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Hi dear brother Sharing a talk with you. Hope it soothes your heart. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YX2ehl03XMMIkBJx3wsFT38BBJW5n-ce Jesus once said It has been accomplished John 19:30 Can you say that. Yes. He had a purpose. And he accomplished it. What is our purpose brother. After learning so much from God's word we now have the purpose to encourage our brothers and sisters which you are doing excellently. So feel happy for your achievements. How many hearts you have touched.. You have no idea brother. Your views are shared to many. Many is a countless word. So you have brought countless happiness. So be delighted. And carry on the fight with a smile For a little while And the good God has promised That He will be with you every mile. The one who seperated the red sea Will enable for you His glories to see the One who extended life for some one less ( the widows son) Will He not Bless the blessed ( you) So have full faith And give Him time to show his might Until then you can throw all your burdens at him and wait.. not with a sighing ❤️ But with a clear mind and a determined heart.. Agape. Dear brother.

$6.40 yesterday at an Arco in SoCal for the regular 87 Octane. And Arco is usually a way cheaper place to fill up. Good thing wifey's car is a hybrid, but even then 😵‍💫

I also just let our body know that I was testing it. This was a while back and they all stayed away from it till I felt that it seemed pretty stable. Now just about all of them have it and it's been working fine. I also prefer NW scheduler on Windows, as you can still do so much more with it. But I agree the NWS mobile is good if you don't have a PC with you and you need to make a change.

Tim’s thought immediately made me picture something we recently considered in the Congregation Bible Study—Jacob’s dream of the stairway reaching from earth to heaven. “There were God’s angels ascending and descending on it.” — Genesis 28:12. That picture becomes even more beautiful when placed alongside Peter’s statement: “Into these very things, angels are desiring to peer.” — 1 Peter 1:12. But Jacob’s vision adds another thought. The angels were not simply standing in heaven looking down. They were ascending and descending. Jehovah kept sending them back. That tells us something not only about the angels’ interest in us, but about Jehovah’s interest in us. What are they seeing when they come? Jehovah supporting someone who is exhausted. Jehovah forgiving someone who has stumbled. Jehovah strengthening someone who thinks he cannot take another step. Jehovah patiently helping one of his servants endure something an angel has never personally experienced and can not. And then, back up the stairway they go. Perhaps having learned something more about their Father. More about us. And then Jehovah sends them back again. Tim asked what the angels might be learning about Jehovah while watching what we are going through. Jacob’s stairway makes me wonder something else: What does it tell us about Jehovah that he keeps sending them back down? Thanks for sharing Tim. Often thinking of you two. Keeping you in our prayers. That's another thing. We see you. We hear you. We know your plight. We take action on your behalf to the highest authority. You are not alone. She is not alone. We are with you. And we're begging Jehovah to continue to care for you. I share this on behalf of us - both my wife and myself, and no doubt all of the friends that have been following your experience.

I should mention (in case you didn't read the README): You will need to enable this for the RTF/ePUB/etc. files to appear in your vault:

I wonder if this means that nws mobile will replace nws desktop even for the Windows version in the future?

Instead of giggling every time you accidentally make eye contact, try using the publications on dating and marriage to start productive conversations about compatibility and readiness for marriage. Have a trusted third party hold you accountable and make sure you are examining yourself and the other person instead of wearing rose-colored glasses.

If you are stressed this day, week, year, take the opportunity to rely more on Jehovah. These could be the trials that help to strengthen you with an eye to surviving the GT. Every test is an opportunity.

I use Claude almost on a daily basis to help build apps for quality-of-life improvements. One of the apps I created is a media player for WOL that plays both English and Spanish audio. It first plays the English audio for a specific paragraph, sentence, or verse, and then plays it in Spanish, almost as if it were being translated in real time. This is helping me learn the English theocratic vocabulary, because knowing how to speak English and understanding the theocratic vocabulary are very different. I also use Siri AI to revise and edit my text. At times, I use ChatGPT for examples and/or illustrations.

Attached is an example

Brother, I’ve been enjoying using Traverture! I used it for my CO notes and it was amazing, as I no longer miss reading the scriptures the speaker mentioned because I can just click on the scripture and read it directly in Obsidian! I would love to share as well that I forked the Traverture code and modified it a bit. I removed the original sidebar feature and replaced it with a view similar to JWL. Using your code as a base, I made it so the sidebar displays the scripture and the study note (if any). I also added the functionality of displaying the English study note if the source language doesn't have that study note available. Additionally, it displays all of the references for that selected scripture, split up into sections (Study Note, Study Guide, Publication Index 85-present, and 50-85). On top of that, I added a search bar to the sidebar in case I am looking for a specific word inside the references. This has helped me look at all of the references for a scripture at once without having to click them one by one in WOL.

