Queen Esther

I was singing  *Kyrie eleison* as 16 year old girl in a church with a chorus ! Called * Missa brevis*  from W.A. Mozart. But also starting with the words Kyrie eleison !  I still have it on a sep. hard disc.  A nice reminder and experience... LOL

Saturday, July 1.  2017
Do not forget hospitality.—Heb. 13:2.
The original-language expression translated “hospitality” means “kindness to strangers.” This phrase may remind us of the examples of Abraham and Lot. Both men showed kindness to visitors whom they did not know. These visitors turned out to be angels. (Gen. 18:2-5; 19:1-3) Do we too extend hospitality to others by inviting them to our home for a meal or for some association and encouragement? We would not need to make elaborate or expensive arrangements to be considered hospitable; nor would we want to invite only those who might repay us in some way. (Luke 10:42; 14:12-14) Our goal should be to encourage, not to impress! Even though we may not know our circuit overseer and his wife very well, do we eagerly show them hospitality? (3 John 5-8) With our busy schedules as well as the stresses of daily living, how important it is that we “do not forget hospitality”! w16.01 1:11, 12
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2017/7/1

Danke liebe Heidi ???   Ich antworte Dir bei privat, ok ? Schnell liebe Grüße und alles Gute für Dich !

Vielen Dank Esther ich freue mich immer über deine Berichte , ir geht es noch schlecht heidi

In our country all varieties of Strelitzia's are so common people dig them out when other plants are fancied. Its useless trying to sell them. In fact, the white variety spreads and grows very tall I've seen them take over almost half the garden, leaving the rest in darkness. By then, it's very costly to call in someone to cut them down and carry them away. Even more costly if the roots have to be dug out to stop them sprouting. Not so with the orange/yellow varieties.
The similar Madagascar strelitzia is magnificent.

Oh...  I  believe  you,  THAT  makes  them  think,   YES !   Poor  people,  thinking  alot  wrong  around the  corner....  thereby  its  SO  simple  when  they  think  the  right  way !    I  found  a  nice  video  about  some  beautiful   BIRDS  OF  PARADISE   By  youtube  still  other  video's  with  SO  stunning,  beautiful  and  funny  BEAUTIES  there !
 
ENJOY  THIS  VIDEO.....   ( until  later ! )

A  THANKS  to  Sister  'Bible Speaks'  for  the  2 links !   Self-searching  was  of  course  a  quickly  idea   -  But  I  wait  of  a  special  answer  for  these  beautiful  Bible - wrapper  which  I  posted.  Seems  so,  it  doesn't  give  that  online   thats  sorry,  yes !     But  the  other  Bible - bindings  also  nice,  more  for  on  the  way....
( For  home  its  nicer  such  a  book - wrapper. )
But  I  still  saw  other  Bible  covers....   here  the  links :    / many  online  links  you  can  find 
Look  if  you  like  it,
https://www.etsy.com/search?q=bible+covers
http://www.niyae.com/Footprints-Bible-Cover
thats  a  special, cheap  Bible  cover !   $ 9,95  -
But  its  not  comparing  with  a  stabil  book-wrapper....  thats  different.

Many  JW  knowing  this  nice  poem....  'Footprints'  -----
You  can  look  to  many  Bible-covers  and  order...  ENJOY !
https://www.etsy.com/search?q=bible+covers
That  is  for  all  JW -   without  using  a  tablet....   All  others  not  need  or  we  have  long  time  mostly  a  leather  Bible - cover  with  a  zipper  or  similar !
 

Do  you  really  understand  my  comment,  dear  @ARchiv@L  ??   I  am  NOT  everybody...  and  I  WAS  'logged  in'  until  to  your  last  posted  picture,  but  only  8  towns  we  can  see,  try  it.   I  can't  write  the  town  Hamburg  into  the  empty  line....  The  curser  had  an  arrow  and  NOT  a  vertical  line  to  write,  like  here  by  comments,  etc. -  Its  blocked  to  write  a  town  there !   So  I  wrote,  maybe,  Hamburg  has  NO  special  Conventions  just  now...   But  I  want  try  inform  me  more  exactly,  when  our  Librarian  don't  know  the  answer  and  the  reason
Wish  you  a  nice  weekend  but  NOT  so  hot  days ! 

