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Tuesday, June 30 God is not unrighteous so as to forget your work and the love you showed for his name by ministering and continuing to minister to the holy ones.—Heb. 6:10. None of us should feel that we are entitled to receive Jehovah’s mercy even if we have spent many years in his service. Of course, Jehovah appreciates our record of faithfulness. He gave us his Son as a free gift, not as payment for services rendered. If we were to claim that we have earned mercy or that we are entitled to special consideration, we would, in effect, be saying that Christ died for nothing. (Compare Galatians 2:21.) The apostle Paul knew that he could not earn God’s favor. Why, then, did he work so hard in Jehovah’s service? Not to prove himself deserving, but to show appreciation for Jehovah’s undeserved kindness. (Eph. 3:7) Like Paul, we continue to serve zealously, not to earn Jehovah’s mercy, but to show appreciation for it. w25.01 27 ¶5-6

Hi Jonathan, Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a thoughtful message. I really appreciate it! To answer your questions: Are notes stored locally or in the cloud? All your notes are stored locally on your device using your browser's built-in storage. Nothing is sent to a server. You own your notes completely. Are notes encrypted and private? Because notes never leave your device, there is no cloud storage involved at all — so privacy isn't a concern in the traditional sense. The app doesn't have access to what you write. Can notes be exported? The app includes a print function for each talk's notes, which you can use to save as a PDF from your browser's print dialog and the app does include a backup feature that lets you export your notes as a file. Will the app be updated for future conventions? Yes, that's the plan. The app is built to be updated each year with the new programme and any improvements gathered from user feedback. On the pricing: You raise a fair point. OneNote, Apple Notes, and Google Keep are all excellent general-purpose tools. The difference here is that the programme is already built in (all three days, every session, with the correct talk titles and scriptures), scripture references are automatically detected and link directly to JW Library, and the whole experience is designed specifically around how a convention flows. To make it affordable for everyone, I offer several licence options, starting at €12 for one device, with family plans of 3, 5, or 10 devices, bringing the cost down to as little as €6 per device. I hope that helps, and I wish you a wonderful convention regardless of what you decide! 😊

Last time I checked, this game has 260 pages

Days are periods of time, both best and last

LOL ... That was legit stuff. If only AI was legit. I saw this article today: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/ford-rehires-experienced-engineers-after-ai-misses-mark

"This is your second violation of using AI on company time. Three violations and we will chop off your thumbs. After the fifth violation we will chop off your toes" - Human (and AI) Resources

It seems like people trust AI as if it actually gives correct answers. WHY???! It is nothing more than a giant search engine. If the internet is wrong (and it often is) this means AI is often wrong - and it is! Here is a nice screen shot I had just this morning - as I find myself often arguing with AI that it's first and second answers are WRONG! My advice - don't stop when you get the answer you WANT. You have to check and make sure the answer is CORRECT.

I typed my original story in my own words. The attachment is the cleaned up version with grammer and wording corrected as per my instruction to ai. Story content is entirely my own.

Tomato_Soup_Grilled_Cheese_Chapter.docx

About 1;year ago I started having dinner parties or evenings with friends and would invite different ones over to share. When I became a widow I hid in the recesses of my mind and only emerged for meetings. It was a lonely year. Then I signed up to pioneer I took to heart our talks concerning we must draw close as a congregation to survive the GT and enjoy beyond. A elder once said, look around you. These will be the faces of the ones that we need to depend on. The ones we must grow close to. The ones if you have a difficulty with you may find yourself in their basement. Then what will you do? Grow close NOW! Don't delay. So I went home and prayed, that night awake in prayer. Trying to realize memories will carry me through but I can't live there. They are meant to visit. To anchor and support but not to live in which I had been doing. Every waking hour was spent looking back, not forward. I've got to break this cycle. I can visit but not stay. So I thought of inviting other widows, singles, divorced and older couples into my home where we could share, learn about each other and what makes them tick. I decided to call these events my BASEMENT Reserve. I want to draw on these good times that I am giving a place for, with the intent that these times we are living and making are what will carry us through. When we see the smiles on the faces of our imprisoned family, or the struggles we all are baring, what is it they are thinking about that is farting them through? Our spiritual heritage definitely. But then I realized some day this will be someone's spiritual heritage too. So hence, my much loved family, how I came up with my title Basement Reserve. From our table to yours. From Jehovah's table to mine. What dishes are you serving that tie those memories to your heart? So if you are looking for a recipe that cuts straight to an ingredient list you won't find it here. You will be bitterly disappointed. But if you want to connect through insight, memories and dinner parties but yet planned, pull up a seat. This will take a while.

Ethics are something sadly missing these days.

