Finding the Balance of Harmony

“The closest approximation to truth
is found usually
in the mean of extreme views.”

“In the light of fuller knowledge it
will be thought that the claim has lapsed,
or only remains as a pious belief
prevailing among an uncritical minority. …
Whose mental bias predisposes them
to the defense of exploded views.
In such a case, however,
an indiscriminate rejection
is not much less superficial
than an unenquiring acquiescence of a non-proven claim.
The history of debated questions
of this kind
teaches another lesson,
and the closest approximation to truth
is found usually
in the mean of extreme views.”

The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah (page 117)

Blythe Miller’s Advice

Setting Your Horse Up for Every Next-Jump

Heels: DOWN and OUT in front of you!!!

Blythe Miller

Equine Inactive Side of Infinity

the. “Slow Walk”

The Equine Inactive Side of Infinity

Refers to a stagnant mental process.

Infinity expands perpetually from one point in all directions.

Example of a Horse Stuck in the Inactive Side of Infinity:

A horse who slow-walks off of the track with the intention of being near other horses who are acting-up, therefore, giving them an excuse to act-up as well.

The Horse’s Reason for Doing This:

It Is Three-Pronged

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Shepp’s Training Program

Which training method did Jonathan Sheppard employ?

When somebody complained how Jonathan Sheppard would never explain his training program to them, this was my response:

Well, some of us understood his training program which was essentially reverse-engineered in congruency with the horse’s running date, its condition, the competition it would be up against, along with the expectations of its upcoming performance while always keeping the race AFTER that performance in mind.

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FGCC Tyrany

“…And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment– the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution…”
-JFK

A Letter sent to the Tyrants of the Florida Gaming Control Commission

After experiencing the abuse of power and Conduct Unbecoming by these three men:

(images do not appear in the formal letter.)

Our office sent the following letter to the Florida Gaming Control Commission:

Law Office of Lonesome Glory Publications

February 4, 2024

RE: Case #O33B46A22Z-24

As a former Jockeys Guild member and journalist, I am dedicated to the integrity of our sport.

On or about February 2, 2024 at Tampa Bay Downs, (located at 11225 Race Track Rd N Tampa, FL 33626 United States), a thoroughbred horse owner informed me that he politely asked two men who were wearing the FGCC insignia on their shirts who they were. 

The above mentioned owner informed me that the two men laughed at him “smugly,” then, walked away.

These are the two men:

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Candle In The Wind

“…I would have liked to love you,
but I was just a kid…”

“Goodbye Norma Jeane
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

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A Leveled-Up Experience

There are moments when an athlete experiences this:

Not “Doing” it:

… the feeling of floating-

watching it all happen as
from the outside,
looking-in;

(Like watching a movie)

… not doing it,

but watching your body do it

and learning from it.
Chip Van Hassel

Horse Racing in Decline

My decision to retire began on my way to the track on a horse for John Servis.

The Horse Racing Industry Is In Decline!

With Anticipation

We were living the dream- I was getting paid top-dollar to ride for one of the top trainers- part of a formidable, respected team.

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Look the Part To Be the Part

When You are pretending to be, “that”, you are, indeed, that character which you play!
While the scene is being filmed, the only reality which exists is what the camera sees.

Hot Riff

“Look the part.
Act the part.
Be the part.

Timothy Wyatt

Circular Connection

Breathe-In
Moderately-Controlled

Make the aura around you flow of purple water-
It’s current- Strong,
Revolutionary of itself.
When you notice that your focus has been lost
Breathe-In
Moderately-Controlled
down through your Sacral Chakra,
Circulating the inside of the chakra;
condensing it’s
outer physical membrane.

Dakkuan
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Reserved Mantra

“Keeping it Reserved”


“Stillness in Motion”

Jose Sameñego

Wrists broken-over,
“Praying Mantis hands”-

“Keeping everything re-chambered”

Dakkuan
Hot Riff; Jonathan Sheppard; George Strawbridge, Agustin Stables

Templar Life

“The fine vocation of the sword and lance,
With the gross aims, and body-bending toil
Of a poor brotherhood, who walk the earth
Pitied.”

SOURCE

Inflation is a Lie.

We send, “money,” to Ukraine but send words to the Middle East. Imagine how foolish people are right now, believing that inflation is a real thing. Think about it: if we printed “too much” money, nobody would refuse it saying, “that money isn’t worth anything because there is too much it it.” … how STUPID are people to believe that “inflation,” is a cause and effect scenario? Inflation is simply lying about the value of a piece of paper and saying that a banana is worth more of those pieces of paper, as the result of having too many of those pieces of paper!

