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Travel Theme: Horizons

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This week’s travel theme from Ailsa is: HORIZONS

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Boston Museum Of Art

Boston Museum Of Art

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

William Lyon Phelps

A view Of Den Hague From the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft

A view Of Den Hague From the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

York ME, The Salt Marshes

York ME, The Salt Marshes

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

Ella Maillart

The Murdock Block, Winchendon MA

The Murdock Block, Winchendon MA

 


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Travel theme – Horizons

A Photo A Week Challenge: Unusual Portrait Faces

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I love this challenge! Unusual Portrait faces is this week’s topic from Nancy Merril.

Take a gander at some of her other contributors faces at

 

http://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/a-photo-a-week-challenge-unusual-portrait-faces/

Here are my additions to the collection:

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn

 

 

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Wintry Waters

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This post is written in response to Cee’s challenge : Winter/ Water

My offerings are below, but when you have finished here take a trip over to Cee’s photo shop to see what her other contributors have put up.

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/08/12/cees-fun-foto-challenge-water-or-the-season-of-winter/

 

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#100happydays Days 62-65

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I am not sure how I got ahead of my friend Nicole at Just Live It, but somehow I am about 20 days up on her!

Maybe I just got going so fast in life I managed to cram a couple of days at a time into 24 hour periods. 

Anyway today I am making up for lost time and am showing all my happiness for the last four days.

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I am happy for the relaxed contented attitude the Lord has been helping me to maintain this summer.

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I am happy for all the good work The Winchendon Enhancement Committee has been able to accomplish this summer from this building.

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I am happy to live in a picturesque community.

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Praise HandsRemember happiness and contentment are found on the inside not the outside.  All clouds have silver-linings and gold stands out best on a black background

 

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth/ Harvest

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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

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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

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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!

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“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?

 

Share Your World 2014 Week 30

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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…

 

 

The everchanging sky

I love the ever-changing sky

And the running of water

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.

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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.

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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.