Good morning, Dear Friends and Prayer Partners! This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it! Looks like we had more rain last night, which I was unaware of until this morning when I saw the porch was wet and water is still dripping off the roof, God is certainly making up for the long drought we had in the winter and spring!
I had to do some errands yesterday and after I was finished it was almost noon, so I drove to the park and since hardly anyone was there in the heat index of 100, I walked out to the bridge and looked down at a toddler gator lying in the mud right at the shelter, He was not moving and was the same color as the mud, so not easy to spot. I looked to see if he was breathing, but not a movement did he make, so I walked on over the bridge and looked at the hydrilla and all the undergrowth by the bank, I could hear the machinery very clearly and thought there must be work going on at the shelter, but decided it must be the machines on the other side of the lake that has been going on for months. The sound was just carrying well.
I saw two immature ibis, black and white in color, and an anhinga with wings folded. Then a majestic, graceful egret was posing in a lovely stretched out position looking for lunch in the water. By that time, I had a little dew on my brow, so it was time to get in the car and cool off!
I must confess I had a false call on my medic alert bracelet and the paramedics came roaring up to the house about 7:30. I did not realize I had set it off inadvertently , and didn't answer the phone calls they made, because I have caller ID and don't usually answer calls I don't recognize. Well, they called my neighbor and then Brian. Brian didn't answer in time but Cheryl came rushing over from across the street just as I walked out to tell them there was no emergency. I was so sorry to have called them out for no reason, but they really were quick in responding! They said it was no problem, but it made paper work for them, filling out reports. The lesson I learned was to try to memorize the numbers they used, so if it ever happens again, I will know to answer! God is good!
From the devotional Quiet Moments with God:
I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep what I have committed to him until that day.
2 Timothy 1:12 NKJV
In the mid-nineteenth century, tightrope walker Blondin was going to perform his most daring feat yet. He stretched a two-inch steel cable across Niagara Falls. As he did, a large crowd gathered to watch. He asked the onlookeers, "How many of you believe that I can carry the weight of a heman on my shourlders across this gorge?"
The growing crowd shouted and cheered, believing that he could perform this difficult feat. Blondin picked up a sack of sand that weighed about 180 pounds and carried it across the Falls. They both arrived on the other side safely.
Then Blondin asked, "How many of you believe that I can actually carry a person across the gorge?" Again, the crowd cheered him on.
"Which one of you will climb on my shoulders and let me carry you across the Falls?" Silence fell across the crowd. Everyone wanted to see him carry a person across the gorge, but nobody wanted to put his or her life into Blondin's hands.
Finally a volunteer came forward willing to participate in this death-defying stunt. Who was this person? It was Blondin's manager, who had known the tightrope walker personally for many years.
As they prepared to cross the Falls, Blondin instructed his manager, "You must not trust your own feelings, but mine. You will feel like turning when we don't need to turn. And if you trust your feelings, we will both fall. You must become part of me." The two made it across to the other side safely.
Jesus gives us the same instruction when we are asked to trust Him in difficult circumstances: "Don't trust your own feelings; trust Me to carry you through."
Courage, brother! Do not stumble. Though thy path be dark as night; there's a star to guide the humble.
Trust in God and do the right.
Norman Macleod
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs,
Amaryllis
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Psoaring thru Psalm 119
Good morning, Dear friends and Prayer Partners! This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it! It's sort of a strange morning, weather wise. We have already had a gentle shower, but the sun is shining amidst all the puffy, white clouds scudding across the sky.
Nothing compares to Saturday and the torrential downpour that came down in this neighborhood. Never have I seen so much water fall in so short a time! Thunder, lightning, and rain. The street in front was almost totally covered in water! It drains off quickly, but that means it runs downhill, so the streets all around must have been flooded for a short time. Lots of washouts in the dirt at the construction site of Lynch school. I noticed the workers, even yesterday, were repairing the damage to the entrance roads. Very strange. It was just localized in this area.
Seems like this wet weather is bringing outside critters, inside. I took a shower yesterday morning with a baby lizard clinging to the shower door on the outside, not with me! I spoke to a baby frog when I took the dumpster down to the curb yesterday evening. And another baby bird was lying dead in front of the garage door. Maybe a hawk got it. So sad.
