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Anger In Not Knowing: Ese’s Shoot & Quote Challenge- Mysterious

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This post was created for Ese’s Shoot & Quote Photo Challenge: MYSTERIOUS

You can find other mysterious things here:

http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/ese-s-weekly-shootquote-challenge-mysterious/

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen. Philip Yancey More Philip Yancey

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
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God is OK with our questions even the heated ones. We have to become OK with waiting for His answers.- JE

A Steaming Cup Of Bliss

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This posts is created for Across the Board’s Two Cents Tuesday Challenge:BLISS

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep. Fran Drescher

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.
Fran Drescher

The first thing I think about when I think about bliss is Jesus. I have found my peace, my rest and my joy in Him. I enjoy life because He has made it eternal for me; But now if you ask me aside from worshipping Christ what in life makes me feel blissful it is coffee. Everyone who knows Pastor Wrinkles knows he loves his coffee! When I visit with friends it always involves a cup o’Joe. In fact I have even told people that when we all get to Heaven they should look me up and we will share coffee together in my mansion.

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My sister Brenda and her friend Mona In Haarlem the Netherlands

When I travel I love to relax with a cup of coffee.

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Don’t I look rested here?

Oh, I like a hotel with a nice pool and a hot tub to unwind in.

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But if I can’t have that a steaming cup of bliss will relax me anyway.

“If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.” ― Anthony Liccione

“If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.”
― Anthony Liccione

Check out other people’s answers to the bliss question here

http://acrossthebored.com/2014/03/18/two-cents-tuesday-challenge-bliss/

What makes you feel blissful?

So What Qualifies As Pink?

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As I started to compile  photos for this week’s travel theme from Ailsa which is: Pink

I came a cross a bunch of photos which I labeled “pink” but as I looked at them I had to ask myself, “Are these pics really pink?”

Row house in Amsterdam

Row house in Amsterdam

Or are these shudders more of a magenta?

How about this portrait of Queen Beatrix by Andy Warhol which hangs in the Rijks Museum

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Brenda in St. Bavo's

Brenda in St. Bavo’s

I am praying that what my sister is wearing here is pink but y’know  it just might be salmon.

Cornerstone Church

Cornerstone Church

I used to be confident that the color of our sanctuary was dusty rose but after this morning’s search I am a little shaky. It just might be pink!

But of one thing I am pretty certain… when the sailors of old looked for a red sky at night I am pretty sure they meant pink.

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Mel11Find some real pink…I think at

http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/03/21/travel-theme-pink/

 

But I Really Need A Big Wood & Metal Bucket!

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This post was created for Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge

Take a gander at her other submissions here

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/20/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-week-4/

Y’know, I could very easily be a hoarder…I mean collector of odd items. 🙂

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So when I saw this big old square bucket at a market in Haarlem I thought “that would look really cool on our dining table.”

Never mind that our dining room is decorated in turn of the century  Victorian fashion…well except for all the other junk my mom and I have put in it….

Honestly the only thing that kept me from buying it was the knowledge that I would have to use it instead of my suitcase as my one carry on. It makes me think I should maybe never vacation in the States. Who knows what I would come back with?!?

Let the Change Inspire You!

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This post is written in response to Ese’s quote & Shoot Challenge from last week: INSPIRATION

Find other sources of inspiration at

http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/ese-s-weekly-shootquote-challenge-inspiration/

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ― Maya Angelou

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

 

Never let the changes in life get you down.As you walk them with faith, changes are just placed before you to light your path to the greener pastures.- JEL

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Found In Nature

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This post was created for Cee’s black and white Challenge. When you are finished here take a peek at Cee’s other subscribers over at

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/12/cees-black-white-challenge-made-made-objects-2/

Here are my picks of the week.

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“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” 
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” 
― William Blake

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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more” 
― George Gordon Byron