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Thanks again David 👍. The connection between cultivating love “through prayer, humility, and meditating on Jehovah’s own patience with us”, and getting to trust others again is a great point. Getting back to basics is very beneficial.

Yep will be interesting to see what toys remain and that are useful… But we have over 144,000 superhumans with special power and imbued knowledge that will provide the big and little picture.. Stand back and be prepared to be amazed in our involvement…

This is beautiful. Thank you.

I am going through something right now that most might consider a small matter, but it hurt me nevertheless. These words made me cry, " Continue forgiving one another freely. The words are not a suggestion. They are a call to imitate the One who forgives most freely of all. Jehovah will never stop forgiving you. Will you, then, stop forgiving your brother?" I am still crying over what happened because I didn't expect it and I didn't react or try to correct the matter on the spot. This brother, on the other hand, showed me by example how to conduct myself when we went out during the preaching work, and here, I felt like he violated me. I don't want to keep a score card. I just want to move on, but, honestly, it hurt me. It embarrassed me, and he doesn't even know how much he hurt me. I don't want to remember but I can't forget what happened. However, I honestly believe I have to let this go somehow. I don't know how, except to keep praying about it. Hopefully, one day soon Jehovah will let me see how I grew from this experience. I don't expect this to happen again (trying to be positive here). Thank you for sharing this thought. It does give me reason to pause and reflect how much I have sinned against the Almighty, in the past, now, and I'm sure in the future, and how much patience Jehovah exercised towards me. My current inclination is to try to have a civil discussion about the matter. My guts tell me to let things ride and should something else come up again. So, for now, I'll let it ride (even with tears). Thank you, once again.

Interesting article. Where I grew up, there was one cherry tree in the back yard. The cherries it produced were about the size of the tip of my little finger and were very bitter. It just occurred to me that maybe another cherry tree would allow for some cross-pollination and make better fruit. I might do some research.

Brother, I continue to thoroughly appreciate your insightful expressions. You truly have a poetic soul. Thanks so much for sharing.

Awe inspiring, as usual.

I used to watch a show called, 'Life After People' which started me to thinking. It mentioned a lot of landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty and said that without maintenance these things would deteriorate over time. They even gave projections of how long it would take for these things to be gone altogether. This made me think of after Armageddon and how all these manmade items would be gone within 1,000 years. I thought that maybe, if Jehovah decides to leave all these things they would be gone by the end of the 1,000 years anyway. Another thought I heard (on JWTALK) mentioned everything being destroyed and starting over. That possibility got me thinking about starting over like Adam and Eve started out in the Garden of Eden and working to make the earth a paradise. It would be interesting. A third thought that came to me recently was what if Jehovah is selective. He could destroy whatever is not needed, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, city skyscrapers, etc. Who needs all the mobile homes that have not been sold and are sitting on lots? There might be things within those homes that are salvageable for use somewhere else. Many homes might have to be torn down if Jehovah does not destroy them. In this scenario what would be destroyed and what would be left for our use? Some things most certainly would be destroyed. Other things are beyond my knowledge to decide if they would be destroyed or remain. I think it would be OK to allow the fields of Photovoltaic cells to remain, while churches, funeral homes, doctor and dentist offices, hospitals, etc. would have no need to remain.

What a delightful way to start a day! Thank you, David!

Ooooh, that top picture! Makes my mouth Water! Jehovah surely knew what He was doing!

Hi! I’m Always encouraged by your lovely posts, brother David. & yes, I’ll readily admit to being one of the silent ones who appreciate but rarely comment - although irl, it’s sometimes difficult to shut me up! Please continue to share your beautiful studies - I do look forward to them. 😊😊

& I am today years old to learn this!!

