>>1756273 (last bread)
God bless you and wife - she's an "Autist" you know. Please thank her and ask her to contribute more often.
>This board speaks to you in mysterious ways.
>Indeed
Psalm 107: some relevant excerpts
>https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+107&version=KJV
107 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; Iron makes STEEL
13 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
<14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
19 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great __water__s;
24 These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the __storm__y wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
28 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Remember the painting in NK?
33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the __water__springs into dry ground;
34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into __water__springs.
36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.