This post is in response to Nancy’s Challenge :TEASING. You can find more photos of teasing by clicking the underlined/capitalized link.
Here is mine:
It is not just people who know how to tease.
A Photo A Week: Teasing
An Encouragement To Do Your Work
This came from Ken one of our artist managers at C.cada
Hello everyone,
Check out the website to see when our future meetings will be and what special projects are planned. With the January meeting cancelled, a quarter of a year has already passed since our last art show. With the busyness of the holidays, many of us have spent little to no time on new art projects. Let me encourage each of you to plan to finish at least one project per quarter until the next art show. This would give each of us at least 3 pieces to display. That’s 90 days for each project, including 3 CCADA workshops for each month. God gave us abilities in various degrees. I’m thinking He wants each of us to utilize those talents to the best of our individual abilities. Ask Him to show you how to make time to discover, develop, and deploythose talents. When you bless Him with your best, He blesses your best and makes it better. To help keep us on track, we have scheduled a “show and tell” for our meetings in April and July—where we will share whatever work we have done up until that point with the other members of CCADA. Remember that this could include any artwork, photography, writing, or music. Let’s encourage each other by creating and sharing our ideas and efforts.
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Color Your World: Cornflower
Our color assignment today, from Jennifer, is: CORNFLOWER
Here is the shade and my attempt at matching it.
See other cornflower photos by clicking the underlined link.
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Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Lines & Angles
This week Cee has asked us for our BLACK &WHITE LINES AND ANGLES
Here are mine:
I know it’s not exactly what she meant but this is the line waiting to get in and see the Book of Kells at Trinity College in Dublin.
A bunch of lines and angles in the Guiness Factory Dublin
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The Road Through Romans: The Invisible Qualities Pt. 2
Today we are continuing our discussion through Romans 1:20 speaking about the Invisible Qualities of God. If you have missed any of our previous discussions they can be found on THE ROAD THROUGH ROMANS PAGE.
The verse in question is:
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
What this verse says is that God’s invisible qualities, the things which cannot be seen or touched, His essence, can be thoroughly perceived by what God has made. Those invisible things have to do with His everlasting never fading power and they prove His Godhood.
A.W. Tozer explains that their are 18 characteristics that are revealed about God. They Are:
1.Wisdom
2. Infinitude
3. Sovereignty
4. Holiness
5. Trinity
6. Omniscience
7. Faithfulness
8. Love
9. Omnipotence
10. Self- existence
11. Self sufficiency
12. Justice
13. Immutability
14. Mercy
15.Eternal in nature
16. Goodness
17. Graciousness
18. Omnipresence
As you look at this list think of the creation we live in. How are these qualities of God reflected even in our fallen creation?
Since we have all the time in the world let’s spend some time discussing these qualities.
See you tomorrow 🙂
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Friday Fictioneers: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
Here is another posting for Rochelle’s Challenge, FRIDAY FICTIONEERS. This challenge involves writing a 100 word story from a photo prompt provided by Rochelle. You can click the underlined link to read Rochelle’s story and those of her contributors.
The photo prompt and my story are below:
Photo by: ceayr
Behind the Bamboo Curtain
by JE Lillie
My memory is long. As far back as I can remember it has always been me vs. him. Nephew vs. uncle. Reynard vs. Isengrim.
We have amassed and lost fortunes to each other. Throughout history The fox has outwitted the wolf. The wolf has overpowered the fox. He is stronger. I am smarter.
I think though, I have finally lost. He has trapped me behind this bamboo curtain. The magic woven in keeps me in human form. To weak to transform I cannot heal from the knife he has thrust in my back. Reynard, the fox, at last is dying.
For more on Reynard the fox…
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Color Your World: Copper
Today the color we are being asked to share is COPPER
Here is the shade Jennifer’s contributors are trying to match:
Here are my attempts:
Coppery waters at Longwood Gardens
Click the underlined link above to observe how other photographers say the shade copper.
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Share Your World 2016 Week #4
It’s time once again to SHARE YOUR WORLD. Every week our hostess, Cee, poses five questions, which her contributors answer. In that way we all come to know a little bit more about each other’s worlds.
Here are the questions and my answers:
What one thing are you really glad you did yesterday?
I am really glad that I got a jump on Good Friday and Easter music. I know it isn’t until March but that time is really going to fly.
Are you generally focused on today or tomorrow?
I try to plan about six months ahead so I can actually focus on today. Some days it works better than others.
Would you want a guardian angel/mentor? What would they tell you right now?
I believe I have a guardian angel, but he is not my mentor. My mentor is the Holy Spirit and He has been speaking to me lately about walking in authority and not worrying so much about pleasing people.
Would you rather live in a cave house or a dome house made out of glass? (photos of the houses found on google search). I really really like the cave house. I am not much of a fan of houses you can see through. I like to hide in my home.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am grateful to have accomplished all my concerts for the month last week. I enjoy them but it is nice to have a few weeks off between events. I am also glad I found someone to take over one of the monthly worship concerts I do. This creates room for growth.
This next week I am looking forward to taking a much needed break. I will spend a few days in Maine!
Please click the underlined link at the top of the post to Cee what other folks have shared.
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pink Or Magenta Flowers
This week’s fun foto challenge is all about PINK OR MAGENTA FLOWERS
There is so much to choose from in this arena:
The bright pink of the sea rose
to the pale pinks of tulips
or the soft pink of the French Rose.
Or the dog wood
If you would like to see some other pinks or magentas you can take a peek at them by clicking on the underlined link above.
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The Road Through Romans: The Invisible Qualities Of God
Today we are continuing our study through Paul’s Letter To the Romans. We are still in chapter one and today we are looking at verse 20.
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
Romans is chock full of verses like this that on the surface are very straightforward but which spark a lot of questions that can take one off in a million directions. Here are a few questions that come to mind as I read this verse:
- What are the invisible qualities of God?
- What is eternal power?
- What makes God’s nature divine? And what does divine mean anyway?
- How does the creation make God’s invisible qualities visible?
- And if the creation reveals God’s invisible qualities how is it possible that almost 85% of the world is missing out on knowing God?
Well I might not be able to answer all of these questions to your satisfaction but over the next several days we will make a start of it.
Let’s begin with a review of what the verse is communicating up front.
God has built a message into the universe that points to Him. That message tells us what God is like and for that reason alone nobody will ever be able to say, “Nothing in my existence pointed me to God.” The very air we breathe and the very earth we tread speaks to us of God’s existence and His divine nature.
More on that tomorrow. If you have missed any of our discussions up until this point they can be found on THE ROAD THROUGH ROMANS PAGE.
