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I imagine the sets would still be there. Episode 10 should be finished around June 2026. They are shooting 2-3 episodes a year. In 2029, the account will be the set in the final weeks of Jesus' ministry. Come early in the calendar year. Summer time is better for the weather. I imagine there might be a big party at the end of production. Who knows? 🤷‍♂️

My congregation meets here: ...out-of-season, it seems. It's surrounded by snow at the moment. Congregations: One English, one French.

Just when I thought I had it all figured out...a very kind, very loving sister reminded me that I was wrong. Four scriptures...four scriptural thoughts...and I was left in utter awe...staring at the pages of my Bible as if I'd never seen them before. And here I sit now, my Bible open...my notes on those four simple well known verses staring up at me from the torn piece of an old cheese order form where I'd hurriedly jotted them down last week. Even now, as I sit staring at my computer screen at 4:35 am...my steaming mug of coffee close at hand...I cannot help but replay those very embarrassing moments in my head over and over again. You see...I was in the middle of telling her and her husband about some recent challenges I've been facing when I saw her face scrunch up in sudden distaste. Immediately I stopped talking...fearing that something I had said had offended her in some way...and indeed...it had. Her husband, sensing the awkward moment...rushed in to save me...picking up the conversation and thanking me for sharing my experience with them. He was in the midst of saying that they should get going, having a scheduled doctor's appointment that same afternoon...when his wife suddenly stepped forward and, out of nowhere...gave me the biggest hardest hug I think I've ever experienced from a sister. Stepping back, she wiped away hot tears that had suddenly sprung into her eyes and REALLY looked at me...suddenly no longer offended, not even upset...but deeply concerned. And then she said something so simple, so quiet, that it stopped me cold...and THAT'S why I'm writing this post. “You know Tim, I love your experiences...I really do. But sometimes we forget who’s really doing the holding.” I nodded. I smiled. I thanked her. But inside, I felt exposed...not because I’d said something wrong, but because I’d said something incomplete. I had been telling a story about Jehovah...without fully letting Jehovah speak for himself. And my offense? Taking credit for something Jehovah had allowed me to do...I said that we just had to keep going...keep pushing along even if we felt like giving up...because WE needed to stay strong. "Can...can I tell you something? It's something I learned from my own personal studies, and from our family worship nights." She said, taking her husbands hand and gripping it tightly as he too suddenly looked like he might cry. Now a bit stunned, I nodded and assured her that I would love to hear her thoughts...but I never expected what came out of her mouth next: “I’m being held. I can’t be pulled away. I’m not alone in the pain. And the One carrying me won’t get tired of holding me...ever." I'm not joking, after those words left her mouth...they both started crying...right there in the hall. You see, friends...I had no idea that this dear couple had lost both of their children years ago in a tragic car accident...and I had no idea that one of them was a cancer survivor. I had no idea that they had endured so much...or that they talked about it so little, except to each other. And please believe me when I say that when those words left her lips...I could see her husband mouthing them with her...like a mantra. They explained that after the death of their two sons, two elders had came over for a shepherding call...and one of the brothers had given them four verses and suggested that they research them together...as a couple. She went on, “We were encouraged to use the online library to look for articles surrounding them...and even to look up the words behind them. The Hebrew. The Greek. Not to "learn more"...but to really understand how Jehovah was already caring for us.” Then she reached into her purse and pulled out a small, worn notebook. The corners were bent. The pages soft. Clearly it had seen a lot of use. “These are the verses,” she said, turning to a page with four verses written in faded red ink. “And these are the words that really helped us through a lot of tough times.” And then she shared them. Not as spiritual points. Not as explanations. Just as the most personal of gifts that they had to share. Here are the verses...and here are the four words and their personal thoughts on each: Isaiah 41:10 "Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be anxious, for I am your God. I will fortify you, yes, I will help you, I will really hold on to you with my right hand of righteousness." (Tamak.) To support, sustain or uphold. We had read Isaiah 41:10 countless times. But we had never noticed the word behind “hold on to you" until the brother had shared the idea of it on this shepherding call. Suddenly, we realized...we weren’t just clinging to Jehovah. He has been holding us up the whole time. John 10:28 "I give them everlasting life, and they will by no means ever be destroyed, and no one will snatch them out of my hand." (Harpazō) Jesus said no one could snatch us out of Jehovah’s hand. The word he used meant to tear away violently. And when we thought of all the moments we'd felt like we were slipping…we realized none of them had the force or the ability to pull us away from Jehovah. Isaiah 63:9 "During all their distress it was distressing to him. And his own personal messenger saved them. In his love and compassion he repurchased them, And he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old." (Tsar) When Isaiah said Jehovah felt their distress, the word meant tight, pressed in, overwhelmed...it meant empathy...not just sympathy. We had always prayed to Jehovah in those moments...never REALLY realizing he was already there, feeling it with us. Matthew 11:29 "Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am mild-tempered and lowly in heart, and you will find refreshment for yourselves." (Praus) Jesus described himself as mild tempered...meek...or even gentle in that single word. It represents strength under complete control...power that never resents the weight it carries. All the times we've asked Jehovah: Am I too much? Have I leaned on him too long? Will Jehovah get tired of carrying me? The simple answer is: Of course not! Because the One who carries us WANTS to...he is love, and love never grows weary of holding what it cherishes. And so here I sit...coffee gone cold, Bible still open, those four verses staring back at me like old friends I’m only now beginning to understand. Foolish pathetic little Tim...here I thought I had been telling a story about endurance...a story that would encourage them. Turns out, they encouraged me...because now here I sit...whispering those same words: “I’m being held. I can’t be pulled away. I’m not alone in the pain. And the One carrying me won’t get tired of holding me...ever."