I stopped in at the park and it looked like no rain had fallen there, which is strange, since it is only a mile away. But I saw a pretty anhinga, and, of course, the ibis pecking around. God is good!
From the Promise Bible NLT:
Psalm 119
Happy are people of integrity,
who follow the law of the Lord.
Happy are those who obey his decrees
and search for him with all their hearts.
They do not compromise with evil
and they walk only in his paths.
You have charged us
to keep your commandments carefully.
Oh, that my actions would consistently
reflect your principles!
Then I will not be disgraced
when I compare my life with your commands.
When I learn your righteous laws,
I will thank you by living as I should!
I will obey your principles.
Please don't give up on me!
How can a young person stay pure?
By obeying your word and following its rules.
I have tried my best to find you--
don't let me wander from your commands.
I have hidden your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs,
Amaryllis
Nothing compares to Saturday and the torrential downpour that came down in this neighborhood. Never have I seen so much water fall in so short a time! Thunder, lightning, and rain. The street in front was almost totally covered in water! It drains off quickly, but that means it runs downhill, so the streets all around must have been flooded for a short time. Lots of washouts in the dirt at the construction site of Lynch school. I noticed the workers, even yesterday, were repairing the damage to the entrance roads. Very strange. It was just localized in this area.
Seems like this wet weather is bringing outside critters, inside. I took a shower yesterday morning with a baby lizard clinging to the shower door on the outside, not with me! I spoke to a baby frog when I took the dumpster down to the curb yesterday evening. And another baby bird was lying dead in front of the garage door. Maybe a hawk got it. So sad.
I stopped in at the park and it looked like no rain had fallen there, which is strange, since it is only a mile away. But I saw a pretty anhinga, and, of course, the ibis pecking around. God is good!
From the Promise Bible NLT:
Psalm 119
Happy are people of integrity,
who follow the law of the Lord.
Happy are those who obey his decrees
and search for him with all their hearts.
They do not compromise with evil
and they walk only in his paths.
You have charged us
to keep your commandments carefully.
Oh, that my actions would consistently
reflect your principles!
Then I will not be disgraced
when I compare my life with your commands.
When I learn your righteous laws,
I will thank you by living as I should!
I will obey your principles.
Please don't give up on me!
How can a young person stay pure?
By obeying your word and following its rules.
I have tried my best to find you--
don't let me wander from your commands.
I have hidden your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs,
Amaryllis
Friday, August 12, 2011
No Longer Enemies
Good morning, Dear Friends and Prayer Partners! This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it! Well, another day with no rain, but I couldn't believe how hot and sticky the day is already, when it isn't even 10 AM, yet! Makes me thankful for A/C. Speaking of that, we have a house across the street that has something going on, we, the neighbors can't figure out. It is supposed to be foreclosed on, but people keep moving in and out and the current occupant is living without electricity and maybe without water. One friend thinks drug dealers are living there, but no one is there in the daytime, just evening. Who do I call?
Anyway, while looking outside the window yesterday, I saw a beautiful swallowtail butterfly fluttering back and forth. I think that is the first time I have seen a swallowtail around here. Fascinating!
When I went to the park yesterday, I saw a volunteer cleaning out the canal by the weir. He had a long instrument and was pulling all the trash out, so it looks a lot better. Hooray for him! It was hot work. The canal was still full and the water was rushing out downstream and probably overflowing the banks by the water control as it went out and under the interstate to Turner's Creek. That was a lot of rain that came down! God is good!
From the devotional book Quiet Moments with God:
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6 KJV
The orange kitten was hungry. The grizzly bear was lonely. The man was apprehensive.
The cat weighed no more than 10 ounces when he first slid under the fence into the bear's pen. The man was almost in a panic, thinking the hungry grizzly would kill him with one swat and eat him for dinner.
The grizzly, whose name was Griz, had come to the Oregon wildlife center in 1990, when he was just a cub. Hit by a train while foraging on railroad tracks in Montana, he suffered severe head injuries and was deemed unfit to return to the wild.
The Kitten was one of four kittens abandoned at the center early in the summer. Volunteers were able to find homes for the rest of the litter, but Cat, as he was now called, somehow eluded them.
