When I was a kid my dad would take the family to Logan airport. We’d park on the upper open-air parking area and just watch the jets fly in and fly out. He also took us to the railroads depots there, too, to watch the trains rumble in and out. As a nine or ten-year-old, those trips had the allure of excitement and adventure. Later on in life, I was impressed with the cultural experiences that were available in Boston. But I also became aware of the crime, the poverty, and the impersonality of city life.
In this life, there are so many things that make living here wonderful. But just like in the city (and towns for that matter), there is an opposite side of life that isn’t so pleasant. What God intended to bless man with, man has, in some way, perverted His work. Think of just…
I’m feeling all quotish today so I have decided to add quotations with my photos in Cee’s B& W Challenge this week which is all about the STATUES and sculptures and carvings.
Since I am focusing on the statues please click that word above to go and see how others focused their attentions on this very broad category. Especially take a peak at Cee’s bear as that is one of my favs so far in this challenge.
As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual housea to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6For in Scripture it says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame.” I Pet. 2:4-6
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
I hear the cry of the saints as they pray and in the background I hear the roar of those who do not believe. They scream in my face, “There is no God you fool!”
Sitting on my back deck this morning looking out over my one acre back yard I hear the whistle of a bird happily communicating with his friends. The soft tingle of wind chimes mingles with a variety of bird calls. The tree leaves rustle in a breeze that brushes my cheeks. The grass is wet with the morning dew. A tear-shaped drop of water hangs precariously off the pink pettle of a rose as the sky clears from an evening of rain. The serenity is calming, soothing, tranquil.
The whirl of tiny hummingbird wings catches my attention as it shoots past me heading for the hummingbird feeder hanging close by. It sits so delicately on the…
“The Share Your World Challenge” is an opportunity to share your experiences, likes and dislikes by answering five questions posed by the challenge’s host, Cee. You can read more on the challenge by clicking on the icon below and going to Cee’s Photo Blog and the current Share Your World Post.
Here are this week’s questions and my answers:
In a car would you rather drive or be a passenger?
I would rather be a passenger but since I am a one horse show riding in the passenger’s seat doesn’t get me very far. Next time you see me on the road I will most likely be driving.
If you were handed free opera tickets, would you go or sell them? Why?
I would totally go. I love the opera!
Describe your own outlook on life in seven words or less. (NOTE: does not necessarily have to be a sentence.)
Eternal life is God’s gift to mankind.
Which would you prefer: a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow, passion, and adventure–intoxicating successes and stunning setbacks; or a contented bordering on happy, secure, predictable life surrounded by friends and family without such wide swings of fortune and mood?
I feel like I have had the first type of life wild turbulent, full of great joy, incredible sorrow, passion and adventure. The trick has been to act like I am having the second lifestyle while walking through the first.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I feel like a broken record. I am glad our church was able to navigate through this week’s funerals and that God brought His great comfort in the midst of trial. I am looking forward to preaching two services on Sunday morning at Cornerstone Church. The title of my sermon is: “Little Heroes In a Big World.”
So while these new residents worshiped the Lord, they also worshiped their idols. And to this day their descendants do the same. (2 Kings 17:41)
As Paul spoke on and on, a young man named Eutychus, sitting on the windowsill, became very drowsy. Finally, he fell sound asleep and dropped three stories to his death below. (Acts 20:9)
Relate: The Kentucky Derby has been called by some the most exciting two minutes in sports. My guess is that this claim is usually made by gambling men and it isn’t the race itself that excites them so much as what has become of their money. The thing is, in most races if it wasn’t for the announcers giving the play by play, it would be difficult to know just exactly who won. Those horses are usually so close…
I recently came across a short essay by Paul Harvey, conservative American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous “The Rest of the Story” segments. From the 1950s through the 1990s, Harvey’s programs reached as many as 24 million people a week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, 400 Armed Forces Network stations and 300 newspapers. Written in 1996, this was an update of a broadcast he had done in 1965.
If I were the prince of darkness, I would want to engulf the whole world in darkness. I’d have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — thee. So, I would set about however necessary to take over the…
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Like much of the rest of our Constitution, the interpretation of that section of the Constitution has degenerated. Thus, the State of the Union has become…
To each of you who have loved or parented a child this poem is for you. For without these smiling children our world would have little hope for a warm future.
Well this week’s Sunday Stills Challenge, which by the by I have not participated in for a wiiiiicccckkkkeeeedd long time, is to portray buildings over four stories tall. Now maybe where you are from that is not a really big building. But where I live that is as we might say in the New England vernacular, “wicked big”.
Click the words “Sunday Stills Challenge” above and you can see how other people viewed “wicked big”. Here are mine:
Words are flying these days about proximity of the end. Talk of rapture and judgement has ramped up again.
When people ask me about the end times, I usually shrug my shoulders.
In His last days in flesh and bone the boys asked Jesus about the end.
So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” – Acts 1:6-8 NASB
During His ministry, Jesus made some statements about His second coming, but His discourse…
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