My first post had to do with things I would like to get rid of as soon as possible. I thought it might be right to post about positive things that can be done in paradise. My home is simple and yet complicated. Starting from the ground up. My house would have a heating system powered by the sun. Solar thermal collectors heated by the sun and the heat can be stored until needed. A large tank in the ground will store the heat (water or some other storage medium) for use as needed. Pipes will be run in the floor to gently heat the home. Radiant floor heating is in wide use today. It is far more comfortable than forced air heating. The entire house will be warmed this way, no matter how many floors it has. Cooling in hot weather and refrigeration to store food can be accomplished by an absorption refrigeration system. The house will be built in such a way so as to provide some natural air conditioning. See my post in the topic "What Power in Paradise" to see the many ideas for clean energy that are available! I want a bedroom to sleep, but I would also have a hammock outside to sleep in on nice nights. The bedroom would not have to be large and there would not be a television set or any video device in the bedroom. The bedroom would be for sleeping only, so that my body would be trained to go to bed and go to sleep quickly. When I am fully awake, I will get up. My body will know that bed means sleep! I would have an area for food and cooking. Storage will not have to include a drawer for medicines. There will be spaces for all kind of fruit, maybe eggs and certain items. There will be no processed foods in this area. Cooking will be done by inversion cooktop. No need to heat the house unnecessarily and add poisonous gases to the air by burning gas. Inversion takes less electricity because instead of heating an eye that transfers heat to a pot or pan, the metal in the cooking utensil is heated directly. Inversion is the fastest, safest, and cleanest way to cook food. Windows in my house will be infinitely adjustable from tonally transparent, through vrious degrees of translucence, to completely opaque. The transparent aluminum in Star Trek may not actually be possible, but there are glass windows that can be coated with certain metals that would be adjustable by an electric current. A simple slide switch can control, the degree of transparency just as some switches are used today as dimmers for lights. I would like a living area both inside and outside the house. A living/cooking area outside would allow enjoying the outdoors on a nice day. It would be good to be outdoors on a nice day. My outdoor porch would probably wrap all the way around the house. Any door I choose to go out I will have a small porch. The roof on my porch may be made from a infinitely adjustable material just as the windows in my house. Solar photovoltaic cells and possibly windmills (and other means of producing electricity) will provide electricity, not to be stored in batteries, but to produce hydrogen to be compressed and stored in large(?) tanks. The hydrogen can then be used in fuel cells to produce electricity for the home as needed or transferred to vehicles that use hydrogen fuel cells to power an electric engine. The electrical needs will be greatly reduced by using the sun to heat and cool the house. Estimates I have read are that around 2/3s (or more) of the electricity used today is for heating and cooling the house and hot water and refrigeration. Removing these energy hogs will vastly reduce energy requirements. There will be no waste. When we peel some fruit, the peeling and the core can be put into a compost bin. Any leftover food can be put into compost and provide fertilizer for plants. We can have a community around us with a large fruit orchard and large garden area. Everyone contributes and everyone gets the gets the rewards. We could also have a small personal area for fruit trees and garden area for our special wants, although I think the community fruit orchard and garden will probable provide everything we need. Transportation will be nonpolluting. In the post I mentioned earlier there were pedal powered vehicles as well as vehicles powered by various nonpolluting means. Of course, walking will be fine for short distances. If I misunderstood the topic, all of this might be off topic. I hope I got the right understanding of the topic. If this is off topic, I apologize.

And that's it ay? Everything we do is to get to know the brotherhood whether now or in the New World. We are family in the real sense of the word.

You all invited. Our home is yours.

Can I be invited - I'll bring a plate of oatmeal rasin , peanut butter , ice box, snickledoodle, chocolate chip ,ginger snap cookies ...............please ?

At certain times of the year, I get calls from telemarketers several times a day. One specifically is trying to get me to sign up for a Medicare Advantage plan. I have regular Medicare for my primary insurance and a very good private policy to take care of co-pays and other extra charges. My prescription is not government but private so I can use coupons for discounts on certain drugs. Instead of paying $700.00 per month I get the prescriptions for a $10.00 to $30.00 copay. I do not want a Medicare Advantage plan. In the future I will not be bothered by these nuisance calls. Every day we ingest enough micro-bits of plastic to make a credit card. These micro-bits are too small for the eye to see, but they can get into our cells and damage them. Try to stop using any plastic. In today's world it isn't possible. I have medicine I have to take that comes in plastic bottles. Water bottles and garbage bags are all problems that we have to put up with. In the future we will not be doing damage with the plastic we use today. Excess CO2 in the atmosphere causes global warming. If Satan can't rule the earth, he will be happy just to ruin it for human habitation. and the governments (for the most part) go right along with him. In paradise CO2 levels in the atmosphere will be in the proper balance. After Armageddon, I can throw away my CPAP machine (sleep apnea), my heart monitor (that works by getting signals from my pacemaker and send to the cardiologist.), all the medicine (prescription and supplements), my walking cane (spondylosis will be gone), income tax records, insurance forms, appliance warranties, insurance cards (auto, home, and health), credit cards, driver's license, wills and trusts, etc., etc., etc. I won't have to worry about doctors, dentists, hospitals, etc. I will never hear a siren again (ambulances, fire engines, or police cars), never worry about speeding drivers and auto accidents. I, along with everyone else alive then, will have perfect health. There will always be new places to visit. Plate tectonics will change the landscape over millennia. Erosion will constantly be making changes to the terrain. Lave flow from the bottom will create new island to visit. Always something new to see. And it will al be beautiful. So much more that could be said. The possibilities for the new system is more than we can imagine

Personally, there is quite a lot I’d want to see, but whom I would like to see the most, is my late mother, who died when I was young. I look forward to welcoming her back, so that she can see that she had at least 1 child who made it, who kept serving Jehovah. I want to tell her how sorry I am for being so stubborn and hard-hearted when I was young. I would like for my brother and sister on that side, to join me in pure worship, but at the moment that hope appears to be dim. But due to the recent adjustments with the great tribulation, that proves that nothing is over, until it is truly over, and my hope for my family to join in true worship will be kept alive thru the darkest of times, and hopefully we all survive into the brightest era of human history, all three of us, together, with our mother, serving Jehovah forever as one. That’s all I have to say.