The secret person of the heart. - I suppose this is the inner person that we are , who we are at the very core.. That is so hard to get to know, sometimes we don’t even know ourselves until a new environment tests us. If we are courting a potential marriage mate all we can do is to take time , try and see him/her in different situations and talk about everything. Even then experienced people will tell you that you learn more about your mate after the wedding than before!

Legened! Ive loved using your obsidian plugins bro!

ElevenLabs_video_gemini-omni-flash-1-1-extend_Create a longer_2026-09-26T11_44_13.mp4 THIS is the closest thing I could find to express my overwhelming awe at this moment...and though I PROMISE I will explain in a moment...please, please just take a moment to sit back, grab your favorite beverage...and join me as I take you on a gentle meander down my path of thought...that way each of you can see what led me to this point...and why it has me sitting here in a personal moment of the deepest sense of quiet contemplation that I have personally experienced in quite some time. As most of you are well aware, my heart aches with the physical absence of my dear wife. Every single day I struggle with this...not a moment goes by that I don't miss her deeply, that I don't long to come home and find her sitting curled up on the couch, her favorite blanket draped over her legs as she delves into a Watchtower study...or just reading her favorite magazine. Some days I struggle to breathe when I think about it too much...other days I am kept so busy I go hours without even really being conscious that she is still gone...until one tiny thing happens that instantly reawakens the pain...like a bad tooth being lit up in pain at the mere touch of something ice cold. I am slowly beginning to come back to life spiritually...that spark is buried too deeply inside me to ever really go out...but it's happening in fits and starts...my brain tells me that I NEED to get going...my heart nudges me towards Jehovah...but sometimes, like the coward I am...I run back and hide...waiting for the storm to blow over, waiting for the pain to subside. I WANT to tell the friends what I am going through...but sometimes I don't have fancy explanations...sometimes I open my mouth and there simply ARE no words...only Jehovah's holy spirit can interpret what's happening inside me. In the midst of all of this...I started a personal study project. I wasn't looking for anything profound...I wasn't even looking for anything in particular. I...I was simply trying to breathe again spiritually. I don't even remember HOW I ended up turning to this verse...but once I had read it...I couldn't stop thinking about it...a tiny little question popping up over and over again in the back of my mind...like popcorn kernels popping in an iron skillet...it kept bursting into life, over and over again until I simply had to address it. The verse? 1 Corinthians 4:9; "For it seems to me that God has put us the apostles last on exhibition as men condemned to death, because we have become a theatrical spectacle to the world, and to angels and to men." A theatrical spectacle...my my, do I ever feel like that now! But the part that captivated me...the part that kept eating at me was simply three little words, "And to angels". Of course, I KNOW the angels are interested in us: 1 Peter 1:12 makes that crystal clear, "Into these very things, angels are desiring to peer." So of COURSE they want to know what's happening, of COURSE they have an avid, even an INTENSE interest in what's going on here on Earth. But...but WHY?? I mean...beyond the obvious! Beyond the reasons we so often hear at the meetings..."They love us, they are part of Jehovah's heavenly organization"...beyond the hundred other reasons I could think of off hand...the one thought that kept creeping back into my head, over and over again was this: WHY ME??? Why Tim? Why specifically me?? What have I ever done to draw their attention?? (Besides be a total screw up and a perfect example of what NOT to do as a human) Like...why ME? So, as always...I hopped on my computer and started digging, rooting around on JW Online Library, fueled off coffee and hot cinnamon buns. And friends...what I saw shocked me...it stunned me in a way I haven't been in years...and THAT is why I'm writing this post. NOW, to explain the short video at the beginning of this post. After that question refused to leave my brain, I needed a break. I don't WHY I typed this into the search bar of my search engine...but I just did: "WHY ME??" I started idly scrolling through a ton of meme's and songs and other things all dealing with the subject...and somehow I ended up clicking on this picture...a picture like this one: Instantly, I was captivated...and not just because it LOOKED cool...but because it made me think of Jehovah for some weird reason...like raw power under containment. So, I clicked on it...started doing some quick research on the scientific name "Lichtenberg figure"...and started making sudden links in my mind regarding my original question! Friends, what you saw in that video wasn’t just “a cool science thing.” It’s called captured lightning...a moment when raw electrical power is forced into a block of clear acrylic and then released all at once. In a single instant, the electricity tears through the material in thousands of tiny little branching paths…and then freezes there forever! But friends, here's the crazy part: Every single pattern is completely unique. The electricity doesn’t change...the laws behind it don’t change...and the power itself doesn’t change. But the way that power expresses itself...the exact branching pattern it carves...depends entirely on the conditions it encounters in that one critical moment of time! When I learned that… something inside me suddenly went very silent and still. Because suddenly, I realized this strange little lightning sculpture was the closest physical thing I had ever seen to what the Scriptures describe angels watching. Want me to back that up from our own publications? Here's what I found, what I have been meditating on for the past week: "Then how is it that God makes known his greatly diversified wisdom through the congregation? In that what God does by, for and with this congregation serves as an illustration of the greatly diversified wisdom of God. This sacred secret is something for the angels to view with admiration and amazement, and so it can be said that through it these angelic creatures get to see the greatly diversified wisdom of God as they had not known it before." (Italics my own) Questions From Readers — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY Ready for another one? The one that actually blew my mind? Here you go: WHY ANGELS ARE INTERESTED 11. According to 1 Peter 1:12, how intense is the interest of the angels in the divine arrangement for salvation? 11 The example of the angels should also serve to encourage us to do our utmost to remain in God’s favor. Though having no personal need for the divine arrangement of salvation, faithful angels take a real interest in the outworking of God’s grand purpose for humankind. The apostle Peter wrote: “Into these very things [that occupied the attention of the Hebrew prophets] angels are desiring to peer.” (1 Peter 1:12) Yes, before the coming of Jesus Christ to this earth, the angels were desirous of knowing more about Christ’s sufferings, the “glories to follow these” and the impact of the “good news” on humankind. The apostle Peter could speak of them as “desiring to peer” into these matters. In the original Greek, the expression “to peer” suggests a stooping down with a view to scrutinizing an object more closely. But why were the angels so keenly interested in making a careful examination of Jehovah God’s revelation about salvation? As perfect spirit persons, why should the provisions for sinful, earthly humans particularly concern them? 12, 13. How might we explain the great interest of the angels in the salvation of mankind? 12 Since the angels are not all-knowing, they doubtless increase their knowledge by studiously considering God’s dealings and revelations. The arrangement for the redemption of the human race truly furnished a marvelous example of Jehovah’s love, justice, mercy and wisdom. Hence, by occupying themselves with gaining greater understanding of Jehovah’s arrangement for saving sinful mankind, the angels would come to appreciate their heavenly Father even more. They would learn things about his personality and ways that could not be discerned from a study or an examination of any other development in the universe.—Compare Ephesians 3:8-10. Encouraging Aid to Stick to Our Decision — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY Do you SEE that last line?? "They would learn things about his personality and ways that could not be discerned from a study or an examination of any other development in the universe." That...that is quite literally giving me chills...still, at this very second!! Angels who saw the creation of the earth, of mankind...angels who have been with Jehovah for untold millions of years...and yet here they are...ACTIVELY LEARNING brand new things about Jehovah's "personality and ways"...from the way that he deals with OUR unique situation. I won't go any further with this post...I don't need to. Jehovah answered my question in a way I didn't expect...and even though there are many other things at play in my particular situation...I cannot help but wonder: What NEW THINGS are those angels learning about Jehovah right now as my wife and I go through our situation? And I will leave each of you with the same thought: What brand new aspects of Jehovah's personality are those angels learning from Jehovah about what YOU'RE going through...because YOU are the lightning that angels watch!

