Trish

Aren’t you glad we know the creator? On a clear night when the worlds circumstances are perfect to look up and see this. ?Stars are cosmic energy engines that produce heat, light, ultraviolet rays, x-rays, and other forms of radiation. They are composed largely of gas and plasma, a superheated state of matter composed of subatomic particles. Though the most familiar star, our own sun, stands alone, about three of every four stars exist as part of a binary system containing two mutually orbiting stars. Well the number of stars would be staggering. Our universe likely contains more than 100 billion galaxies, and each of those galaxies may have more than 100 billion stars. But this report is by NASA and we can wait for Jehovah to tell us about the heavens. Yet on a clear, dark night Earth’s sky reveals only about 3,000 stars to the naked eye is this system. Humans of many cultures have charted the heavens by these stars. Some stars have always stood out from the rest. Their brightness is a factor of how much energy they put out, which is called their luminosity, and also how far away from Earth they are. Stars in the heavens may also appear to be different colors because their temperatures are not all the same. Hot stars are white or blue, whereas cooler stars appear to have orange or red hues. Stars may occur in many sizes, which are classified in a range from dwarfs to supergiants. Supergiants may have radii a thousand times larger than that of our own sun. There’s only one way to find out how accurate these words are. I know Jehovah is excited to tell us also!
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Dear JTR,
I have looked forward to your comments, and I am sorry to have you leave.  You have been the spice in the soup, so to speak.  Always remember James 1:17,  Jehovah in his loving kindness has given us the truth, the most perfect gift.  Stay well dear brother.  You will be missed.

I started with the pink one at the top...:0)  Some of those songbooks I have never seen.  

"You don't go to church in a Kingdom Hall" was stated during the public talk yesterday. The speaker then elaborated that "people who go to church, go to fulfill a spiritual obligation. Those coming to the kingdom hall are coming to learn."

I just found this, and I feel like I'm losing a friend. A friend I never met, that is, and a friend with whom I probably disagree with on more subjects than I can remember right now  Forums aren't the same as "real-life" congregations, and friends on forums aren't the same as friends in "real life" either. Still, it's a bit like when one of your favorite elders steps down or moves away.
There is something liberating about being free to speak about whatever we find interesting. The freedom of speech that you, JTR, have enjoyed here was a true achievement. I'm sure it turned away a lot of friends here (I know the feeling) but it also made some points that will forever be remembered for good.
Thanks for what you've done. I hope I'm still here when and if you decide to find your way back for some additional rounds. I doubt you've run out of ammunition.
 

ALL  OUR   *S O N G B O O K S*.....
Which *songbook* did you start out using  -  or  when  you  got  baptized ?
 

Please  tell  me,  if  you  all  like  my  true  stories....   then  I  will  post  more  -  also  in  German  I  posted  some  ;o)

Amazing True Story of a Mother......  Mom's love is great ❤
When Carolyn Isbister put her 20oz baby on her chest for a cuddle, she thought
that it would be the only chance she would ever have to hold her.
Doctors had told the parents that baby Rachel only had only minutes to live because her heart was beating once every ten seconds and she was not breathing. Isbister remembers:
I didn’t want her to die being cold. So I lifted her out of her blanket
and put her against my skin to warm her up. Her feet were so cold. It was the only cuddle I was going to have with her, so I wanted to remember the moment.” Then something remarkable happened.  ;o)

The warmth of her mother’s skin kick started Rachael’s heart into beating properly, which allowed her to take little breaths of her own. We couldn’t believe it – and neither could the doctors. She let out a tiny cry.
The doctors came in and said there was still no hope – but I wasn’t
letting go of her. We had her blessed by the hospital chaplain,
and waited for her to slip away. But she still hung on.
And then amazingly the pink color began to return to her cheeks. She literally was turning from gray to pink before our eyes, and she began to warm up too. The sad part is that when the baby
was born, doctors took one look at her and said ‘no’.
They didn’t even try to help her with her breathing as they said it
would just prolong her dying. Everyone just gave up on her,” her
mom remembered. At 24 weeks a womb infection had led to her premature labor and birth and Isbister (who also has two children Samuel, 10, and Kirsten, 8 ) said, “We were terrified we were
going to lose her. I had suffered three miscarriages before, so we
didn’t think there was much hope.” When Rachael was born she was grey and lifeless. Ian Laing, a consultant neonatologist at the hospital, said: “All the signs were that the little one was not going to make it and we took the decision to let mum have a cuddle as it was all we could do. Two hours later the wee thing was crying. This is indeed a miracle baby and I have seen nothing like it
in my 27 years of practice. I have not the slightest doubt that mother’s love saved her daughter.”
Rachael was moved onto a ventilator where she continued to
make steady progress and was tube and syringe fed her mother’s
pumped breastmilk. Isbister said, “The doctors said, that she had proved she was a fighter and that she now deserved some intensive care as there was some hope.
She had done it all on her own – without any medical intervention or drugs. She had clung on to life –
and it was all because of that cuddle. It had warmed up her body and regulated her heart and breathing enough for her to start fighting. At 5 weeks she was taken off the ventilator and began breastfeeding on her own.  At four months Rachel
went home with her parents, weighing 8lbs – the same as any
other healthy newborn. Because Rachel had suffered from a lack of
oxygen doctors said there was a high risk of damage to her brain.
But a scan showed no evidence of any problems and today Rachel is on par with
her peers. Rachel’s mom tells us, “She is doing so well. When we brought her home,
the doctors told us that she was a remarkable little girl. And most of all,
she just loves her cuddles. She will sleep for hours, just curled into my chest. It was
that first cuddle which saved her life – and I’m just so glad I trusted my instinct
and picked her up when I did. Otherwise she wouldn’t be here today.” ❤
 

Touching story!

I speak German and a form of Dutch.  Most Germans and Dutch persons are multi-linguists... so I think it is better to learn one of the more rare languages so that one can assist those with little access to our literature.  I am meeting many Kurds in the field (which is a very distant cousin of Persian).   I discovered there is only one translation of the new testament in Kurdish and it is not a very good one.... so I have been looking forward to getting one from our organization.