Me & the Cheese Cow
“To country people Cows are mild,
And flee from any stick they throw;
But I’m a timid town bred child,
And all the cattle seem to know.”
― T.S. Eliot
I am a country person but I’m with Elliot. Cows are scary things.
Check out more scary cows at:
http://sundaystills.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/sunday-stills-the-next-challenge-cows/
The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. Ge. 2:15 NIV
Statue of Peter the Great in Zaandam, North Holland
From the greatest of us to the smallest we were made to work. It is not a curse it is our wiring.
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
― Confucius
Cheese vendors in Alkmaar
The goal is not to get away from work or to stop working but to find the work we were born to do!
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Pro. 22:6
The Proverb deals more with helping a child find their personal giftedness than it does with right moral living. Have you found the gift within yourself you were meant to share with the world?
A pastoral moment in Coeur D’Alene
It may not look like work to some people but to others it could be just the lifeline they need to keep going.
What work were you created for?
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, Col. 2:23
Doug Stevens, Wood Carver 3rd annual C.cada art show
This post was created in response to Ails’a challenge at http://wheresmybackpack.com/2014/02/21/travel-theme-work/
Check out what others have said about work!
This post was created in response to Skywatch Friday at:
http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html
“There’s always another storm. It’s the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Fire Study
“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!” Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
May we so live that those behind us must strive hard to fill the void we leave!
This quote is part of Ese’s shoot & quote challenge http://esengasvoice.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/ese-s-weekly-shootquote-challenge-empty/
This week’s photo challenge from DP is : Treasure.
Take a gander at the treasure trove they have amassed over at
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/photo-challenge-treasure/
As soon as I read the post I knew what picture I was digging for!
It’s not the country. It’s not the building. It’s not even the memory that was built on this day. It’s the message that forever changed my life that is plastered to the top of Amsterdam’s YWAM building. Jesus loves me. With that truth I have discovered you really can live on love!
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. MA 6:19-21 NIV
“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
“You owe me.”
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
― حافظ
Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!
This post is written for Skywatch Fridays
http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html
“There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
― C. JoyBell
Today’s theme from the Daily Post is: Karma or Circle http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/daily-prompt-karma-chameleon/
I am not a big believer in karma but I do believe what the Bible says “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.” Prov. 18:20
I also think that the bold quote above by C.JoyBell is true. Families are simply complicated. At the end of the day when you sit down around the circle of the dinner table you may not see eye to eye but disagreement doesn’t trump love. Blood is thicker than water and love is thicker than both transcending all. It may not bring me good karma but I hope what I have spoken brings life to some heart out there.
This week’s photo challenge from the Daily Post is: SELFIE.
This shot was snapped in the lavatory of the YWAM building in Amsterdam! I know a little strange…right? But I think all pictures with me in it are a little strange any way you slice it. I think most of us feel that way when it gets right down to it. I find myself wondering if the reason it’s hard to look at ourselves is because it’s easy to deceive ourselves about who we are until we look into our own eyes. Soren Keikegard said,
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
I think I may start taking more selfies just to practice seeing the real me.
Check out more selfies at
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/weekly-photo-challenge-selfie/
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Skywatch is a weekly post you can find here http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
So I decided to try a new photo post called Skywatch. There’s just something about looking up that fills me with hope. How about you?
Check out other Skywatch posts at http://skyley.blogspot.com/2008/06/da-rulez.html
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