Then, one day in July, Cat turned up in Griz's pen. Afraid to do anything that might alarm Griz, the man just watched, expecting the worst. As the 650 pound grizzly was eating his midday meal, something extraordinary happened. The bear very gently picked out a chicken wing with his forepaw and dropped it near Cat.
From that moment on, Griz and Cat became something of a slapstick animal act. Cat would lay in ambush, then leap out and swat Griz on his nose. Griz would carry Cat in his mouth. Cat would ride on Griz's back, and sometimes Griz would lick Cat.
Their friendly relationship defies both the patterns of nature, as well as their own troubled life histories. Griz never took advantage of Cat's weaknesses, and each animal has accommodated the other's needs.
What a lesson Griz and Cat offer! We can help each other break free from the patterns of our pasts that keep us from loving each other. As we pray for and care for others with the love of Jesus Christ, we obtain healing by the grace of God, both for them and ourselves!
Love is the by-product of
our capacity to give what
is deepest within ourselves
and to receive what is deepest
within another person.
LLoyd J. Averill
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs,
Amaryllis
Anyway, while looking outside the window yesterday, I saw a beautiful swallowtail butterfly fluttering back and forth. I think that is the first time I have seen a swallowtail around here. Fascinating!
When I went to the park yesterday, I saw a volunteer cleaning out the canal by the weir. He had a long instrument and was pulling all the trash out, so it looks a lot better. Hooray for him! It was hot work. The canal was still full and the water was rushing out downstream and probably overflowing the banks by the water control as it went out and under the interstate to Turner's Creek. That was a lot of rain that came down! God is good!
From the devotional book Quiet Moments with God:
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6 KJV
The orange kitten was hungry. The grizzly bear was lonely. The man was apprehensive.
The cat weighed no more than 10 ounces when he first slid under the fence into the bear's pen. The man was almost in a panic, thinking the hungry grizzly would kill him with one swat and eat him for dinner.
The grizzly, whose name was Griz, had come to the Oregon wildlife center in 1990, when he was just a cub. Hit by a train while foraging on railroad tracks in Montana, he suffered severe head injuries and was deemed unfit to return to the wild.
The Kitten was one of four kittens abandoned at the center early in the summer. Volunteers were able to find homes for the rest of the litter, but Cat, as he was now called, somehow eluded them.
Then, one day in July, Cat turned up in Griz's pen. Afraid to do anything that might alarm Griz, the man just watched, expecting the worst. As the 650 pound grizzly was eating his midday meal, something extraordinary happened. The bear very gently picked out a chicken wing with his forepaw and dropped it near Cat.
From that moment on, Griz and Cat became something of a slapstick animal act. Cat would lay in ambush, then leap out and swat Griz on his nose. Griz would carry Cat in his mouth. Cat would ride on Griz's back, and sometimes Griz would lick Cat.
Their friendly relationship defies both the patterns of nature, as well as their own troubled life histories. Griz never took advantage of Cat's weaknesses, and each animal has accommodated the other's needs.
What a lesson Griz and Cat offer! We can help each other break free from the patterns of our pasts that keep us from loving each other. As we pray for and care for others with the love of Jesus Christ, we obtain healing by the grace of God, both for them and ourselves!
Love is the by-product of
our capacity to give what
is deepest within ourselves
and to receive what is deepest
within another person.
LLoyd J. Averill
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs,
Amaryllis
Thursday, August 11, 2011
What's the Problem?
Good Morning, Dear friends and Prayer Partners! This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it! Bright sunshine and few clouds puffy and very white and no rain so far...a beautiful day! After the rain, yesterday, I got out to shop a bit and drove to the park to see how high the water was in the canal. It was the highest I have ever seen it and all the hydrilla was washing on down the canal. Parts of it had been sprayed, but not what was in the canal. It must have floated down from the lake.
Water was up to the concrete drive on the weir and had been way over it, because trash was wrapped around the posts. I saw one unconcerned squirrel very intently munching on a pine cone, holding it down with one dainty paw. Very cute.
Wow! What an ending to the Rays game last night. Sam Fuld's triple which drove in the tying run and then his race home on a throwing error, which won the game, was amazing. Sam is diabetic, and was totally exhausted after his head first slide into home plate, so he just laid there and waited for all the teammates to come pile on him. He was really panting for breath when interviewed after the game. He does not let his condition hold him back, which is a real life role model for others similarly afflicted. God is good!