Chip Van Hassel

Legend of Clermont College

“…have no relation to Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master- degrees, which were constructed for the general class of Masons. …”

Legend of Clermont College

Snapshot

Mike Tyson on Fear

“’Cus used to get turned on when I told him that I was afraid and I might be a coward. He loved that. He knew that would feed into my fear base and he worked everything off fear. Cus wanted you to react like a robot so that when he said something, you’d do it on command. Cus showed me the difference between fear and intimidation. Being intimidated prevents you from performing at the highest level you’re capable of. But fear can help you ascend to great heights. ‘Be afraid of your opponent personally but don’t be afraid to hurt him,’ he told me. What people don’t realize is that when controlled properly fear can take you to a level of euphoria where you believe you’re invincible. Very few people can get to that level. But when you do, a weird aberration of nature takes place and you’re sent to a level of invincible proportion.’”

Mike Tyson

Path of the Righteous Horseman

It is accurate to say that all the Old School horsemen are all gone. Just as capitalism no longer guarantees freedom (for the middle class), working hard in aspiration of earning an adequately-compensatory wage deems to be in incongruence with sanity, according to the current, socioeconomic reality. The delegation of a man of higher caliber insists that his such sojourn be ambulated, or accompanied by, similarly-spirited, likely-educated and strongly-willed, gentile warriors of both the sword and the book.

4th Amendment

“The right of the people
to be secure
in their
persons,
houses,
papers,
and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated,

and no Warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause,

supported by Oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons
or things
to be seized.”

U.S. Constitution

PRINCES OF the SYMBOLIC JERUSALEM

“man may make the woods and mountains his Churches and Temples, and worship God with a devout gratitude, and with works of charity and beneficence to his fellow-men.”

“We no longer expect to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem. To us it has become but a symbol. To us the whole world is God’s Temple, as is every upright heart. To establish all over the world the New Law and Reign of Love, Peace, Charity, and Toleration, is to build that Temple, most acceptable to God, in erecting which Masonry is now engaged. No longer needing to repair to Jerusalem to worship, nor to offer up sacrifices and shed blood to propitiate the Deity, man may make the woods and mountains his Churches and Temples, and worship God with a devout gratitude, and with works of charity and beneficence to his fellow-men. Wherever the humble and contrite heart silently offers up its adoration, under the overarching trees, in the open, level meadows, on the hill-side, in the glen, or in the city’s swarming streets; there is God’s House and the New Jerusalem.”

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“Chakra” Definition

“Inhibition and freedom, tension and relaxation, are the tides of the orange chakra.”
-Christopher Penczak

“Chakra is Sanskrit for “spinning wheel,”
referring to the spinning wheels of light within the energy body.”

Christopher Penczak; The Inner Temple of Witchcraft (page 205)

What is Dynamic Tension?

“Dynamic Tension is the iron wire of Kung Fu, retaining the flow of Tao, as rocks give way to water, but only over time.”
-Chip Van Hassel

Dynamic Tension is a self-resistance exercise,
(or method,) which pits muscle against muscle.

The practitioner tenses the muscles of a given body part
and then
moves the body part against the tension
as if a heavy weight were being lifted

To Increase Your Power, watch this short clip:

Never-Ending-River of Breath

“No need to block beyond the shoulders.”
—Master Brian Gray

“Always thinking about the River-
The unchangeable, the constant, not-judging-
forever-force.”

Dakkuan

Exercise:

Watch breath right now,
visualizing pushing the Chi down
Constantly.

This dynamic tension
is centered.
(Iron Palm,) Pushing down on the Upward chi of Earth.

Breathing is the never-ending river that orchestrates chi wherever it is instantaneously needed.

“Make the entire body solid and reactive.”

Dakkuan

“No need to block beyond shoulders.”

Sifu, Grand Master Brian Gray

South Carolina Statute Regarding Equine Liability

§ 47-9-730:
“Under South Carolina law, an equine activity sponsor or equine professional is not liable for an injury to or the death of a participant in an equine activity resulting from an inherent risk of equine activity, pursuant to Article 7, Chapter 9 of Title 47, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976”

Trainers Already Have Immunity and do NOT Need to Purchase Insurance for their Riders. SEE:

South Carolina Statute Title 47; Article 7, Chapter 9 “Equine Immunity”



Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976 Annotated. Title 47. Animals, Livestock and Poultry. Chapter 9. Livestock Generally. Article 7. Equine Liability Immunity.