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My father, JC Lynn, told a story to many people who would sit with us at our table and eat. Back when food was associated to family and sharing stories. He would tell anyone with an ear about my first day of kindergarten. He relays he brought me home at noon as kindergarten was a half day in the 1960s. He asked me what I learned that day. I told him I learned to make grilled cheese and tomato soup. He said he was skeptical but intrigued . Upon arriving home he took me to the kitchen and said show me what you learned. Without hesitation he would recall I told him to pick me up and put me on the counter top where I began to rummage through the cabinet till I found a can of Campbells tomato soup AND a can of diced tomatoes. I asked him to open them since I had not mastered the complexity of a hand held opener at age 4. (I started school at 4 in September and turned 5 in mid October. He said I told him to bring a dining room chair up to the stove and proceeded to crawl upon it. I dumped the soup and tomatoes into the pit then asked him to bring me some milk, cream preferably if we had it. Which we did. Cream from a bottle delivered weekly to our door. Cream made everything better. Just a well known fact. So I asked for a pinch of 'chicken powder ' since I could not say bullion. And black pepper. Must have. He said that I would stir then taste and smack my lips loudly while he watched in bewilderment. He began to wonder if perhaps I really did learn this culinary act that morning. He says with great pride that was the BEST tomato soup he had ever had to that day. I remember this clearly but wonder if it is an actual memory or just a story told so fondly from a father's memory. But whatever, it is now a firmly established memory of mine. I have since learned to roast tomatoes, a onion, a grated carrot in olive oil and puree for the base. Yes I now call the chicken powder bullion,band top the bowl of tomatoe bisque with homemade croutons and fresh shaved Parmesan but my father still clung to that first bowl of soup as being his favorite.

I see it as a great opportunity for children to be bold and give a great witness just by reading the Bible. Imagine the raised eyebrows when the ten commandments were read from the NWT. Many of the passages in the read list have God's name.

Rewarding children for their chores can help build work ethic.

Just for you to understand my thought process in recording this cake it's all over the place. I have enlisted the help of so to keep me on track. I tell the circumstances surrounding the dish and the emotions connected to it. Which are many. My earliest memories are connected to food. It was not until about 30 years ago it hit hard and clear the connection and how it was woven into my life. I worked at Rader Institute in Tulsa Oklahoma back in 1984..William Rader was the founder. It was a globally recognized eating disorder unit at Doctors Hospital. Sally Jessie Raphael , a well known TV host filmed several patients stories from there. She was popular at the time of Donahue, Ravero, Springer, and other tabloid talk show hosts. A few of the patients stories resonated with me and I began to think how deeply food connects with our personal pain and enjoyment. I did not know the truth at that time and was still some 12 years away from finding it. So settle in, this will take a while.

Check out the resources on jw.org https://www.jw.org/en/search/?q=go+bag

This is ChatGPT's answer: "What you saw is actually pretty common with Android apps that are used for years. Even though the publications and media may not have changed dramatically, JW Library accumulates data over time. Here are the most likely reasons your installation had grown to 2.5 GB: Cached files As publications are updated, the app downloads new versions. Old temporary files and cached data aren't always removed immediately. Over months or years, this cache can become very large. Database growth JW Library stores your: highlights notes bookmarks tags reading history navigation history These databases slowly grow. They're usually not huge by themselves, but they contribute. Old publication versions When publications are revised, Android apps sometimes retain older files until the app decides they're safe to delete. If an update is interrupted or an older version isn't cleaned up properly, duplicate files can remain. Temporary download files Every time you download or update publications, temporary files are created. Occasionally these aren't deleted after the installation completes. Android app storage quirks Choosing "Move to SD card" often moves only part of the app (the APK or some app components). The data directory—which is usually the largest part—often remains on internal storage. That's why moving the app didn't noticeably reduce internal storage. The fact that deleting the app's data reduced it from 2.5 GB to about 500 MB strongly suggests the extra 2 GB was mostly accumulated cache, temporary files, or obsolete publication data rather than your current publications. Is this normal? Yes. Many Android apps gradually accumulate extra storage. Apps that manage lots of downloaded content—like JW Library, streaming apps, podcast apps, map apps, and web browsers—can all grow well beyond their "necessary" size over time. A good maintenance practice If you notice JW Library becoming unusually large every year or two: Make sure your notes and highlights are synchronized if you use that feature. Delete the app's data (or reinstall the app). Download only the publications you currently use. As you discovered, this can reclaim several gigabytes without losing anything that's backed up or easily re-downloaded. Your experience—shrinking from 2.5 GB to 0.5 GB—is a textbook example of accumulated app data being cleared out by a fresh start."

The whole point of this is to have a particular brand of evangelical Christianity considered the de facto religion of the USA. They know it can't be successfully defended in court because the first amendment exists. It marginalizes all children who aren't "Christian" (Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, etc.). My kids are grown and not in school anymore, but I would consider this action to be infringing on my parental rights to teach my religion to my children as I see fit. The school should teach them language, math, science, history, and geography (to name a few subjects) but morals, values, and religion is my domain.

Recreation can be rewarding.

I have an older android tablet that was out of space, so I started looking at apps that were using the most space and I found my JWLibrary was over 2.5 GB. I moved it to the external drive (SD card) but it didn't make any difference in how much space was being used on the internal drive. The media was already going to the SD card, so that wasn't a problem. I decided to delete the data and that freed up 2.5 GB of space on the internal drive. I reinstalled the publications and now my JWLibrary is using only half a GB. Why was it using 2.5 GB?

When was this added? I just found it last night after we got home from the Convention. I opened the JW app and there it was at the top of the page. What a great idea! It plays random videos, music, interviews, morning worship talks, everything! LOVE it!

What are you supposed to put in a go bag? I feel like I had been on the go for too many years, facing a lot of emergencies on life. Are you supposed to have one per person? It's nerve wracking just thinking about it. All I can think of is water and a torch and batteries. Beyond that, I just panic. My son was in hospital once for two years and I saw him every day and packed several bags a day, but trying to think of this ultimate go bag throws me in confusion 😅😕

My husband and I have a Workshop, he works and I shop.

Excursions are short, guided trips or outings usually made for pleasure, education or recreation.