This morning I made a discovery about banana bread that has deeply unsettled me. My wife insists on waiting until the bananas are completely mushy before she uses them. Not “soft.” Not “a little spotted.” No. These bananas look like they’ve given up on life. You pick one up and it sighs. At that point, she declares them “perfect.” Now here’s where I get confused. If the bananas are already mushy — visibly, undeniably mushy — why does the banana bread have to bake for an entire hour? An hour. Sixty minutes. As if we’re trying to soften them. Again. I asked her, very reasonably, “If the bananas are already soft… what exactly are we waiting for in the oven?” She just looked at me the way one looks at a man who has wandered into the kitchen without supervision. Apparently the hour is essential. Apparently things are “happening.” Science. Structure. Transformation. Words were used. But from where I stand, it feels like we are putting pre-mushed fruit into a loaf pan and then baking it for an hour to make sure it achieves… maximum mush. I have concluded that banana bread is less about baking and more about commitment. You wait for decay. You celebrate decay. You bake decay. And somehow it becomes dessert. I will continue to observe this ritual from a respectful distance. When the bananas begin to sigh, I will know. It is almost time.

I'm currently working on the mobile version of Baruch. It has a layout that doesn't allow a separate menu bar. The menu options appear in a parallax list.

Bro, which one are you reading? I read the first three, that I remember. Then I took them to the NH for my sister to read and the books 'disappeared". so now I am not sure which three I read....will have to review all and order the ones I have not read. He is a wonderful author! I love his books!! Enjoy. Even my COBE asked me about the books...not sure if he reads extra or not but I told him they were great.

We got to 37°C by lunch, then a storm passed by about 4pm, but we didn't get any rain. 😪 Another storm is bypassing us to the west.

If there was any cash, jewellery, or anything valuable in the coffin, I would take it and leave a cheque of the corresponding value instead.

Starlink can be disrupted by jamming GPS, which it relies on. This was how the Iranian government blocked access recently. It's too difficult to jam the Starlink signal itself, so GPS jamming is the quick & dirty way,

Yes. I'm not tech savvy, but I assume the app coming soon will use legacy infrastructure. Or, will it use Starlink? What do you think? If it uses Starlink, then it won't be the global phenomenon that it's being promoted to be, because there are just so many Starlinks. The press release on this new app makes it sound like everyone will have it immediately.