The green and yellow one.

The green-and-yellow was still being used up until the year before I got baptized. This meant that each hall still had a piano and a couple of sisters who could play the songs, because there was no record set for the green-and-yellow. Some of the old pre-1966 songs still stick in my head like:
Rejoice! The Kingdom Has Begun, Dedication, Hosannas for David's Son, Ministers for the Issue, Christ is Here!, Tell It Out!, etc. The older, more, complex version of "Forward! You Witnesses!" Also, there were completely different words for some of the songs we sang, like: "The Sword of Jehovah and of Gideon" (71) which was much more fun to sing in the old rhyme.
There's a call going out through the length of the land / To serve in the army of Gideon; For our captain has issued the final command / To vanquish the cohorts of Midian. In the pink songbook (Preach This Good News of the Kingdom!, 103), this changed to:
This good news of the Kingdom must now be proclaimed / In witness to each land and nation; And Jehovah's good name must become widely famed / Before his complete vindication. Also we were allowed to harmonize, like in a choir, on several songs: To the Work! 79 Send out Your Light! 65, Take Sides With Jehovah! 57 (also in pink, etc), 23, 53, etc.
The most forgettable song in the pre-1966 was "The Taunt-Song Against Satan." (75) What a title!
 

At my baptism, the brothers sang "You Ain't Nothin But a Hound Dog." What a nasty bunch they were there. 
But, seriously - at a congregation out in the hills, a duo playing piano and viola accompanied all songs. Such beautiful music you have never heard.

Saturday, July 1.  2017
Do not forget hospitality.—Heb. 13:2.
The original-language expression translated “hospitality” means “kindness to strangers.” This phrase may remind us of the examples of Abraham and Lot. Both men showed kindness to visitors whom they did not know. These visitors turned out to be angels. (Gen. 18:2-5; 19:1-3) Do we too extend hospitality to others by inviting them to our home for a meal or for some association and encouragement? We would not need to make elaborate or expensive arrangements to be considered hospitable; nor would we want to invite only those who might repay us in some way. (Luke 10:42; 14:12-14) Our goal should be to encourage, not to impress! Even though we may not know our circuit overseer and his wife very well, do we eagerly show them hospitality? (3 John 5-8) With our busy schedules as well as the stresses of daily living, how important it is that we “do not forget hospitality”! w16.01 1:11, 12
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2017/7/1

THE   TRUTH   CHANGES   LIVES !!    WOW....   THATS   REALLY   TRUE ❤ 
*Bravo*  our  Brother  ;-))

Oh...  I  believe  you,  THAT  makes  them  think,   YES !   Poor  people,  thinking  alot  wrong  around the  corner....  thereby  its  SO  simple  when  they  think  the  right  way !    I  found  a  nice  video  about  some  beautiful   BIRDS  OF  PARADISE   By  youtube  still  other  video's  with  SO  stunning,  beautiful  and  funny  BEAUTIES  there !
 
ENJOY  THIS  VIDEO.....   ( until  later ! )

Whenever opportune in the preaching work and people tell us they are going to heaven, we ask, "Where would you and others go for holidays? Surely few would say that they go to church every day, or do religious work day and night. Most would say they go to national parks, to the mountains, to the seaside or travel around the country, not so." When they agree, so we explain to them that it's because they love this earth. God has put the love of his 'footstool' in their hearts. (Eccl. 3:11) It makes them think.

