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Crayons and Crocodiles

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share-your-world2 My answers to Cee’s questions this week are brought to you by the color Green.

 

To read other colorful posts go to: http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/31/share-your-world-2014-week-13/

 

Here are the questions and my answers:

 

Do you believe in extraterrestrials or life on other planets?  

 

I’m with Larry Norman on this one.  “And if there’s life on other planets, then I’m sure that he must know. And he’s been there once already, and has died to save their souls.” Now if you asked “do you believe in little green men?” I would simply reply “But of course I am one.” 100_3052 What type of pet or pets do not want to have?

I think a crocodile or a green alligator would be not nice.

 

 

The song is a tribute to the new movie Noah (which is just fun if you accept that this newest Hollywood version is the total SCYFY version and undeniably non-biblical)

If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Green of course.

What type of transportation would you be? Why? I think I would really like a green (meaning eco-friendly) car.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? I am thankful for all the friends who showed up this weekend to help an elderly couple in our church move. I am looking forward to all those who will show up this week to help us move another elderly lady (how’s that for faith?).

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

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

What Grows In Your Garden…

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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

“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

“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

“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

Perspectives Again

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“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
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Church window?

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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/

Changing Perspective

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Sometimes it’s not our circumstances that make us helpless. Rather it is our perception of our circumstances that bind and paralyze us.

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“If a problem can’t be solved within the frame it was conceived, the solution lies in reframing the problem.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove

100_2715-001“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.”
― Unknown Author 724

This post was created for “A Word A Week Challenge: Frames”

to see other frame photos and blogs go to

http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-frame/

Skywatch Friday: A Light In the Eastern Sky!

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Light in the eastern sky, Jesus returning!
Light in the western sky, Jesus is near!
Soon shall the nations, His advent discerning,
Hail Him with gladness, or see Him with fear.

Refrain

Lord, by Thy hands that were nail pierced and torn:
Lord by the crown that they wove of the thorns:
Lord, by Thy passion in Gethsemane:
Christ of all tenderness, plead Thou for me!

Bright be our lamps as we watch for the dawning,
Girded our loins, that our strength may not fail;
So as He shines through the mists of the morning,
We may be ready to cry Him, “All hail!”

Refrain

Not as at Nazareth—lowly they found Him;
He as the Judge cometh back from the sky;
Borne on the whirlwind, with angels around Him,
Veiling their face from His glory so nigh.

Refrain

Judge of the earth, who in mercy unfailing
Offered Thyself as atonement for sin,
In that great day, by Thy love all prevailing,
Grant us the rest of Thy heaven to win!- Daniel B. Towner

This post was created for:   http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html

Life Opens On the Dawn!

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“When I go down to the grave I can say, like many others, ‘I have finished my day’s work!’ But I cannot say, ‘I have finished my life.’ My day’s work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare! It closes on the twilight, it opens on the dawn! “
~Victor Hugo

I had another quote set for Ese’s  Shoot & Quote Challenge this week which is:

http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/ese-s-weekly-shootquote-challenge-alive/

but when I found this quote by Hugo over at

http://boyslumber.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/quote-victor-hugo-feb-26/

I knew I had to change it up!