Thanks, I just downloaded it and will try it out soon 😁👍

As I mentioned, the output is only as good as the original. PDFs in general are very touch-and-go: they are designed for displaying uniformly across devices and platforms, and it's hard to reconstruct the source. To illustrate: a PDF is like a piece of wooden furniture - it looks good as the finished product, but it's almost impossible to deconstruct it back into the original tree. Because of this, I may even remove support for PDF documents, since very few of them are "properly" constructed.

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Hi Eryk, Thanks for this new plugin! I tried your example. I downloaded the 2026 Program but in PDF But the output was in another language and had mistakes in formatting. Maybe PDF does not work so well since it has pictures?

Can I come live with you and man-child for a time, times and half a time?

In cart work I look forward to being in a park with a 1/4 mile walking path. People bring their dogs. I got to love up on Freddy the dachshund today. Sweet baby.

I hesitate to call anyone a fun guy, I never know what they will think ...

I would like to make available another Obsidian plugin: mu/TEX/tum This is to allow easy importing (with conversion to Markdown) of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF documents. How this may be useful to this audience? For example, the assembly/convention programs can be downloaded from jw.org in RTF (Rich Text Format): You will just need to put the RTF file (or whatever file you want to import/convert) into your Obsidian vault. Right-click it there to have to option to import: And it will generate a note like the one below, wherere you can add your notes: If you also have the tra.VER:ture plugin, your scriptures will be auto-linked (and colored to your liking) - as you can see above. Of course, you can import/convert all kinds of documents. Many of our publications are available as ePub archives, for example. Keep in mind that the conversion is only as good as the original - and with the limitations of Markdown :-) Also, note that if you try to import PDFs, these must be text-based only; scanned or image-only PDFs will not work, as this would require OCR. More information in the GitHub repo or the Obsidian Community directory. As always, feel free to ask questions here, or report issues/suggestions in the repo.