Following Orders

[Lady Christina de Pond]

even if you saw the sheet music I'm playing on you still wouldn't understand it.  

You're right...I don't..

alright smarty cloth i didn't say it was blank

[Sir William Marcus]

This is actually one of about 400 different Templar art shots I have collected for various things....

Yes indeed my brother.  remember we used to have a bunch of them on the old thread.  Just thought I would start posting some of them from time to time. 

[Femme Falchion]

I like that idea Brother William....then we can all interpret/critique the works much like you did with the "Templar fallen in snow" piece.

1.) Is that the bearer?
2.) Wheres the protection for the bearer?
3.) Snow? European campaign perhaps?
4.) Has he survived the battle and this is where he falls?
5.) Could that be fellow brothers in the distance to his rescue or the enemy?
6.) Or it could possibly be "ME!" Laughing my holy hiney off face down in the snow at the the previous post by frere Cliff??

[Sir William Marcus]

We could interpret/critique a few of them for sure

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

That is another awesome picture I didn't have. I add:

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Thought with Sarah Palin's speech, I'd leave this:

Neither party expected of the war, the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the "book" and pray "God", and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must be that offenses come, then woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that terrorism is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both factions this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's a life time of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.


Thanks A. Lincoln for the idea!

[Sir William Marcus]

Deus lo Vult!

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Oops!   

I can't wait for the Action Figures!!!!

[Lady Christina de Pond]

  Rofl nice job on the pics

[Femme Falchion]

Brothers, although God's will seems clear to you and Lady Palin, with humility, may I remind you of God's restraint on the human interpretation of his will

Isaiah 55:8-9: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the Earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Might I reply on my Brothers' behalf with:

KJB Romans 13:4

For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

[Femme Falchion]

An excellent and timely passage to share Warrior Monk and esteemed Council Member, it fortifies my spirit and bolsters my resolve!  (er....with just a few minor adjustments)

My inspired mantra this evening at vespers will be:

Be afraid; for she beareth not the hatchet in vain: for she is the ministress of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

*(refer to current avatar for emphasis)*

[Sir William Marcus]

Rofl nice job on the pics

I must confess that I do not possess the skills, nor can I take credit for the creation of the Palin masterpiece I posted.

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Yours bears the Latin Church sounds of an old addage:

"Hell hath no fury, like that of a woman surrounded by a man's world...." 

[Femme Falchion]

that resonates a bit....but let's do justice to the original in it's entirety;

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned,"

(William Congreve, playwright/poet  1697)

p.s.  I've never been scorned