2025 = 45^2
It's a perfect square. It will probably be the only perfect square year you ever get to live in.
The last time that occurred was in 1936. The next will be in 2116.
So, make 2025 a perfect year for you.
“A Prayer for the Transition of Years”
by Joel Beeke
Lord, as we arrive at the cusp of another year’s end,
We feel reluctant to cross the finish line.
For we ought to have run a better race.
Both Thy record book of memory and ours of conscience,
Find us painfully lacking in Scripture’s balances.
We wish we had justified ourselves less and repented more.
We wish we had talked less and communed with Thee more.
We wish we had sinned less and loved Thy Son more.
We wish we had backslidden less and worshiped Thee more.
We wish we had judged others less and served them more.
We can’t understand why Thou hast loaded us with so many blessings.
Why hast Thou been so much better to us than we to Thee?
Why hast Thou borne our griefs and carried our sorrows,
And interceded continually, and loved fully, even when chastening us?
Forgive, O Lord, our rewarding of evil for all Thy good.
We pray for grace to run the race of grace better in the year to come,
In and by Thy strength, making mention only of Thy righteousness,
Expecting nothing of ourselves but everything of Thee.
Jesus Christ, enfold us in Thy shepherding arms, pencil Thy image on us,
And ripen us for eternal communion with Thee to Thy Triune glory.
The Lord didn’t check who inside the house was worthy. He checked for blood on the doorposts.
None of us is worthy. Only the blood of Jesus can cover us.
My oldest son sent this, provoking a loud "D'oh" from me:
Narnia's "always winter and never Christmas" means Narnia is perpetually in Advent. Despite the machinations of the Witch, the whole of the Narnian creation groans for Aslan's arrival.
This guy had a great day today.
The AM, we were at vocal contest. The large group earned a I rating and his solo earned a I rating.
We came home for a little over an hour and then went to his guitar recital and cranked out Hotel California with his guitar teacher Isaac.
When hiking in rocky terrain, be sure to watch your step to avoid tripping and falling. Because nothing says 'I meant to do that' quite like face-planting in front of a group of judgmental squirrels.
The reason we are all so obsessed with finding Kate Middleton is because we grew up with Super Mario Bros and were literally trained to save the princess
I will be teaching a class tomorrow on how to make homemade laundry soap. If you are in the Joplin, MO area, feel free to join me at 10am (Journey Church Joplin). The class is FREE and you get to take home soap too.
Can't make it? Here is my blog post: https://t.co/oMfnbKc1sh