...Hallelujah Multiple wildfires that began on June 28, 2015, are ongoing in parts of Washington state. As of September 3, 2015 as many as 3,000 firefighters were deployed against fires that had burned over 900,000 acres (3,600 km2) of land.[2][5] On August 21, President Barack Obama declared the fires a federal emergency.[6] Because of the enormous extent of the fire activity, for the first time in Washington state history, officials asked residents to volunteer to assist in fighting the wildfires.[6] By August 24, the Okanogan Complex fire had become the largest fire complex in Washington State history.[7] According to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, by August 25 wildfires continued to burn actively with 66 large fire complexes burning nearly 1.6 million acres in 11 states[2] with 29,000 firefighters "battling some 100 large blazes across the drought-and heat-stricken West, including Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and California.[5] By August 25, the 17th Field Artillery Brigade of the United States Army had deployed two hundred soldiers from Joint Base Lewis–McChord to help fight the fires[2] and 4,000 volunteers were drafted in to help the professionals in WashingtJune[edit] By June 23, there had already been 313 wildfires across the state.[9] Governor's action[edit] Governor Jay Inslee issued a proclamation on June 26, declaring a state of emergency to exist in all Washington state counties, implementing the Washington State Comprehensive...
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...Dad we just wanna enter into your courts with Thanks and Praise, Dad you are worthy, we are so thankful for everything you have done for us on this day, in our past, and what you will do for us concerning our future. We lift you up and exalt your Holy Name. We magnify your Holy Name. To God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit, all the Glory be given unto you. We thank you for our lives, our children, our jobs, our homes, the material things you have created and given us. We thank you for your love and we thank you that we are Your friends if we do what you command us to do. Hallejuah, You no longer call us servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, You have called us your friends, for everything that you have learned from your Father, you have made known to us. We thank you Jesus. We thank you for always making sure our needs are taking care of. It always look like we are not going to make it but your Word says, you know what we need before we ask for it, your Word says, don’t worry about our life, what we will eat, what we will drink, don’t worry about our bodies and what we will wear. Dad your word says, for you know the amount of hairs on our head, if you know that surely you know all of our needs and desires. I thank You Dad, that you have provided these things. As a father it is your obligation to make sure we have the basic needs of life just like a natural parent so I thank you that just like a natural child doesn’t have to go to their parents for basic...
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...An Introductory Note by V.V. Raman We are multi-dimensional creatures. Even as biological entities we have several layers of existence: physical, intellectual, psychological, emotional, and yes, spiritual too. By the last I mean an inner experience and longing to be connected with the Cosmos. This longing expresses itself in a variety of ways, in most instances as a religious call. Evolutionary biologists and cultural psychologists may explain this away in the paradigms that are satisfactory for understanding the observed world. For practitioners, however, religious yearning derives from an external intangible source that is not directly amenable to empirical verification. If there can be neutrinos and dark energy that defy easy detection even through powerful and sophisticated instruments, one could argue, why can’t there be other intangibles whose existence is beyond meters and scopes? The matter continues to be debated, but this is not our concern here. No matter what the source, this heart-felt beckoning and fulfilling framework almost defines the religious person’s existence. There are many in our group who are religious persons. Religion informs and inspires the values and visions that are part of one’s existence. It provides a backdrop for one’s life, present and future, terrestrial and beyond, real and visualized. The spiritual yearning has taken concrete forms in human history as different religions with deep historical, geographical cultural links. Though...
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