2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, 14-17 ~ Hold Fast

 

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, 14-17

We ask you, brothers and sisters,

with regard 

to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ

and 

our assembling with Him

Not to be shaken out of your minds suddenly,

or to be alarmed either by a “spirit,” 

or 

by an oral statement,

or 

by a letter allegedly from us

to the effect that t

The Day of the Lord 

is at hand.

Let no one deceive you in any way.

To this end He has also called you through our Gospel

to possess the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, 

stand firm

and 

hold fast to the traditions 

that you were taught,

either by an oral statement or by a letter 

of

Ours.

May our Lord Jesus Christ 

Himself

and 

God our Father

Who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement

and 

good hope 

through His Grace

Encourage your hearts 

and

Strengthen them

in every good deed 

and 

word.

Dolly Parton and Paul Newman seemed like they were grown into the same goodness.  Just plentiful and abundant measures to bring more Heaven to earth. Humor, warmth. Making Life Better.  Wanting to Bless Life to the Universe and Beyond.

Rare and Treasured. Bless them. And Bless them.

Dolly Parton's major philanthropic efforts span childhood literacy, education, disaster relief, medical research, and wildlife conservation.

Childhood Literacy & Education

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library: 

Founded in 1995 under The Dollywood Foundation, this program sends a free book every month to children from birth until school age, having distributed 

over 

300 Million Books 

Worldwide.

The Buddy Program (1988): Launched to reduce high school dropout rates in Sevier County, Tennessee, offering $500 to seventh and eighth graders who eventually graduated, dropping the local dropout rate from 35% to 6%.

The Dolly Parton Scholarship (2000): 

Awards 

annual $15,000 college scholarships 

to select high school seniors in Sevier County.

Grow U Program: 

Provides free college tuition and program costs for 630 employees at Dollywood.

Disaster Relief 

                              My People Fund (2016): 

Established following East Tennessee wildfires, 

providing monthly stipends to families who lost their homes in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.

Hurricane & Flood Support: 

Donated millions toward flood relief in Middle Tennessee (2021), 

Hurricane Helene relief efforts (2024), 

and contributions to the Salvation Army.

Healthcare & Medical Research

COVID-19 Vaccine Research: 

Donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 

which helped fund early research for the Moderna vaccine.

Pediatric & Cancer Care: 

Contributed extensively 

to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt 

And partnered to expand services at what became 

Dolly Parton's Children's Hospital, 

alongside funding pediatric infectious disease research.

Conservation & Community

Eagle Mountain Sanctuary: 

A 30,000-square-foot aviary at Dollywood managed 

with the American Eagle Foundation 

to shelter non-releasable bald eagles.

WILL NEED A GO FUND ME 

MEMORIAL TO 

DOLLY PARTON

Dollywood's Eagle Mountain Sanctuary will be permanently closed.

(Photo by Kyle Ross/ Getty Images) 

For 35 years, visitors to Dollywood have enjoyed seeing bald eagles at the theme park, but now the Eagle Mountain Sanctuary is set to close. 

 The eagles will be permanently housed at the American Eagle Foundation’s 50-acre education and conservation campus in Kodak, Tennessee, instead. 

 The big change comes just a few months after Dollywood’s sanctuary was damaged during a severe storm. 

Strong winds caused a tree to fall, which landed on the sanctuary and created a large opening. Three of the non-releasable eagles unfortunately flew away. Concern for the birds grew as weeks went by without anyone being able to find them. Each eagle at Dollywood’s Eagle Mountain Sanctuary was brought there because of permanent injuries that would make it hard for them to survive in the wild, so finding them was especially important. 

 The three eagles that escaped are named Caesar, Rockland, and Wesley. In May, Caesar was safely found and brought to the American Eagle Foundation for extra care and a new home. As of now, August 24, the other two eagles are still on the loose.

OPPORTUNITY To Give To DOLLY PARTON

GO FUND DOLLYWOOD EAGLES Again.

Nashville Community Investment: 

Used publishing royalties from "I Will Always Love You" 

to help economically revitalize a historically Black neighborhood in Nashville.

And His Son

Jesus

Our Abba, Father

We ask Your Blessing 

from God our Father 

and

The Lord Jesus Christ.

Our Alleluia Chorus will come from Jesus.

 Amen!

Blessed is our the God and our Father.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, has presented the Father with a New Heaven 

and a new earth.

Pray with hope!

Ending

Bad weather experienced 

And

be good weather again.

Praying for safety and prosperity in these days.

Please continue to pray for peace and the wishes of our parents and great

 and 

grandparents to be fulfilled in a peaceful and complete manner. 

Because we know our Father.

The Father of mercies

and God of all comfort.