Summary:

This South Carolina section provides that an equine activity sponsor or an equine professional is not liable for an injury to or the death of a participant resulting from an inherent risk of equine activity. The statute also requires the visible displaying of warning signs that alert participants

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Cigar in the 1995 Breeders’ Cup

“…followed by Tinner’s Way and Concern is still last; three furlongs to go. CIGAR!!! Cigar Makes His Move; and he Sweeps to the lead with a dramatic rush!”

Allen Paulson named most of his racehorses after aircraft check points and aviation terms.

“Cigar,” is a mnemonic that refers to a pre-takeoff checklist performed by Untied States Air Force pilots. It stands for:

• Controls
• Instruments
• Gas
• Airplane secure
• Run-up.

About James Madison

“…Madison was the correlation between education and liberty. He famously wrote,

‘Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw light over the public mind, which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.’”

SOURCE

example of peace(-in-action)

Shaolin Monks’ Celibacy

As the Monk chooses celibacy,
his focus shifts.

His eyes are no longer
clouded-over
by selfish yearnings
of lust.

His newly-found perception
differs from that of the laymen’s’;

for the monk is removed from selfish ambition.
{Therefore,}

The Monk’s frequency is non-combative.

Non-combativeness
nullifies the natural,
aggressive
synapses
by which most men
are predisposed

Chip Van Hassel

Employers Taking Taxes Out of Your Paycheck is a Crime!

It violates: 10 U.S. Code § 921 – Art. 121.

Larceny and wrongful appropriation

(a) Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other person any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind—

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Neuro-Muscle Memory

Mental processes induce physical processes.
Example:
Being annoyed tenses muscles.
Allowing yourself to stew in annoyance creates muscle memory which becomes physically stressful.

A Dent of Deed

…”the body, the mind, the spirit,
flows as does water.”…

It starts with the in-breath and begins in the out-breath.
The continuous cycle is it’s own revolution,
it’s own change.
Hardened by it’s own hardness,
the body, the mind, the spirit,
flows as does water.
Water can wear rock away
even though rock can stop water.
Perserverence of the flow
proves phusical changd-
Maybe just a dent,
of deed.

Chip Van Hassel

The Answer Pits Itself In The Apple.

“…If you ask for Wisdom,
God’s words are Silence…”

If you ask for strength,

He will give it to you by weakening you.
If you ask for guidance,

His guidance is usually wrought through confusion.
{DISCHORD}

If you ask for Wisdom,
His words are Silence.

Dakkun

Taxation Without Representation

“87,000 new IRS agents.

By the way, those agents will be trained to use armed force.

That can’t be good!!””

We sent a letter to one of our collogues requesting advice.

The response from our collogue was a bitter taste of the truth; supportive, inspiring, and reminding us

Rome was nether built, nor torn down in one day!

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When Larceny Became, “The American Way”

Why has the American worker allowed for it’s employer to steal from it on the daily basis?

Correct Me If I Am Wrong!

You’ve Heard the Phrase Before:

“Taxation is Theft!”

Well, that is true!

When employers take taxes out of your paycheck, they are committing Larceny!

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Ghost Post!

The Ghost Continues

So, after the Doug Fout Debacle, I ended up dealing with the frustrating pain and anguish of dealing with the Florida Gaming Commission.
The red-tape of bullshit brings a man’s tolerance to it’s knees
as he listens to people tell him,

“I understand. I’m sorry, and I understand; but I cannot help you.

Lemme transfer you to somebody else who understands, is sorry, but,… they won’t help you, either!”

Every Asshole on the phone

They act like,

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Employers Taking Taxes Out of Your Paycheck is a Crime!

“…with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person of the use…”

It violates: 10 U.S. Code § 921 – Art. 121.

Larceny and wrongful appropriation

(a) Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other person any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind—

Continue reading “Employers Taking Taxes Out of Your Paycheck is a Crime!”

-Purple Water Chakra

Breathe-In
Moderately-Controlled

Make the aura around you flow of purple water-
It’s current- Strong,
Revolutionary of itself.
When you notice that your focus has been lost,
Breathe-In
Moderately-Controlled
down through your Sacral Chakra,
Circulating the inside of the chakra;
condensing it’s
outer physical membrane.

Chip Van Hassel

Use Your Hands; Not Your Mind.

