Get Faith
Acts chapter 10 "Then Peter said, "Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?" So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ." It is possible we do not call on the Holy Spirit enough in our efforts to bring all people to Christ. Prior to this verse it says the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. Let us pray today that the Holy Spirit moves through all people to bring us to the truth through Jesus Christ so that we can spend our lives and eternity with God. Peace
On this day
1989 I was gathering sheep from church, children that lived near me would come to my house. On this day the Gallagher kids - Wayne, Farah, Sally and another whose namehmm I don't recall, came over to play and hang out. I was hosing down the outside of the house and windows and I seem to remember the kids got wet somehow. Joey, from across the street came over and spent the rest of the day and had dinner. I think I always set a place for him thinking he would show up and most days he did. The nice thing is that now, 30 years later I am still in touch with Wayne and his wife and children, and their grandmother on Facebook. I also keep up with Joe. Social Media can be a wonderful thing. Nicole was so used to having a lot of kids around, she still surrounds herself at camp with kids. History does repeat itself.
1675 - Frederick William of Brandenburg crushed the Swedes. I'm thinking hockey??
Bhutan
Bhutan had a population of 797,765 people in 2016.
[128] Bhutan has a median age of 24.8 years.
[41] There are 1,070 males to every 1,000 females. The literacy rate in Bhutan is 59.5 percent.
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Ethnic groups[edit]
Bhutanese people primarily consist of the
Ngalops and
Sharchops, called the Western Bhutanese and Eastern Bhutanese respectively. Although the
Sharchops are slightly larger in demographic size, the
Ngalops dominate the political sphere, as the King and the political elite belong to this group.
[130] The Ngalops primarily consist of Bhutanese living in the western part of the country. Their culture is closely related to that of Tibet. Much the same could be said of the
Sharchops, the largest group, who traditionally follow the
Nyingmapa rather than the official
Drukpa Kagyu form of
Tibetan Buddhism. In modern times, with improved transportation infrastructure, there has been much intermarriage between these groups.
The
Lhotshampa, meaning "southerner Bhutanese", are a heterogeneous group of mostly
Nepalese ancestry. It was claimed that they constituted 45% of the population in the 1988 census,
[131] and include migrants from as early as the 1890s to as recent as the 1980s, who have fought a bitter war with Bhutan over rights to abode, language, and dress. In the early 1970s, intermarriage between the
Lhotshampas Bhutanese and mainstream Bhutanese society was encouraged by the government, but after the late 1980s, the Bhutanese government forced about 108,000 Lhotshampas from their homes, seized their land, and expelled them to refugee camps.
[85] Consequently, there has been mass emigration from Bhutan (both forced and voluntary) and
ethnic cleansing in Bhutan resulting in hundreds of thousands of people left
stateless in
refugee camps of Nepal.
[85] Currently, Lhotsampa are estimated to make up approximately 20% of Bhutan's population.
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I have a hard time understanding human nature. In a country of under 1 million peoples (like the size of Detroit) they are separated into group that are at war with each. It is hard to keep hope for peace in this world, isn't it? Fortunately some of us find our peace elsewhere (see Get Faith)
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable Happy Birthday Chris S!