From the devotional book Quiet Moments with God:
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 NKJV
Ever had a difficulty that gives you "2:00 A.M. wake-up calls"? It could be a project at work, a committee you've suddenly ended up chairing, or simply the challenge of trying to figure out how to get everything done with only two hands. Whatever the issue, it ruins your sleep and saps your energy for the upcoming day.
The developer of a popular series of business training films describes the phenomenon of discovering your problem-solving skills are going nowhere;
You start thinking, I'm uncomfortable. I'm anxious. I can't do this. I should never have started to try. I'm not creative. I was never creative in school. I'm a complete failure. I'm going to be fired, and that means my spouse will leave me and--in other words, you start enjoying a real, good, old-fashioned panic attack.
Problems can feel ten times as large in the middle of the night. But in reality--and by daylight--solutions might not be as distant as they seem.
Inventor Charles Kettering had a unique problem-solving method. He would divide each problem into the smallest possible pieces, then research the pieces to determine which ones had already been solved. He often found that what looked like a huge problem was already 98 percent solved by others. Then he tackled what was left.
In bite-sized pieces, problems become more manageable.Remember that, with God, all things are possible. He can give us peace in our darkest nights and bring wisdom with the morning.
Obstacles in the pathway of the weak become stepping-stones in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs,
Amaryllis
Water was up to the concrete drive on the weir and had been way over it, because trash was wrapped around the posts. I saw one unconcerned squirrel very intently munching on a pine cone, holding it down with one dainty paw. Very cute.
Wow! What an ending to the Rays game last night. Sam Fuld's triple which drove in the tying run and then his race home on a throwing error, which won the game, was amazing. Sam is diabetic, and was totally exhausted after his head first slide into home plate, so he just laid there and waited for all the teammates to come pile on him. He was really panting for breath when interviewed after the game. He does not let his condition hold him back, which is a real life role model for others similarly afflicted. God is good!
From the devotional book Quiet Moments with God:
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 NKJV
Ever had a difficulty that gives you "2:00 A.M. wake-up calls"? It could be a project at work, a committee you've suddenly ended up chairing, or simply the challenge of trying to figure out how to get everything done with only two hands. Whatever the issue, it ruins your sleep and saps your energy for the upcoming day.
The developer of a popular series of business training films describes the phenomenon of discovering your problem-solving skills are going nowhere;
You start thinking, I'm uncomfortable. I'm anxious. I can't do this. I should never have started to try. I'm not creative. I was never creative in school. I'm a complete failure. I'm going to be fired, and that means my spouse will leave me and--in other words, you start enjoying a real, good, old-fashioned panic attack.
Problems can feel ten times as large in the middle of the night. But in reality--and by daylight--solutions might not be as distant as they seem.
Inventor Charles Kettering had a unique problem-solving method. He would divide each problem into the smallest possible pieces, then research the pieces to determine which ones had already been solved. He often found that what looked like a huge problem was already 98 percent solved by others. Then he tackled what was left.
In bite-sized pieces, problems become more manageable.Remember that, with God, all things are possible. He can give us peace in our darkest nights and bring wisdom with the morning.
Obstacles in the pathway of the weak become stepping-stones in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs,
Amaryllis
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Uniquely Positioned
Good Morning, Dear Friends and Prayer Partners! This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it! Well, I know that is what we are to do, but it is dark, noisy with thunder booming, lightning flashing, and rain pouring down, so I rejoice that I have shelter from the storm and am cosy in my house. I think it's time God sent some of this rain over to Texas!
Yesterday was the same, so I never left the house. I am really conserving my gas. If I don't drive, I don't use it. I was really hoping to get out today and get some milk and bread and do some shopping, but later will do fine.
I don't know what happens to the birds and squirrels when it rains like this...I never see them around. Perhaps they take cover in the trees. I know after doing a little housekeeping yesterday, I finished a book I was reading and did a few exercises. God is good!
From the devotional book Quiet Moments with God:
When I consider your heavens , the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of Him? Psalms 8:3,4
A number of years ago IMAX filmmakers produced a movie titled Cosmos. In it, they explored the "edges" of creation..both outer space as viewed through the most powerful telescope, and inner space as viewed through the most powerful microscope. Viewers saw for themselves that at the far reaches of space, clumps of matter (huge stars) seem to be suspended in fixed motion and separated by vast areas of seemingly empty blackness.