“You don’t get paid for having the idea;
you get paid for producing the Result.”
-Chip Van Hassel

“Culture is missing the Grand Power of Motivation towards the unknown-
that physical action of advancing towards fear,
pushing ourselves to our limits,
so we may therefore push ourselves beyond those limits
to create more advantageous precipices from which, thereupon, we may elevate our efforts;
for we are rewarded
with the strength, courage and some wisdom
which allows us to experience
the Great Power of Motivation
which operates the Sun and the Moon.”

Chip Van Hassel

“You don’t get paid for having the idea;
you get paid for producing the Result.”

Me

Gary Vaynerchuk scrolled past this!

“LEGACY IS GREATER THAN CURRENCY.” -Gary Vaynerchuk

I’ll Never Get Gary Vee’s Attention This Way!!!

Mr. Vaynerchuk,

Your time is valuable!
I spend hours building my website
Who would pay
to build their sites using wordpress? Would you in any capacity?

Check out Gary’s Site:

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Where Are Fellow Poor Young Soldiers Of Christ?

…However, the Poor FellowSoldiers Of Christ are not young; they are all old men with grey beards.
-Enter: The Young Tyler.
He calls himself a, P.F.S.C.,” yet he has zero poverty; he has food on his plate, shoes on his feet and a roof over his head.
Neither is nor.
They Young Tyler is Apprenticed into Entership- the state of arriving to an unfamiliar environment, thought paradigm and yet-to-be (if ever) -seen set of circumstances.
This “Entership,” is an internship into the realm of: “Void of Ego and Personal Gain,” therefore, is the most honorably practice!

Dakkuan

Faith and Deeds

“faith…if it is not accompanied by action,
is dead.”

What good is it,
my brothers and sisters,
if someone claims to have faith
but has no deeds?
Can such faith save them?
Suppose a brother or a sister is without
clothes and daily food.
If one of you says to them,
“Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,”
but does nothing about their physical needs,
what good is it?
In the same way,
faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action,
is dead.

JAMES 2:14-17

Trick Or Treason!

“…The change that has occurred within the racing industry is not something that is lasting.”

-Retired Journeyman, Christopher Van Hassel

I had always planned to train racehorses after I retired from my riding career, but I had not predicted that the racing business would change the ways in which it has. The change that has occurred within the racing industry is not something that is lasting. Why do I say that?

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Legendary horse racing announcers share Kentucky Derby memories

Tom Durkin, Dave Johnson, Larry Collmus and Mike Battaglia share their favorite memories of calling the Kentucky Derby over the years.

Rich Strike
Rich Strike

Essence of the Fellow Craft Degree

“…because their Beehive Mind has absolutely corrupted the Craft…”

The essence of the FC Degree is the ablative of means through which Masters operate.

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The “Throat/Root/Triangle” Exercise:

“It is an Art, indeed, for it requires imagination before any physical components by deed arise to fruition.”

The throat//root chakra exercise begins the long-awaited trip

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Racetrack Commissioners Interfere With Your Personal Life:

holidays are no longer “working days” and won’t be considered “counted” days.

(Copied and edited by Van Hassel Conditioners)


By July 1, 2022 all licensed racetrack personnel are being required to register with HISA.

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Judge Andrew P. Napolitano Wrote

“The time has come to nullify government interferences with personal autonomy by disregarding them, and to threaten seriously to leave and ignore the governments that hate our freedoms. If we don’t do this, make way for voluntary servitude.”

“I have been writing for years asking if we still have the U.S. Constitution. That issue has come into sharper focus in the past 18 months as mayors and governors have created dictatorial powers and exercised those powers to interfere with personal autonomy in America.

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A Day With Diogenes

by: Terry Ballard

Announcer: Good afternoon, Diogenes. In keeping with your
reputation as a non-conformist, I see that you keep your bathtub
outside of your house.
Diogenes: The bathtub is my house.
Announcer: I see. Well there must be some advantage to that.
Diogenes: Certainly. No window can give a view like this, and if
the neighborhood goes bad, I can just walk off with the house.

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Vocabulary Word: “Hierophant”

Hierophant

A hierophant (Ancient Greek: ἱεροφάντης) is a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy.

As such, a hierophant is an interpreter of sacred mysteries and arcane principles.

The word comes from ancient Greece, where it was constructed from the combination of ta hiera (‘the holy’) and phainein (‘to show’).

MARK Antony

“…And men have lost their reason…”

Friends, Romans, countrymen,

lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar,

not to praise him.

[I.I.I.]
The evil that men do

lives after them;
The good

is oft

interred with their bones;

Caesar’s Friend and Murderer
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Click

“Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God”

Remain Ordered As Directed.

Pass on your orders.