This is Our Father and Jesus, who comforts us 

enabling us, strengthening us,

able to comfort those in any affliction,

 Blessings of Grace and Peace,

with which we ourselves are comforted 

by God.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

Peace and the Joy God gives us.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

We are praying for 
NATIONS

to put

aside

Tyranny

and Cartels.

In Christ’s one offering of His life, and in His sufferings,

we share abundantly in comfort.

We pray the impossible 

more Heaven on earth and 

for the believers of God 

and 

the ones they pray for 

To Know Your Love 

and

See the weary world REJOICING in Christ Jesus.

We can do absolutely nothing about Massachusetts killing babies.  Shake our heads at the horror of babies murdered. We can moan and cry and do absolutely nothing. And those babies will die badly.

 Or we can find life and grace. Blessing the great and grand and parents to find Love has made a path straight forward. 

Pray and make a path for these preborn children to LIVE.

To Know Your Love 

and

See the weary world REJOICING in Christ Jesus.

Life for preborn children. Human Beings. Babies.  Hoping for love and warmth to give and receive.  So many willing hearts and homes. Valid Adoption Agencies.  Hope for the biological mother, instead of a life of sadness.

Saint Nicholas of Myra, b. March 270 – 6 December 343, Nicholas of Bari. Known as St. Nicholas. 

Pere Noel. Father Christmas. Santa.

If our Saint Nicholas 

buys 3 women out of being trafficked. 

We can certainly 

ask 

the mother to accept payment 

for bringing

God's Gift of Life 

into the world. 

Support 

The Book of Life!

Support 

The Book of Life!

In the Name of Jesus 

fill us

surround us

Embolden us

lead us

redeem us

and 

keep us forever.

Lord Jesus Christ

Only Son of God, our Father.

WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE

IN
JESUS CHRIST

THE LORD

Father God, Dear Father God,

WE PRAY 

BLESSINGS 

for those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Jesus Christ

Shine on us

ALL

Let evil and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

Health for

American Gray Whales

and their solid survival

facing Orcas. 

Thy Kingdom come

Thy will be done

on earth

as it is

in Heaven. 

And we will be blessed indeed. 

Jesus the Lord. Alleluia

and Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose!

Revelation 21:9-14 ~ in Spirit

Have you ever wondered about Light of the Heaven, Light of mankind, Light of the world. God says He is the Light within all of mankind.  Combined with the walls of Heaven described, a lot of the stones in the walls seem a little ordinary. With certainty, the Throne of Heaven is mighty with precious stones in red and green, the Lord's favorite colors.  But what are we to make of the stones like Jasper?

Yes, the greens of the walls.  Exactly!

Doubtful the walls of Heaven are ordinary. Or glitzy. Or showy without evoking an overwhelming sense of Profound and Meaningful Wonder. 

You can glimpse a bit of Heaven in ai videos. Sorta  Other than Heaven is not "Dark." And not the home of the Emperor of Star Wars.  Mrs. Emperor isn't the Bride of Jesus Christ. 

Instead, Heaven would celebrate the Light glowing in us, bringing out our best love, forever best attitude, best care, loving manners.

In Heaven, the desert Jerusalem valley, the forsaken area, where rubbish is piled, known as Valley of Gehenna, is made again to be Glory for God.

Revelation 21:9-14

The angel spoke to me, saying,

"Come here.

I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."

He took me in Spirit

 to a great, high mountain

and 

showed me 

The Holy City Jerusalem

coming down out of Heaven 

from God.

It gleamed 

with 

the splendor of God.

Its radiance was like that of a precious stone,

like jasper, clear as crystal.

It had a massive, high wall,

with twelve gates 

where twelve angels were stationed

and 

on which Names were inscribed

The Names of the twelve Tribes of the Children of Israel.

There were three gates facing east,

three north, 

three south, 

and three west.

The Wall of the City 

had twelve courses of stones 

as its foundation,

on which were inscribed 

The twelve Names

of the twelve 

Apostles 

of 

The Lamb.

As we look at The Lord Jesus, we see something of His Aura.  What is an Aura.

The Light, a gift, giving by The Lord God Almighty.  

Aura. Is this a science or a bolt of fabric, obviously not. Angels in the Bible are messengers of fire.  What does this suggest? Light. And not the kind we hold in our hand. Only held in our soul. Our heart of hearts.  Angels frequently begin to be seen so clearly as the Lord's Messenger, the Lord Himself is glimpsed.  And after the vision has flown to Heaven, the people wonder if they will die soon.  They have seen the Lord.  And yet God explains He is Life Abundant.  God of the Living.  No one forgets seeing an Angel.

And what are the Halos, the Aura? It really gets changeable in a way that isn't the Glory of God's Messengers.  Human beings get tangled up in flights of ideas and rolls of life span and abundance.  

