Monthly Archives: January 2014

Character in Action (Ruth 2:5-12 NIV)

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Lillian has shared some great thoughts with us this week.

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5 Boaz asked…, “Who does that young woman belong to?”

6 The overseer replied, “She is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi. 7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.’ She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”

8 So Boaz said to Ruth, “…And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”

10 At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”

11 Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband… 12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

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Finding Hope In a Cold World

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Hidey-Ho, Fun Foto Challengers! This week’s foto prompt from environs west of me and from the land of Cee is FOUND IN NATURE. This year I am taking a bit of a different tac with all  my blog prompts. I have decided to take the prompts and give them new names so as to speak to the audience about what the prompts really say to me as an individual.

I was listening to the radio this morning and the announcer was telling her listeners that the average temperature here in the U.S. is twenty-five degrees colder than normal. It got me thinking that the world is getting colder not just physically but in other ways more spiritual. Still no matter how cold the air (physical or spiritual) around us gets, if we look hard enough we can always find hope.

Black Oaks, Immacualte Heart Of Mary church Winchendon MA

Black Oaks, Immaculate Heart Of Mary Church, Winchendon MA

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” 
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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Rejoicing In the Cold

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, 
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” 
― Alfred Tennyson

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Forest of Ingleside, Winchendon MA

“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be…” 
― William Wordsworth

I hope you enjoyed the photos from nature I found. I pray that one of these quotes filled you with a renewed hope in the world. Remember it’s not what is happening just now but what we hope is to come that counts. Nothing is perfect. As Leonard Cohen quipped, “There is a crack in everything.That’s how the light gets in.” But  I think the mysterious writer to the Hebrews said it best.

“Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.” Heb. 11:1

Hey! Keep the faith fun Foto Challengers and as you do check out Cee’s other contributors at…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Found In Nature

Waiting For What?

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This weeks challenge from “A Word in Your Ear” is WAITING.  There are some great waiting photographs and maybe a few waiting poems as well at

http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-waiting/

Here is what I have to say about wiating….

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“Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is “timing”
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.” 
― Fulton J. Sheen

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“Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.” 
― Carolyn McCulley

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They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength… Isaiah 40:31

This World Is Not My Home

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You need to read this!

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I feel very blessed.  I have a wonderful wife. I live in a nice home.  I have enough food, clothing and shelter.  I enjoyed most of the working career I had.  And I am enjoying the retirement I now have.

 

Yet our days are numbered–literally.  Job says, Man that is born of women is of few days…his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou has appointed the bounds that he cannot pass. (Job 13:1,5)  The old saw nothing is certain but death and taxes is always at least half true.  David said, We are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers. (I Chron. 29:15)  He went on to say, our days on earth are as a shadow, and there is nothing abiding.

When English patriot Sir William Russell went to the scaffold in 1683, he took his watch out of his…

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Heaven Pt. 137: God Knows

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Even now my witness is in heaven.
My advocate is there on high. My friends scorn me,
but I pour out my tears to God. Job 16:19, 20

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     There are times in this life when no other human being can truly understand what we are going through.

Well meaning people can put an arm around us and whisper “I know how you feel. I’ve been there.”

Honestly, though, I have come to understand that each of our trials is different. No one experiences exactly the same emotions even if they go through the same set of circumstances. Every divorce, every bout with cancer, every death of a loved one is different because every one of us is different. We are as unique in our pain as we are in our personhood. In the end that means no one can fully know what we are going through. No one can fully sympathize. No one can jump inside our minds and psychically experience our emotions with us. We are alone in our pain. EXCEPT FOR GOD!

You see Jesus can read minds. He alone in all the universe fully connects with us in our difficulty. He is witness to our deepest and most private pains. He is God who can be WITH us like nobody else can be with us. He is not just beside us. He is in us and GOD KNOWS.

Not only does God know,  He cares. He is our advocate. He is on our side. The Bible goes so far as to say it this way, “Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.” Rom. 8:34 NLT

God knows your heartache even when you feel nobody else “gets it.”

Don’t give up. Trust that the judge of all the Earth will do right by you!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Man-Made Items

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Hello All,

I am trying this year (as in resolving) to spend a little bit more time each week working on my creative gifts. 2013 was a year of establishing foundations for new ministry. In 2014 I hope to work at placing ministers within the infrastructures I helped to create so that I don’t have to do quite so much of the day to day work. My hope is that will free up some time so that I might dabble my way back into the artistic process I love so much.

Check out some other dabblers with me at Cee’s Fun Foto Stop

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/01/14/cees-fun-foto-challenge-man-made-items/

Here are my dabblations for the week!

The cities of men- Delft The Netherlands

The cities of men- Delft The Netherlands

 

The creations of men

The creations of men

The food of men

The food of men

 

 

 

Pastor Wrinkles: House On Fire Pt. 34

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The Word of God is a bridge that connects Earth with Heaven and Heaven with Earth.- Joseph Elon Lillie

The Word of God is a bridge that connects Earth with Heaven and Heaven with Earth.- Joseph Elon Lillie

 

Debby Robin and I have been having a great spiritual conversation regarding God’s will in conflict. If you missed the beginning of that discussion you can find it here

http://wp.me/p39vIx-Sj

We continue our discussion of the Book of Acts as we turn now to Acts 16:1-5

Paul adds Timothy to the team:

Paul went first to Derbe and then to Lystra, where there was a young disciple named Timothy. His mother was a Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek. 2 Timothy was well thought of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium,3 so Paul wanted him to join them on their journey. In deference to the Jews of the area, he arranged for Timothy to be circumcised before they left, for everyone knew that his father was a Greek. 4 Then they went from town to town, instructing the believers to follow the decisions made by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem. 5 So the churches were strengthened in their faith and grew larger every day.

By most accounts Timothy was a teen-ager at the time Paul brought him onto the team.

From these verses what inferences can be made about why Paul would choose to bring such a young man on to his team? Do you think bringing Timothy on board had anything to do with his recent refusal to allow John Mark back on the team? What role do you imagine Timothy played?

 

 

Share Your World 2014 Week 2

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It’s time for another webisode of “Share Your World With Cee Cee” !

If you are just tuning in to Lillie-Put for the first time ” SYWWCC” is a weekly exercise in self-revelation hosted by none other than the world-famous Cee Neuner from Portland Oregon. Each week Cee asks us four questions (some simple, some probing). We answer.

Why don’t you check out all of Cee’s contributors and learn something of them when you are done learning about me. Simply go to        http://ceenphotography.com/2014/01/13/share-your-world-2014-week-2/

Now on to today’s questions!

If you had to move to a country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?

Oh! there are so many choices. I love the landscape of Iceland and I would really love to get to know the” Land of the Midnight Sun” a bit better; But I know people in The Netherlands now, so I know I would be welcomed there and while the sun doesn’t shine until midnight,  in the summer it is still light until 10 P.M. . Austrailia or New Zealand have also always held a fascination for me ! What about Ireland? I could totally live there or maybe the Scottish highlands or the Lakes region of England…Wales, Wales is nice. Maybe I’ll just stay where I am and travel to all these places for vacations!

Music or silence while working?

I like to listen to “Whisperings” an internet piano station while I work.

What is your favorite color?

Cerullian blue at least that’s my favorite today. Tomorrow it might be taupe.

Do you have a bucket list? What are your three items? A bucket list are things you want to do before you die.

Hmm. I would like to sit on a tropical beach before I die, ride a horse through a mountain pass and publish a few books. I am not too concerned about getting all this done before I die though. I plan to be resurrected and then I’ll have time and eternity to have these experiences.