Gilman Blvd  Issaquah

Sept 26 Full Circle Farms Carnation WSU Farm tour 11:30Am-3:30Pm  31904 Ne 8 St Carnation

Sept 26 Cutters 7-9Pm 16739 SE 27217551 15 Ave Ne Shoreline Covington

Sept 27 Laughing Lady Coffee House  3-5PM

 

See you Soon;

Phil, Al, Jette, Sparky

The VZ Valley Boys

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mark&kimberlee @ Starbucks new' 15th Avenue Coffee & Tea in Seattle

* Mark Holt & Kimberlee Holt Tully too perform at Starbucks new’ “stealth hot spot”  15^th Avenue Coffee & Tea

 

     brother/sister: Mark Holt & Kimberlee Holt Tully have taken their brand of Blues, Jazz & Americana Roots music too Starbucks Coffee Company Stores in Sun Valley, Idaho & Yakima, Washington.  Mark & Kimberlee  taped “Northwest Today” an  NBC Television Affiliate Morning Live Remote at Starbucks Union Gap, Washington store in December of 2008.

     Mark & Kimberlee are happy too announce they will have the opportunity to bring their sounds too Starbucks new’ 15^th Avenue Coffee & Tea on Capital Hill in Seattle, Washington.

Friday & Saturday October 9^th & 10^th, 2009.  8:00pm

 

·        www.streetlevelcoffee.com

·        www.starbucks.com

 

 

 

·        Mark Holt’s “One Last Dance” is a SoundClick Top 100 Song.

·        www.soundclick.com/markholt

 

 

 

·        Mark Holt is featured on CMT

·        www.cmt.com  search:  mark holt

 

 

 

Subject: pr photo / Mark Holt

 

Mark Holt

Photo courtesy of:  Kyle Mills, the Lewiston Morning Tribune

www.soundclick.com/markholt

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Laughing Ladies

Dear Friends & Patrons, First of all we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for you continued support during this personally and financially trying year. Due to the economic situation we have experienced some difficulty managing our taxes. As a result, we now owe approximately $10,000 (which is not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things). The government has given us a timeline to pay or they will issue a warrant for the money. If they issue a warrant than any available funds we have on that given day will be taken. The money they take will be general funds that we use to pay salaries and buy goods and services. The result of them taking that money will mean that we may not be able to operate. Therefore, we are writing this memo to seek a loan for $10,000. We are able to pay 8% interest over a 12 month period. According to our calculations, the interest paid on this loan would be $438.61. That is not a bad investment. We are also willing to secure the loan with assets from the business if necessary. So if you have the means and the desire to help please contact Angela at 206.362.2026 or 360.280.4994. Thank you in advance. Angela & Ali Remove me from this list

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Dezeenmail #36

issue #36 27/08/09     Hello readers! Alas summer is nearly over but so too, it seems, is the recession… we’ve never been so busy. We have two big filming projects coming up in September plus we’re working on the next phase of Dezeen – more details soon! Meanwhile here’s our pick of stories and comments from Dezeen, plus all the latest jobs and competitions. NB check out this lovely article by Tom Bloxham of Urban Splash about Dezeen. Twitter | Facebook | Dezeenfeed   “Will Prince Charles accept it?”   Probably not, Josh NY. We’ve got the latest images of Renzo Piano’s Shard tower, now under construction in London. 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What would you call....

 A Foul Mouthed Clone being pushed off a bridge?

Warning: Very Bad Pun Inside

A pastor who was badly overworked went to the local medical center and was able to have a clone made. The clone was like the pastor in every respect--except that the clone used extraordinarily foul language. The cloned pastor was exceptionally gifted in many other areas of pastoral work, but finally the complaints about the dirty language were too much.The pastor was not too sure how to get rid of the clone so that it wouldn't look like murder. The best thing, he decided, was to make the clone's death look like an accident. So the pastor lured the clone onto a bridge in the middle of the night and pushed the clone off the bridge.

Unfortunately there was a police officer who happened by at that very moment and arrested the pastor for making an obscene clone fall.

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Howard Dietz

Music lovers should love this one...

Howard Dietz

via Quotes of the Day on 8/9/09

"I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism."

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Walter Bagehot

Without Temptation we would not grow in will.

Walter Bagehot

via Quotes of the Day on 8/13/09

"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."

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Ronald Reagan

I wish it was that simple to get someone to love god....

Ronald Reagan

via Quotes of the Day on 8/19/09

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."

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Leslie Nielsen

AMEN

Leslie Nielsen

via Quotes of the Day on 8/24/09

"Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished."

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Leslie Nielsen

AMEN

Leslie Nielsen

via Quotes of the Day on 8/24/09

"Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished."

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Who

St. Bartholomew

In the New Testament, Bartholomew is mentioned only in the lists of the apostles. 

Some scholars identify him with Nathanael, a man of Cana in Galilee who was summoned to Jesus by Philip.

 Jesus paid him a great compliment: “Here is a true Israelite. There is no duplicity in him” (John 1:47b). When Nathanael asked how Jesus knew him, Jesus said, “I saw you under the fig tree” (John 1:48b). Whatever amazing revelation this involved, it brought Nathanael to exclaim, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel” (John 1:49b). But Jesus countered with, “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this” (John 1:50b).

Nathanael did see greater things. He was one of those to whom Jesus appeared on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias after his resurrection (see John 21:1-14). They had been fishing all night without success. In the morning, they saw someone standing on the shore though no one knew it was Jesus. He told them to cast their net again, and they made so great a catch that they could not haul the net in. Then John cried out to Peter, “It is the Lord.”

When they brought the boat to shore, they found a fire burning, with some fish laid on it and some bread. Jesus asked them to bring some of the fish they had caught, and invited them to come and eat their meal. John relates that although they knew it was Jesus, none of the apostles presumed to inquire who he was. This, John notes, was the third time Jesus appeared to the apostles.

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St. Rose of Lima (1586-1617)

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The first canonized saint of the New World has one characteristic of all saints—the suffering of opposition—and another characteristic which is more for admiration than for imitation—excessive practice of mortification.

She was born to parents of Spanish descent in Lima, Peru, at a time when South America was in its first century of evangelization. She seems to have taken Catherine of Siena as a model, in spite of the objections and ridicule of parents and friends.

The saints have so great a love of God that what seems bizarre to us, and is indeed sometimes imprudent, is simply a logical carrying out of a conviction that anything that might endanger a loving relationship with God must be rooted out. So, because her beauty was so often admired, Rose used to rub her face with pepper to produce disfiguring blotches. Later, she wore a thick circlet of silver on her head, studded on the inside, like a crown of thorns.

When her parents fell into financial trouble, she worked in the garden all day and sewed at night. Ten years of struggle against her parents began when they tried to make Rose marry. They refused to let her enter a convent, and out of obedience she continued her life of penance and solitude at home as a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. So deep was her desire to live the life of Christ that she spent most of her time at home in solitude.

During the last few years of her life, Rose set up a room in the housewhere she cared for homeless children, the elderly and the sick. This was a beginning of social services in Peru. Though secluded in life and activity, she was brought to the attention of Inquisition interrogators, who could only say that she was influenced by grace.

What might have been a merely eccentric life was transfigured from the inside. If we remember some unusual penances, we should also remember the greatest thing about Rose: a love of God so ardent that it withstood ridicule from without, violent temptation and lengthy periods of sickness. When she died at 31, the city turned out for her funeral. Prominent men took turns carrying her coffin.

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