“Late one half moon night, I heard footsteps.

The sharp click of heels. Silence.

Another click. More silence.

Twenty-one footsteps.

Click.

Twenty-one seconds of silence.

Click.

Twenty-one seconds of silence.

Twenty-one more steps.

With each step, my war is over.”

Ride Free, or Die.


Being Michelle: Deaf and Autistic, Wrongfully Imprisoned!

Deaf and Denied an Interpreter in Florida State Prison

Watch the Trailer.

I love Michelle. And I believe her story empowers all of us to recognize our own strengths and innate abilities even when our surrounding culture and systems do not. The systems must change in the United States and globally to support everyone.

Love

BEING MICHELLE follows the astounding journey of a deaf and disabled woman who survived incarceration under unimaginable circumstances by a system that refused to accommodate her needs as a deaf person with autism.

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JAMES 1:2-4 

“Let perseverance finish her work so you may be mature and complete.”

Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

And let perseverance be perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

JAMES 1:2-4
we don’t need guns to stand for freedom

Too Many Instructions

“Let Go of any reigns which are not currently in your hands!”

Expecting the Impossible

“A Trainer
can give
enough instructions
to paralyze the rider.”
The best way to find synchronicity is to Trust,
To Allow
and to
Let Go
of any reigns which are not currently in your hands.

Chip Van Hassel

Many trainers expect perfection every second, every step.
Elephants poop in the room whilst perfection is only witnessed briefly in moments displayed as result of training and effort towards the delayed gratification of raising to the next degree.

Chip Van Hassel

Too much is too much.

Perfection occurs
only
throughout humble circumstance.

Chip Van Hassel

“Mission Accomplished”

“We don’t need guns to stand for Freedom.”

“Peace is so simple in philosophy and motive, it therefore stands as mankind’s Ultimate Goal.

What is stopping each individual man from acting-out that goal on the day he is called to go to war?

Who is empowering the jailors to jail the man who refuses to wage war?

What single man is the jailor?”

Chip Van Hassel

The Perfect Ride by Gary Stevens

May you have the perfect ride, Gary. Christopher A. Van Hassel

The Orange Chakra

“Chakra is Sanskrit for “spinning wheel,”
referring to the spinning wheels of light within the energy body.”
-Christopher Penczak

“Inhibition and freedom, tension and relaxation, are the tides of the orange chakra.”

Christopher Penczak; The Inner Temple of Witchcraft (page 205)

Open Fist

“If your mind is like an open hand,

you will adapt quickly.

If your mind is closed like a fist,

you can only punch,

and you cannot climb the cliffs.

Train the mind as you train your fists:

condition them so they are not easily injured upon striking,

however, allow them to be open quickly

in order to grapple your opponent.”

Dakkuan

James Lopez: Journeyman Jockey, Gentleman and Brother

Anyone would give their last dollar to James Lopez. Whenever you knew you were in his presence, that forever made you feel good. Any time I have ever thought of you, love was the only thing I could feel.

You live on

Forever and Ever.

From An Old Notebook

I don’t remember who I wrote this one about:

 I remember breathing in my boots
on your barn floor.

Each suspended moment lasted more and more;
so I use that education to smell and feel right now,
this moment,
more and longer right now more.

In between the beats of a measure of the heart which never ends nor begun.

Dakkuan

Are You Having Licensing Issues with Florida Racetracks?

If the Florida Gaming Control Commission ever denies your license for, “failure to complete an application,” … Read this!

Experience of Licensing Issues with Florida Racetracks:

1 When obtaining your license to work at Tampa Bay Downs, pay the Florida Gaming Control Commission (FGCC) $37.25 to be fingerprinted, then, pay the FGCC $80.00 to process that application with those fingerprints.

Lonesome Glory Dies After Accident

“The horses he beat were pretty special — not many horses last like he did at that level. He was a great horse who did a lot for our whole family.”

Lonesome Glory, under Blythe Miller, Win the 1995 Breeders' Cup Steeplechase

by Joe Clancy, Jr.

February 26, 2002

The Bloodhorse

American steeplechase legend Lonesome Glory died Feb. 25 from injuries suffered in a paddock accident at trainer Bruce Miller’s farm.

Owned by Kay Jeffords, Lonesome Glory is the only American steeplechase horse to win five Eclipse Awards (1992, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999), and also the only American jumper to earn more than $1 million.

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Protector On High

“For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the foe.”

“From the ends of the earth I call to you,
I call as my heart grows faint;
lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”

PSALMS 61:2