Too , look at the rainbow - the colors are "soft " , not sharp but the colors to me can not be matched by paint or crayon , very unique shall we say "CUSTOMIZED " and our God is willing to share - good people or bad - also the rainbow was a sign that the earth will not be flooded again like the days of Noah - you can bank on it . Also smelling the air after a lightning storm - its ozone , to clean the air - anything Jehovah has running can be run on perpetual motion - to infinity ( even us - its in the guarantee )

Our eyes and brains will be able to see and interpret perfectly . What a kind , generous gift our God will give us - even the color of plants might be more vibrant with the nutrients in the soil ,water ,air . A whole new living - a whole new world - "PRAISE JEHOVAH OUR GOD !"

I was just meditating on this morning. 1 Corinthians 2:9 "Eye has not seen and ear has not heard, nor have there been conceived in the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those who love him.” It made me realize that the Kingdom is absolutely mind blowing, the description of the crystal clear river like glass, all the precious stones, singing, and unity as oneness of people in love and perfection. Jehovah's level of beauty and ability to restore the earth is something I've never seen. It will be more beautiful than any thing my eyes have ever beheld. It made me wonder due to sin, and imperfect earth, are we even seeing color the Jehovah intended? Will the trees and plants be beaming with a vibrancy of colors we never seen? precious stones will be abundant and any structure Jehovah the master builder instructs will be fear inspiring. What will a sunset look like? what color will the ocean be? For example the Aurora Lights are beautiful. Jehovah can not tell a lie, I know what ever my mind can imagine it'll be far more awe inspiring, mind blowing, and spectacular a new world, unlike anything I imagined or ever seen. But he wants me to keep on looking to his Perfect Kingdom. It blew my mind how amazing!!!

It's true, Carmen. Sometimes the dream is painful because our current reality locks us in a tank of emotional suffering, we can even feel lost. However, if we no longer dream, we remain with our suffering of the moment which becomes a prison and the risk is to weaken in hope. The New World is around the corner, says the song. Without dream, hope and imagination it will be difficult to see this street, this corner that Jehovah designates. You are tired, little sister, but I have read you many times and your faith is powerful and leaping. This kind of faith does a lot of good when it expresses itself. So in my opinion you imagine a lot more than you think.☺️🧡🧡🧡

Loaded question. I think about how I want a home set up for my dad before he's resurrected. Cooking and playing guitar with him. I love to think about all these things but, I have a problem. When I drift to those thoughts or, read some of the books the brothers have so talently written I can't move on. Only because I'm in the here and now and I feel cheated that for a moment I allowed myself to wander and then come back to reality that I am still in the present. And then the sadness overwhelms me. The brothers and sisters here are so talented. Wow! I am amazed and thankful.

Thank you very much for your input, my sister. Jehovah understands that not all of us DESIRE to build a house and take up residence right away...be assured that he knows the innermost desires and workings of your heart. He could set things up so that your hearts desires are accomplished while still fulfilling his will in every aspect! That ability to stretch our brain muscles and say..."one day...when I am ready"...that is EXACTLY what Jehovah wanted for us in the first place. He never intended us to be robots...to think the same...to act the same...or else he would have CREATED robots. The idea of stretching our creative muscles and exercising our rights within the limits that Jehovah set...that gets HIM excited...he WANTS to see what we will come up with. So just know...your ideas have true merit...and Jehovah appreciates your ability to look into the future and pull those thoughts together...into a sense of reality...even now. Thank you for reaching out and expressing your thoughts on this subject!

I understand all of those thoughts, I've had elements of them in my own thinking for years! Thanks for sharing!!

Every time I have to fill out a form, I envision a world where red-tape will be a thing of the past. No more worrying about whether or not I filled out the form right, or if I've forgotten to fill out some forms. Every time a scammer calls to harm me, I envision a world where Jehovah's loving laws will be written on our hearts. No more worrying about how identity theft could leave me homeless, with a zillion and one more forms to fill out to 'try' to get my identity back. It's the ugly HORRORS of this world that prompts me to envision the unfathomable WONDERS of the New World. I am eternally grateful for the Kingdom Hope...every moment of every day 💜