2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he (or she) is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come!" What do you think being in Christ means? If we know Christ, follow the Gospel stories of his life and know the path that Jesus walked, we understand His life on this earth. The real story though is in His dying. The fact that he subjected Himself to the brutality of the beatings and died on the cross is horrific, but that He could have chosen not to is in the real story. He died for you. The fact that God our Father used Jesus as an offering to erase all of your sins and mine - forever, so that we can enter heaven and be with Him, that is the real story. The fact that it makes your life on this earth more meaningful is wonderful, but not the real reason. John 3:16.
On this day
2009 Nicole and I spent some time in the evening with our new neighbor Barb and her old neighbor Keith. We all have neighbors that have moved out, new moved in. I actually get upset when good neighbors that I have been close to for many years move out. I try not to but I feel - abandoned, sad and angry actually. We always say - "we will keep in touch". We do but it is not the same as when you were next door or across the street. Barb's house was built when Nicole was two and the first family was Rose and David who had boys David and Joshua. We were closer then close, spent all of our time together. I still talk to Rose but she is up in Lapeer so..... Then Roxanne moved in with her two teenagers Angela and Carman. We became family. Angela and Carman moved to California and after a while Roxanne moved to a big beautiful house in Harrison Twp. Close but not my neighbor anymore. We do still connect occasionally. Now, it's Barb and her three boys, David, Dalton and Daniel. We have gotten involved but not as much as the others. Nicole did find Barb a job that lasted for about 5 years and this year I hooked her up with my friend for a job. I do love my neighbors.
1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City. Remember this for Jeopardy.
Hawaii
It is possible that Spanish explorers arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in the 16th century—200 years before Captain James Cook's first documented visit in 1778. Ruy López de Villalobos commanded a fleet of six ships that left Acapulco in 1542 bound for the Philippines with a Spanish sailor named Juan Gaetano aboard as pilot. Depending on the interpretation, Gaetano's reports describe an encounter with either Hawaiʻi or the Marshall Islands.[54][55][better source needed] If de Villalobos' crew spotted Hawaiʻi, Gaetano would be considered the first European to see the islands. Some scholars have dismissed these claims due to a lack of credibility.[56][57]
Spanish archives contain a chart that depicts islands at the same latitude as Hawaiʻi but with a longitude ten degrees east of the islands. In this manuscript, the island of Maui is named La Desgraciada (The Unfortunate Island), and what appears to be Hawaiʻi Island is named La Mesa (The Table). Islands resembling Kahoolawe, Lanai, and Molokai are named Los Monjes (The Monks).[58] For two-and-a-half centuries, Spanish galleons crossed the Pacific from Mexico along a route that passed south of Hawaiʻi on their way to Manila. The exact route was kept secret to protect the Spanish trade monopoly against competing powers.
The 1778 arrival of British explorer James Cook was the first documented contact by a European explorer with Hawaii. Cook named the archipelago as the Sandwich Islands in honor of his sponsor John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Cook published the islands' location and rendered the native name as Owyhee. This spelling lives on in Owyhee County, Idaho. It was named after three native Hawaiian members of a trapping party who went missing in that area. The Owyhee Mountains were also named for them.[59] Hard to believe three native Hawaiians would come here to explore or trap. ? Men.
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