This post was made for the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: INSIDE
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/weekly-photo-challenge-inside-2/
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What Grows In Your Garden…
The seeds for this post came from Ailsa at Wheresmybackpack.com
Her travel theme this week is: Gardens; So let me begin by encouraging you to stop on over at her place when you are done here to see some absolutely gorgeous grow spaces.
http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/03/14/travel-theme-gardens-2/
Gardens are places where things grow intentionally, cultivated spaces. Unlike a happenstance forest a garden does not spring forth by accident. What grows there grows by choice of the gardener. My heart is a garden. Life does not accidentally happen to my heart. I choose what seed I let fall in that soil. I choose what weeds get pulled out. The condition of my heart like the condition of my garden is entirely up to me.
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don’t want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul.”
― Thomas More
“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Complete Verse
“God made a beauteous garden
With lovely flowers strown,
But one straight, narrow pathway
That was not overgrown.
And to this beauteous garden
He brought mankind to live,
And said “To you, my children,
These lovely flowers I give.
Prune ye my vines and fig trees,
With care my flowers tend,
But keep the pathway open
Your home is at the end.”
God’s Garden”
― Robert Frost
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The Rivers Run To Him
This post was created for
http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-run/
Stop by Sue’s blog to see what her other subscriber’s have said!
“As the rivers run to find the ocean blue my heart will always run to find You!” Michael Neale
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Wordless Wednesday: Patience
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A Jolly Book
It is time for SYW once again and this week Cee has come up with four humdinger- homerun-questions (is triple hyphenation linguistically correct?). I especially love the new question she is giving us!
Describe yourself in a word that starts with the first letter of your name.
Jolly.
If 100 people your age were chosen at random, how many do you think you’d find leading a more satisfying life than yours?
Not very many. I feel like I am living out my purpose and while I have not accomplished everything I set out to I am on my way. I have learned more than half the fun is in the journey anyway.
If you were a tree, would you become a book or furniture? Please describe.
Oh most definitely a book. It would be a big book for sure and for certain, no short stories or poetry compilations please! Just a flat-out adventure that goes on and on until it comes at last to a satisfying end leaving room for a sequel.
You are trapped in an elevator, who would you want to be trapped with?
I am assuming we can choose more than one person; So I would choose to be trapped with a really good storyteller to while away the time with, an optimist to keep our spirits up. A pizza delivery guy who just happened to be delivering Hawaiian pizza to the 15th floor and of course an elevator repair man/ acrobat who can climb through the ceiling tile like you see in the movies to fix what’s broken.
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 that God helped me to accomplish so much last week. Every week it just seems like the work expands along with the blessings. Here are some of the high lites from last week.
C.cada choir
Special Touch Bowl-A-Thon
I am loving this discipleship class
Hey go on over to Cee’s place and see what her other subscribers have said!
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/10/share-your-world-2014-week-10/
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Spring Ahead
We lost an hour this weekend. Did you notice? I did!
Me facing the effects of spring ahead.
I started the weekend by meeting with one of my graduated interns (I have taken on at least one intern a year for the last seven years). He visited on Friday after his girlfriend(my current intern) ratted me out by telling him I haven’t been taking my days off. Truth be told who has time to take a day off when daylight savings time is almost over.
Evidently his visit effected me more deeply than I realized because on Saturday morning I woke up at 4 A.M. It made me feel like this.
But I did have to finish my sermon before choir practice. So I walked the dogs and then chopped at the keyboard until the sermon was finished.
By 8 I was at the church warming up. I’ve noticed that warm up has become more and more important as I age.
After three hours of singing I was off to the Special Touch Bowl-A -Thon.
Bowlers at Special Touch
We raised $4400.00 for people with disabilities to go to summer camp. We have another Bowl-a-thon scheduled next week and our hope is to clear $10,000.00.
After that I visited some friends for a fellowship gathering. The sunset was lovely.
At this point I was pretty tired. I was just sure I would sleep well. Four A.M. came and I was up (which was really three because we sprung ahead remember) once again. Sunday was two services…excellent services I might add but springing ahead has left me a bit unhinged.
So today I am taking my intern’s advice. It is almost eleven and I am still in my pajamas. I think I will watch TV and eat cookies. After all spring is here!
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Perspectives Again
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
Church window?
Nope a wall in a coffee shop!
This post was created for Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective. It’s the second time this week I have been prompted to think about how different conclusions can be reached about the same subject simply by the position I find myself standing in.
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/photo-challenge-perspective/
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: My Sepia World
This post was created in response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. You can see other sepia works at
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/03/cees-fun-foto-challenge-sepia-tones/
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Skywatch Friday: Sea & Sky
This post was made for Skywatch Friday. Travel to other skies at
http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html
“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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Sunday Stills: Barns In Black & White
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