We wipe dust away without thinking. It settles on shelves. It drifts through beams of light. It gathers in corners. We call it nuisance. Leftover. Refuse. But dust becomes part of one of the most precise light displays on earth. To understand why, we need to picture something simple: the atmosphere is not thicker at sunset — the sunlight simply travels through more of it. Imagine standing in an open field at noon. The sun is high overhead. Its rays come almost straight down. The light passes through a relatively short column of air before reaching your eyes. Now imagine late evening. The sun is near the horizon. Its rays are no longer coming straight down. They enter the atmosphere at a shallow angle. Instead of dropping vertically through a thin column of air, the light slices sideways through the atmosphere, traveling across it. It is the same atmosphere. The same thickness. But the path is dramatically longer. A simple comparison helps. Think of shining a flashlight straight down through a shallow tank of water. The beam passes through quickly. Now tilt the flashlight so the beam travels diagonally across the tank from one side to the other. The water is not deeper — the path through it is longer. That . . . is what . . . happens at sunset. When the sun is overhead, sunlight may pass through roughly one atmosphere’s worth of air. When it sits near the horizon, that path can increase dozens of times. The light must move through more gas molecules, more water vapor, more suspended dust, more aerosols. And every encounter matters. As sunlight enters the atmosphere, shorter wavelengths — blue and violet — are scattered strongly by the tiny nitrogen and oxygen molecules. This is Rayleigh scattering. During midday, this scattering sends blue light in every direction, painting the sky above us. But when the sun lowers and its light must travel that extended path, the blue wavelengths are scattered out of the direct beam long before it reaches us. With each additional mile of air, more blue is redirected away. What survives that journey are the longer wavelengths — red, orange, deep amber. Now dust becomes more influential. When light encounters particles closer in size to its wavelength — soil fragments, sea salt, smoke, pollen — Mie scattering occurs. This type of scattering is less selective and tends to push light forward, spreading the remaining reds and oranges across the horizon. The extended path length increases the number of these interactions. More collisions. More filtering. More diffusion. The sky is not changing color because the sun changes. It changes because of distance. Because of angle. Because of how far light must travel through the medium Jehovah designed. There is also subtle curvature at play. The earth is round. When the sun is near the horizon, its rays skim along the curved surface of the planet, grazing through the densest layers of air before emerging toward us. The lower atmosphere holds most of the dust and moisture. So when the light enters at that shallow angle, it passes through the richest concentration of scattering material. That is why the horizon glows. Not because the air is thicker there — but because the light has taken the long road. And the long road transforms it. Psalm 104:24 says: “How many your works are, O Jehovah! You have made all of them in wisdom. The earth is full of your productions.” Even geometry participates in that wisdom. Angle. Distance. Density. Wavelength. Each factor interlocks with the others. If the atmosphere were much thinner, scattering would be weak and the sky would appear dark. If much thicker, sunlight would struggle to reach the surface clearly. If particulate levels were wildly unstable, sunsets would lack consistency. Instead, there is law-governed balance. The same dust we sweep aside becomes the filter that softens daylight into gold. The same molecules that scatter blue into the noon sky later remove it from the evening beam. The longer path does not create color; it reveals what remains after selective scattering has done its quiet work. Jehovah makes the most beautiful things out of dust. Man and woman, formed from it. Sunrises and sunsets, intensified through it. What seems small participates in a system of angles and laws so precise that the sky ignites on schedule every evening somewhere on earth. Light takes the long road — and because it does, we are given crimson. The earth is full of His productions. Full of dust. Full of geometry. Full of light traveling farther than we realize. Did you feel, as your read this, your words speed up. The comprehension was often simple and sublime. Your reading may have felt like you need to pause. To put it all together. To catch your breath. Because when you see the real thing . . . the sunrise or sunset, It just takes your breath away!

This is exactly what Starlink can provide. Internet access that is out of reach of governments. There was a recent launch from California and the effect was seen around the world. https://starwalk.space/en/news/spacex-starlink-satellites-night-sky-visibility-guide Its getting pretty crowded up there: https://earthsky.org/space/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-headed-for-catastrophe/ Our congregation was having trouble with local services for Zoom access, so they opted in for a starlink connection a month ago. So much faster and dependable, but I feel a bit uncomfortable about it.