For me too Anna.  Some years the brown one and then the next,  Singing to Jehovah ! Wish you a nice weekend...  Greetings from Germany 

For me it was the brown one

WOW! I think that's it. You must have gone to assemblies around St. Louis, and sometimes he conducted in Springfield (Illinois) at the racetrack? Some of the same orchestra also played at assemblies in Kansas City, where I played a couple times. I believe his congregation was fairly close to Brother Calvin Lanich, who played harmonica for a famous old group called the Harmonicats. (Several albums on Spotify.) One of the arrangements required a harmonica for a western theme, and Brother Lanich taught me how to play it because he didn't have time to travel with the orchestra.

I  also  informed  me  about  this  beautiful  Strelitzia  plant / Bird  of  paradise  plant ❤   Look  my  photos....

I  love  the  first  one,  bec.  red - orange  and  blue  color !   I  can  buy  it  here  sometimes  as  fresh  flower,  for  ca. 4 - 5  Euro,  but  its  nice  for  ca. 2 - 3  weeks    I  will  soon  ask  for  a  new  one   For  plant  it,  our  area  is  too  cold  for  many  months,  sorry
Strelitzia /strɛˈlɪtsiə/[1] is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. It belongs to the plant family Strelitziaceae.[2] The genus is named after the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, birthplace of Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom. A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower / plant, because of a resemblance of its flowers to birds-of-paradise. In South Africa it is commonly known as a crane flower and is featured on the reverse of the 50 cent coin. It is the floral emblem of the City of Los Angeles; two of the species, Strelitzia nicolai and Strelitzia reginae, are frequently grown as house plants.[3]



The  last  one  was  growing  in  Spain,  autumn  -
We  have  beautiful  Paradise  birdies  in  our  world  -  I  saw  many  photos  and  some  video's  too !   I  look  for  a  video....

I live in Missouri &  I'm thinking his name was Wayne but I could be mistaken..my mind isn't as sharp as it used to be..or will be.

That would have been quite a thing to hear. I remember once when the record player broke and brothers insisted that I play the piano, because I played guitar in the district convention orchestra (which was mostly violins and violas, btw). They had heard me "plink" on the piano a couple times. I insisted that I didn't play but they were sure. After an embarrassing false start, I ended up just playing the chords without the melody. (We didn't have chords printed in the songbook back then, but I had them scribbled into my copy.)

I played in one of the orchestras that played for U.S. Midwest assemblies in Illinois and Missouri. The brother who conducted was really good.  He produced some excellent arrangements in a lot of different styles. That's probably the main reason I remember many of the older songs that we haven't sung in half-a-century. Wow! It's really been that long!

What a beautiful memory, you have. I always loved the orchestra  music we had at assemblies...the brother that was the conductor went to our hall. Watching him made me love music as Jehovah does. 

I  also  informed  me  about  this  beautiful  Strelitzia  plant / Bird  of  paradise  plant ❤   Look  my  photos....

I  love  the  first  one,  bec.  red - orange  and  blue  color !   I  can  buy  it  here  sometimes  as  fresh  flower,  for  ca. 4 - 5  Euro,  but  its  nice  for  ca. 2 - 3  weeks    I  will  soon  ask  for  a  new  one   For  plant  it,  our  area  is  too  cold  for  many  months,  sorry
Strelitzia /strɛˈlɪtsiə/[1] is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. It belongs to the plant family Strelitziaceae.[2] The genus is named after the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, birthplace of Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom. A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower / plant, because of a resemblance of its flowers to birds-of-paradise. In South Africa it is commonly known as a crane flower and is featured on the reverse of the 50 cent coin. It is the floral emblem of the City of Los Angeles; two of the species, Strelitzia nicolai and Strelitzia reginae, are frequently grown as house plants.[3]



The  last  one  was  growing  in  Spain,  autumn  -
We  have  beautiful  Paradise  birdies  in  our  world  -  I  saw  many  photos  and  some  video's  too !   I  look  for  a  video....

Thanks for the video. It is a beautiful plant. Even the leaves are pretty. Compare the plant to the Crowned crane in our country. It regularly feeds on open spaces in our suburb and they breed close to the marshes where we have a bird watching stand.
A similar bird, the Hoopoe feeds on insects on lawns in our suburb.