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Life Opens On the Dawn!

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“When I go down to the grave I can say, like many others, ‘I have finished my day’s work!’ But I cannot say, ‘I have finished my life.’ My day’s work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare! It closes on the twilight, it opens on the dawn! “
~Victor Hugo

I had another quote set for Ese’s  Shoot & Quote Challenge this week which is:

http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/ese-s-weekly-shootquote-challenge-alive/

but when I found this quote by Hugo over at

http://boyslumber.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/quote-victor-hugo-feb-26/

I knew I had to change it up!

We Were Made For Work

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The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. Ge. 2:15 NIV

Statue of Peter the Great in Zaandam, North Holland

Statue of Peter the Great in Zaandam, North Holland

 

From the greatest of us to the smallest we were made to work. It is not a curse it is our wiring.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
― Confucius

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Cheese vendors in Alkmaar

The goal is not to get away from work or to stop working but to find the work we were born to do!

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Pro. 22:6

The Proverb deals more with helping a child find their personal giftedness than it does with right moral living. Have you found the gift within yourself you were meant to share with the world?

A pastoral moment in Coeur D'Alene

A pastoral moment in Coeur D’Alene

It may not look like work to some people but to others it could be just the lifeline they need to keep going.

What work were you created for?

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, Col. 2:23

Wood Carver 3rd annual C.cada art show

Doug Stevens, Wood Carver 3rd annual C.cada art show

 

This post was created in response to Ails’a challenge at     http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/02/21/travel-theme-work/

Check out what others have said about work!

 

Skywatch Friday: A Storm Is Brewing!

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This post was created in response to Skywatch Friday at:

http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html

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“There’s always another storm. It’s the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.” 
― Maria V. Snyder, Fire Study

The Legacy Of Trees

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“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!” Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!” Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

 

May we so live that those behind us must strive hard to fill the void we leave!

This quote is part of Ese’s shoot & quote challenge http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/ese-s-weekly-shootquote-challenge-empty/

My Greatest Treasure

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This week’s photo challenge from DP is : Treasure.

Take a gander at the treasure trove they have amassed over at

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/photo-challenge-treasure/

 

As soon as I read the post I knew what picture I was digging for!

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It’s not the country. It’s not the building. It’s not even the memory that was built on this day. It’s the message that forever changed my life that is  plastered to the top of Amsterdam’s YWAM building. Jesus loves me. With that truth I have discovered you really can live on love!

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. MA 6:19-21 NIV

Family Circle

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“There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
―     C. JoyBell

Today’s theme from the Daily Post is: Karma or Circle  http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/daily-prompt-karma-chameleon/

I am not a big believer in karma but I do believe what the Bible says “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.” Prov. 18:20

I also think that the bold quote above by C.JoyBell is true. Families are simply complicated. At the end of the day when you sit down around the circle of the dinner table you may not see eye to eye but disagreement doesn’t trump love. Blood is thicker than water and love is thicker than both transcending all. It may not bring me good karma but I hope what I have spoken brings life to some heart out there.

Fifty And Thinking Of Dad

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Cee’s Black & White Photo challenge this week is :Over Fifty.

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/02/12/cees-black-white-challenge-50-years-or-older/

As I read her post I found myself walking down the road to memory. I am nearly fifty myself now. My Dad died just days before his fiftieth birthday.

I find myself  thinking of all the things he missed, all the memories he did not get to make. My youngest daughter, for instance,  will be married this November. Dad never knew her. Yet his life touches hers still because part of what he was is in me.

Jesus said “If you have seen me you have seen the Father.” While that’s true for Jesus and the Father God, I guess in some small way it’s also true for every father and son. As much as we may not like it there are some things in us that reflect where we came from, who we came from. Maybe we express it differently. Perhaps we are more healed than our predecessors so what’s in us of them comes out in healthy ways instead of broken ways, but it’s still part of our heritage…our DNA.

The writer of Ecclesiastes wrote “There is nothing new under the sun.”  Maybe, just maybe, that’s because each new generation is just a reflection of the last. Maybe we shine better. Maybe we shine worse. Maybe we shine further than our forbears.  However, we shine, and it is something that the world has seen before.

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The piano man.