Consider Charlton Heston. He straightened out a Michelangelo mystery or mistake of Moses from the year 1505.  Michelangelo thought about Moses as light and aura and Glory of God.  And Michelangelo read Saint Jerome's Moses' face as "cornuta" ("horned") in the Latin Vulgate translation of the passage found at Exodus chapter 34, and Jerome meant "beams of light" as in "rays of sunshine."  It was frankly a terrible mistake. And yet. God drew that mistake in 500 years to become something spectacular. Charlton Heston is the face of Moses from the statue. The 1956 epic film The Ten Commandments was directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille and stars Charlton Heston as Moses.  

If only Ai would improve the 1956 film to be the incredible film it was for generations. 

Aura.  It's something my mother and I discussed since I was 3 and 4 years old living within an hour of Florence, Italy.  I thought it was something of a huge burden. My mother adored and collected and sent Christmas Cards for years of medieval Madonnas and wooden people. 

They looked like this:

and

Why do you send this, Mother? It looks like criminals dressed up! Some of her Christmas Cards were so first dimensional flat, I remember one with Madonna's feet were 3 times the size of the Christ Child and they all looked faintly murderous.  At age 4, I told my mother I would pick the next year's Christmas cards. This discussion when on for a long time and involved anyone who visited us.  Finally, finally, Mother decided the time for medieval flat halos was done. 

And like the horns of Moses, the idea of the Lord God Almighty should be given as a gift and not a warning. 

And here is our sign:

This isn't a flat, one dimensional art of the 400s AD,

this is a glorious and loving saint, who does not know what to say at the moment. And the moment passes. 

And God will raise up His Love to be eternal. This is the exemplification of :

"God buries His workmen, but carries on His work" from 18th-century Methodist leader John Wesley. 

Google says: Divine Continuity: God's overarching mission, purpose, and plan do not depend on any single person and will continue moving forward regardless. Encouragement: Believers are reminded to remain faithful in their temporary seasons of service, knowing that God sustains His purpose across generation.

The Gift of Love

The Dark never overcomes

Seriously

Stained Glass is sand. Burned. And then Light begins to create.  The Light within.

This Aura

is Heavenly

Our Abba, Father

We ask Your Blessing 

from God our Father 

and

The Lord Jesus Christ.

Our Alleluia Chorus will come from Jesus.

 Amen!

Blessed is our the God and our Father.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, has presented the Father with a New Heaven 

and a new earth.

Pray with hope!

Ending

Bad weather experienced 

And

be good weather again.

Praying for safety and prosperity in these days.

Please continue to pray for peace and the wishes of our parents and great

 and 

grandparents to be fulfilled in a peaceful and complete manner. 

Because we know our Father.

The Father of mercies

and God of all comfort.

This is Our Father and Jesus, who comforts us 

enabling us, strengthening us,

able to comfort those in any affliction,

 Blessings of Grace and Peace,

with which we ourselves are comforted 

by God.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

Peace and the Joy God gives us.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

We are praying for 
NATIONS

to put

aside

Tyranny

and Cartels.

In Christ’s one offering of His life, and in His sufferings,

we share abundantly in comfort.

We pray the impossible 

more Heaven on earth and 

for the believers of God 

and 

the ones they pray for 

To Know Your Love 

and

See the weary world REJOICING in Christ Jesus.

We can do absolutely nothing about Massachusetts killing babies.  Shake our heads at the horror of babies murdered. We can moan and cry and do absolutely nothing. And those babies will die badly.

 Or we can find life and grace. Blessing the great and grand and parents to find Love has made a path straight forward. 

Pray and make a path for these preborn children to LIVE.

Life for preborn children. Human Beings. Babies.  Hoping for love and warmth to give and receive.  So many willing hearts and homes. Valid Adoption Agencies.  Hope for the biological mother, instead of a life of sadness.

Support 

The Book of Life!

Support 

The Book of Life!

In the Name of Jesus 

fill us

surround us

Embolden us

lead us

redeem us

and 

keep us forever.

Lord Jesus Christ

Only Son of God, our Father.

WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE

IN
JESUS CHRIST

THE LORD

Father God, Dear Father God,

Saint Nicholas of Myra, b. March 270 – 6 December 343, Nicholas of Bari. Known as St. Nicholas. 

Pere Noel. Father Christmas. Santa.

If our Saint Nicholas 

buys 3 women out of being trafficked. 

We can certainly 

ask 

the mother to accept payment 

for bringing

God's Gift of Life 

into the world. 

WE PRAY 

BLESSINGS 

for those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Jesus Christ

Shine on us

ALL

Let evil and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

Health for

American Gray Whales

and their solid survival

facing Orcas. 

Thy Kingdom come

Thy will be done

on earth

as it is

in Heaven. 

And we will be blessed indeed. 

Jesus the Lord. Alleluia

and Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose!