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the original 12-hour clock 1. Find a clock, preferably a large one, that you don't mind taking apart. 2. Disassemble the clock, removing its movement, face, and hands. 3. Decide whether you want your 24-hour clock to have midnight on the top or bottom. 4. Find a 24-hour clock face online that fits with this decision or design your own face. 5. Measure the size of the old clock face and adjust your new one to approximately the same dimensions. the 24-hour clock face 6. Print your 24-hour clock face. I printed mine out at Walmart as a 16"x20" photo. 7. Cut it to size, if necessary. 8. Find a 24-hour clock movement. I ordered mine from Klockit.com. 9. Find hour and minute hands (and a second hand, if you want), paying attention to how long the hands need to be to fit the face. I ordered mine online from the same website: Klockit.com. 10. Assemble your clock, using the new face, new movement, new hands, and old clock frame. If you ordered the movemen...

by Martha Snell Nicholson I trust Him for my daily bread The keeping of my precious dead, The wiping out of all my sin, My going out, my coming in. I trust Him for the grace to bear This pain and weariness and care, I trust Him with this laboring breath, And with my ancient fear of death. Within the anguish of my mind His purpose and His love I find, Nor will He fail to give me strength Which meets the need of each day's length. In the day and in the night, In the darkness and the light, I trust the guidance of His hand Through ways I cannot understand, Until at last, earth's shadows gone, I shall awake, some glorious dawn, And in the brightness of His face Begin to understand His grace! "The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped" Psalm 28:7 KJV

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us , and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." (King James Version) "Sometimes we don't think taking our eyes off of Jesus can do us much harm. It does. . . . we wouldn't be so prone to sin if we consider what Christ endured" Joy Bickle

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow April 2009 When the warm sun, that brings Seed-time and harvest, has returned again, 'T is sweet to visit the still wood, where springs     The first flower of the plain.     I love the season well, When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell     The coming-on of storms. April 2012     From the earth's loosened mould The sapling draws its sustenance, and thrives; Though stricken to the heart with winter's cold,     The drooping tree revives.     The softly-warbled song Comes from the pleasant woods, and colored wings Glance quick in the bright sun, that moves along     The forest openings.     When the bright sunset fills April 2013 The silver woods with light, the green slope throws Its shadows in the hollows of the hills,     And wide the upland glows.     And when ...

Video:   Apple Watch Edition - Gold Audio: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring  (parts of the prologue) "all good stories deserve embellishment " Gandalf in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

by William Billings The Lord is risen indeed! Hallelujah! Now is Christ risen from the dead, And become the first fruits of them that slept. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! And did he rise? And did he rise? Did he rise? Hear it, ye nations! Hear it, O ye dead! He rose, he rose, he rose, he rose, He burst the bars of death, And triumphed o'er the grave. Then, then, then I rose, Then I rose, then I rose, then I rose, Then first humanity triumphant Past the crystal ports of light, And seized eternal youth. Men all immortal hail, hail, heaven, All lavish of strange gifts to man, Thine's all the glory, man's the boundless bliss. "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." 1 Corinthians 15:19-20 KJV

by Henry van Dyke Let me but do my work from day to day,   In field or forest, at the desk or loom,   In roaring market-place or tranquil room; Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray,   "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom;   Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way." Then shall I see it not too great, nor small,   To suit my spirit and to prove my powers;   Then shall I cheerful greet the labouring hours, And cheerful turn, when the long shadows fall At eventide, to play and love and rest, Because I know for me my work is best. "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men" Colossians 3:23 ESV

Linguistic The Hebrew alphabet contains 22 letters. 22 is XXII in Roman numerals and 二十二 in Chinese symbols. Mathematical 22 is  10110 in the binary numbering system,  26 in octal, and 16 in  hexadecimal. Twenty-two is an even composite number,   a pentagonal number, a centered heptagonal number,  a central polygonal number,  a Perrin number,  an Erdős–Woods number, a Smith number in base 10,  the sixth discrete semiprime, the fourth in the (2 × q) family, the fifth composite number found in the 7-aliquot tree, and  the aliquot sum of 20 and 38. I assumed there would be no math :-/ Biblical In Joshua 19, the tribe of Asher were allotted 22 cities with their villages. Jair was one of Israel's judges for 22 years. The kings of Israel Jeroboam I and Ahab both reigned for 22 years. Source /  CC BY-SA 3.0, unmodified The kings of Judah Ahaziah and Amon began their reigns at the age of 22. Sports ...

Love is symbolized by a heart. Joy is bright like the sun. Peace— like a river. Patience  is associated with waiting—hence, the hourglass. Kindness is demonstrated by an outstretched helping hand. Goodness is foundational. Faithfulness means that you continue forward without turning, like an arrow. Gentleness is symbolized with a gentle circular shape. Circles are gentle because they don't have sharp corners like other shapes. Self-control is the repression of one's own desires for the glory of God. So the shape's core points downward, but its sides point upward—"He must increase, but I must decrease." (John 3:30) "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23 ESV

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. "Pleasant words are as an honeycomb,     sweet to the soul, and health to the bones." Proverbs 16:24 KJV

Little House in Dusseldorf 1856 View of Valaam Island. Kukko 1859-1860 Ivan Shishkin and A. Guinet in the Studio on the Island of Valaam 1860 Windmill in the Field 1861 Forest Landscape. Road 1876 A Rye Field 1878 Edge of the Forest 1879 At the Edge of a Pine Forest 1882 Corner of Overgrown Garden. Goutweed-grass 1884 By the Seashore 1889 Morning in a Pine Forest 1889 Haystacks, Preobrazhenskoe 1890 Winter 1890 In the Wild North 1891 Rain in an Oak Forest 1891 After the Storm. Mary Howie 1891 Forest Cemetery 1893 The Pine Forest 1895 Kama near Yelabuga 1895 Mill in the Forest, Preobrazhenskoe 1897 Mast-Tree Grove 1898 "This is my Father’s world, the birds their carols raise, The morning light, the lily white, declare their Maker’s praise." Maltbie Davenport Babcock

"it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: and I will remember my covenant" Genesis 9:14-15 KJV

"Old Hammer Found on Honister Crag" © Copyright Iain Lees Licensed for reuse under CC BY-SA 2.0 Album:   Handiwork Artist:  Tom McConnell Year:  2014 I am a hammer that can help to build this land, But I need the Architect Who’s written out the plan. And I am an instrument. I’m broken but redeemed, And I was made to play my Saviour’s symphony. Alleluia! I am not my own. I was bought with the blood of the Righteous One. And I was designed with His work in mind, So I can delight in Him until the day is done. Oh, I’ve never earned a single breath that I have breathed, And yet they keep on coming and they do not cease. And when the morning comes and I open up my eyes, I know that I did not commission this sunrise. Alleluia! I am not my own. I was bought with the blood of the Righteous One. And I was designed with His grace in mind, So I can abide in Him until the day is done. We are all pieces of handiwork. We were made to work, so let’s ge...

Producer: Mark Ashurst Year: 2015 Music: "Goodbye" from Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." John 1:5 ESV

"These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. "I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them , and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou dids...

Album: The Journey Artist: Stuart Townend Year: 2011 "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ" Ephesians 2:4-5

Album: Dark Sky Island ("Echoes in Rain" was released as a single before the album release) Artist: Enya Year: 2015 "I will go home to my father" Luke 15:18 NLT

daily reading:   2 chapters per day left column:  Psalm 65,  Genesis-Job, Isaiah-Malachi, any OT chapter, any NT chapter right column:  Psalm 151, Apocrypha, New Testament, Psalms-Song of Solomon, gospels memorization:  Philippians 2:1-11 (during the last five days of 2015) "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." John 14:23 KJV