Crooked God Of War (2022)
Still, Naaman reminds me: a story that begins with violence, a simple piece of information given from an open heart, a journey of hope, an affront from a person expected to be visibly holy, a simple act of dipping in a river. All are crooked lines with which God wrote straight the Truth, the Compassion, the Fidelity of His love.
Crooked God Of War (2022)
Lord, help me to believe in Your Truth, Your Compassion, Your Fidelity when all I can see are crooked lines. Help me to trust, to follow You carefully, and to respond to whatever circumstances life puts me in with my best efforts at truth, compassion, and faithfulness. Lead me, guide me, Lord.
Mary, I always enjoy your reflections. You are gifted in writing about your faith and how God speaks to you through Scripture. Thank you! Your closing prayer was especially touching and relevant for me personally. May God help me see how the crooked lines in my life can become straight through His ways and not mine!
I was born in Silverton Oregon and raised in Howell Prairie Central Howell there was always talk about chief crooked finger. One of my most cherished childhood moments or when my father would speed up the garden I will hunt arrowheads and pray to God that I would find them when I found them I would pray to God thank you but then I felt like I found something I made thank you for the history and please let me know what else history you find out Ken Rickard
Although there are claims that the forest has 400 trees, there are less than 100 crooked pine trees spread over two hectares of land, as per the Gryfino Forest District managers. Reportedly, they were planted between 1930 and 1945. The trees were 7 to 10 years old when they were planted, and almost all of them point northwards.
Of course, the J-shaped trees have attracted a lot of curious visitors and several theories have been come up to prove why the pine trees are crookedly-shaped. One of the theories suggests that in the 1930s, pines of differing lengths were planted and then flattened by the German tanks when they were young. However, the curvature of the trunks way too smooth for such destruction, and the tanks would have wiped off the entire forest, not just the young pine grove. Others suggest that heavy snowstorms, gravitational pulls, genetic mutation, aliens, etc. could have altered the shape of the trees.
On a clear July morning in 1346, a small force approached the walls of Caen for battle. The attackers rode to the field on horseback, banners and pennants fluttering in the light breeze. Behind them marched bowmen in tightly ranked units. At the sound of a crisp battle horn, they halted. A twinge of apprehension rippled through the thousands of Norman defenders as they looked down at the opposing army, for precision archery formation had long since disappeared as a military concept in medieval France. Here was not the expected rabble of unrated bucolics cowed by the might of France; confronting them was a quietly determined group of trained soldiers armed not with the familiar arbalest but with a new and strange weapon of great length. The defenders of Caen were about to meet the English war bow and its deadly battle shaft. For the next 100 years, this weapon, the "crooked stick," would command continental battlefields, etching its fearsome reputation at Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt, and Verneuil, while establishing England as an international power for the first time.
1 Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time on and forevermore. 3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous might not stretch out their hands to do wrong. 4 Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts. 5 But those who turn aside to their own crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers. Peace be upon Israel! 041b061a72