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National Assistance

National Assistance, this seems to be the catch phrase of the year. Every news cast talks about "bailouts". Leaving us wondering about where all of the money will come from. We have been hearing the "Trillion" word a lot lately. So much so that we barely blink anymore. But how much is a trillion dollars? I found this information by doing a Google search and clicked on the first entry on the list: "What's a trillion dollars? A trillion dollars = $1,000,000,000,000.That's 12 zeroes to the left of the decimal point. A trillion is a million million dollars. The U.S. government spends more than the entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Australia, China and Spain combined. If you laid one dollar bills end to end, you could make a chain that stretches from earth to the moon and back again 200 times before you ran out of dollar bills! One trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a military jet flying at the speed of so...

Thanksgiving

Psalm 100 A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing . Know ye that the LORD he is God : it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving , and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name . For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. Have you ever noticed how many commands are given in this lovely and short Psalm. Each are in italics above. We had over 40 friends at our annual TG BMM get-together. We sang and shared blessing of the past year. Uncle Marv Fray is shown sharing in the pic. He and his wife Diane had a tremendous influence on several of our lives.