This all may be leading to putting into operation "Agenda 21". The whole movement to "Peace" by world leaders is behind it.

My son told me in Taiwan, coffins were supposed to contain the wealth of the man to be buried with him. Somebody had the brilliant idea of writing a cheque for the coffin. Another even better idea was to photocopy all his money and put that in the coffin. Whatever works!!!

Ha. Some 15 years ago there was a documentary from British Columbia of a couple who lived on food from dumpsters for a year. If you know about Canada, all packaging required French somewhere on the package. Failure to do so resulted in food being tossed. The most remarkable was an entire dumpster FULL of Humous! There was even a case load of expensive chocolate that was pulled out and given to friends of the couple. The only thing they purchased for the whole year was milk for their coffee. Haha. Not sure if it accessable now. Here is the trailor. https://www.foodwastemovie.com/about/

The most exciting words in science are: "Huh. That's weird."

This book is so compelling, that I thought I would finish it in one sitting. It's fast-paced and packed with actions.

Hello, I'm sorry to hear that. I just came across this post today, and wanted to suggest www.indeed.com. They have remote jobs on there sometimes. I hope you can find something that suit your needs.

Creating a new personal pin for the affected publisher seems to solve the issue. There is definitely an issue with the six digit pins.

Looked at some U.S. iqs. Won't tell you mine, but last time it was the same as a Hollywood star.

Saturday, February 21 Jehovah is alive! Praised be my Rock! Let the God of my salvation be exalted.—Ps. 18:46. “Critical times hard to deal with”—that is how the Bible describes the days we live in. (2 Tim. 3:1) In addition to the challenges that everyone faces in this system of things, Jehovah’s people have to deal with opposition and persecution. What helps us to keep worshipping Jehovah despite these problems? One main thing is that we have come to know Jehovah as “the living God.” (Jer. 10:10; 2 Tim. 1:12) Jehovah is a real Person who sustains us during our trials and looks for opportunities to support us. (2 Chron. 16:9; Ps. 23:4) Viewing him as the living God can help us to face successfully any trial that comes our way. w24.06 20 ¶1-2

Looks good, brother Qapla. I will look for chat, again. ys

Back in July of 2021, U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley told us it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030. https://wfpusa.org/news/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-hunger/ In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. This estimate, based on estimates from USDA’s Economic Research Service of 31 percent food loss at the retail and consumer levels, corresponded to approximately 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food in 2010. https://www.usda.gov/about-food/food-safety/food-loss-and-waste/food-waste-faqs In the EU, over 58 million tonnes of food waste (130 kg/inhabitant) are generated annually (Eurostat, 2025), with an associated market value estimated at 132 billion euros (SWD (2023)421). https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/food-waste_en The amount of money wasted in food production is enough to end world hunger.

If things weren't interesting enough . . . The US Department of State announced a new app platform intended to give users the same uncensored Internet available to Americans, even in countries with strict online repression such as China and Iran, and increasingly tighter control in Europe. Freedom.gov Source: Reuters , Fox Frankly, it sounds dangerous. It will be completely open-source and completely anonymous. Quote: "Anyone can see how it works. No one, including us, can track or identify you". The app does not log IP addresses, session data, browsing activity, DNS queries or device identifiers that could be used to identify users. This is obviously intended to allow the people in countries to know what's going on in the world outside, while their own governments don't want them to know. But, it sure sounds like it can be misused by bad actors. But will it make our jworg easily accessible in China, North Korea etc ???

"A team of astronomers led by David Li has recently confirmed the discovery of ten potential "dark galaxies," where starlight is so faint that it's extremely difficult to detect anything with traditional observatories. The new list also includes Candidate Dark Galaxy-2 (CDG-2), a celestial structure that might be composed of 99% dark matter and just 1% of normal matter." (Dark Galaxy would be a good name for a band. ) It was discovered with the Hubble telescope and the Euclid space observatory. Dark matter (and dark energy) can be inferred because our observations of galactic mass don't match what Einstein's relativity equations tell us it should be.