For all those struggling their way through right now! May God bless you as you build boundaries and tear down strongholds!
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth/ Harvest
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth or the Harvest Season
I love Cee’s Foto Challenge this week. The harvest season has very special meaning in Christendom. It speaks to revival, gathering in, hope and salvation from coming darkness. Harvest season is a time of great and fruitful labor. Jesus asked,
Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.” John 4:35-38 NIV
He also said,
“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. “Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.” – MA 9:37,38
Now of course when He spoke those things Jesus was not talking about wheat or pumpkins. He was speaking of a harvest of souls. People are the harvest of the church. People are the harvest of Christ. He didn’t die for riches or for fame. He didn’t rise again to prove a philosophical point. He came to rescue people broken by the world. We are each a part of his harvest if we want to be!
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16
Are you a part of the harvest?
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Skywatch Friday 8-1-14
The GAR park at sunset
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Share Your World 2014 Week 30
Once again it is time to answer Cee’s questions and to share a little bit of my world. When you are done here take a jaunt over to Cee’s place and see what her other contributors have to say about this great wide world we all live in.
Share Your World – 2014 Week 30
Now on to…
THE QUESTIONS!
List 2 things you have to be happy about.
Oh, I have so many things to be happy about! I am blessed that God found me some thirty years ago when I was lost and on a very dark path, And I am blessed that He placed me in a wonderful church family with whom I get to share life! I could go on about the wonderful family he has put me in or the adventures he has sent me on but since that entails more than two happinesses and since I am trying to keep this post under 1,000 words I will stop there.
List at least 2 things in nature do you find most beautiful.
I will limit myself ,again, to two things for the sake of brevity…
I love the ever-changing sky
And the running of water
Show us a 2 of your favorites photographs. Explain why they are your favorite. If you are not a photographer (serious or otherwise), think of a two favorite scenes in your life and tell us about them.
This is a really hard one. I am tossed between choosing a photo for artistic value or for the memory it inspires. I guess I will choose one of each though I have lots of both.
I am still playing with the incense photos I took at my son’s home on my last trip to PA but I am pretty pleased with this one and might even hang it at our upcoming art show.
These are my three wonderful children. From left to right: Melanie (gets married this fall she and her future husband are children’s ministers soon to be credentialed), Joe (planning to teach English over seas when he is finished with his masters) and Amanda (just graduated from Bible College and plans to become a credentialed minister serving the disabled population of the U.S.)
List 2 of your best personality traits.
I think two of my best personality traits are patience and contentment. I consider neither of these to be personal attainments but gifts from God!
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am so thankful that my sister’s car is finally registered (in preparation for her return from Holland for her year of intineration) and I am looking forward to our mechanic being able to fix all the car’s little issues so that it will be ready for Brenda when she arrives.
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But I don’t feel like it…
Let the love of Christ fill you with His passion for living.
When you don’t feel like dieting, you probably should. When you don’t feel like balancing your checkbook, you probably should. When you don’t feel like working out, you probably should. When you don’t feel like reading the bible…you probably should. I’d even go as far as saying, when you don’t feel like talking about Jesus with someone, you probably should.
All too often we only attempt those things we feel like doing. Now, while that might be okay when you are considering what kind of hobby or activity you’d like to do on a Saturday afternoon, it rarely works in the real world. There were many days when I simply didn’t feel like facing those 35 sixth graders. And days when I didn’t feel like training with my cross-country runners. And when I got home from those activities, I didn’t feel like mowing the lawn. But, time after time, I did each of those…
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