They also saw that the same can be said for the depths of inner space-clumps of matter are suspended in fixed orbits, separated by vast areas of seemingly empty blackness. In fact, the world of the distant stars is almost identical in appearance and form to the world of the tiniest newtrinos. Furthermore, neither of these "edges" of creation has been explored fully. Both inner and outer space appear as if they may very well extend into infinity.
In sharp contrast, the created earth as we experience it daily is uniquely suspended between these two opposite poles. Our world is filled with varied colors, dynamic forms, differing patterns, changing seasons, and adaptable functions.
It is as if God has placed human beings at the very center of His vast creation, with the maximum amount of complexity, meaning, and choice. We are "hung in the balances" literally, as well and figuratively--the pivot point between the great and the small, the vastness of outer space and the vastness of inner space.
We are not only fearfully and wonderfully made, but we are fearfully and wonderfully positioned in God's creation. The Lord has a place for everyone, and specifically, He has a place for you. Thank God for your uniqueness today. Delight in all that makes you special in His eyes. Praise Him for all that He has designed you to be, to become, and to give.
When God conceived the world, that was poetry.
He formed it and that was sculpture.
He colored it and that was painting.
He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand,
divine eternal drama.
David Belasco
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs.
Amaryllis
Yesterday was the same, so I never left the house. I am really conserving my gas. If I don't drive, I don't use it. I was really hoping to get out today and get some milk and bread and do some shopping, but later will do fine.
I don't know what happens to the birds and squirrels when it rains like this...I never see them around. Perhaps they take cover in the trees. I know after doing a little housekeeping yesterday, I finished a book I was reading and did a few exercises. God is good!
From the devotional book Quiet Moments with God:
When I consider your heavens , the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of Him? Psalms 8:3,4
A number of years ago IMAX filmmakers produced a movie titled Cosmos. In it, they explored the "edges" of creation..both outer space as viewed through the most powerful telescope, and inner space as viewed through the most powerful microscope. Viewers saw for themselves that at the far reaches of space, clumps of matter (huge stars) seem to be suspended in fixed motion and separated by vast areas of seemingly empty blackness.
They also saw that the same can be said for the depths of inner space-clumps of matter are suspended in fixed orbits, separated by vast areas of seemingly empty blackness. In fact, the world of the distant stars is almost identical in appearance and form to the world of the tiniest newtrinos. Furthermore, neither of these "edges" of creation has been explored fully. Both inner and outer space appear as if they may very well extend into infinity.
In sharp contrast, the created earth as we experience it daily is uniquely suspended between these two opposite poles. Our world is filled with varied colors, dynamic forms, differing patterns, changing seasons, and adaptable functions.
It is as if God has placed human beings at the very center of His vast creation, with the maximum amount of complexity, meaning, and choice. We are "hung in the balances" literally, as well and figuratively--the pivot point between the great and the small, the vastness of outer space and the vastness of inner space.
We are not only fearfully and wonderfully made, but we are fearfully and wonderfully positioned in God's creation. The Lord has a place for everyone, and specifically, He has a place for you. Thank God for your uniqueness today. Delight in all that makes you special in His eyes. Praise Him for all that He has designed you to be, to become, and to give.
When God conceived the world, that was poetry.
He formed it and that was sculpture.
He colored it and that was painting.
He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand,
divine eternal drama.
David Belasco
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs.
Amaryllis
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Galatians quotes
Good morning, Dear Friends and Prayer Partners! This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it! This morning I awoke to rain and now the sun is shining, but according to the weatherman, this is the way it will be all day...sunshine and rain. Looks like drips off the rood will be a common thing, now.
I did some household work yesterday, vacuuming, etc. and got out for a little bit in the afternoon. I went to the park and saw how high the undergrowth is now, but the maple tree that was down in the canal is gone, so maybe the oak that has fallen will be next. Very slowly, the work is getting done, as the work crews go to each park. We have more moorhens around Lynch Lake than are at the park any more. But I saw a tri-colored heron and the usual squirrels. Speaking of animals, I wrote about the bunnies in the yard a week or so ago. I haven't seen them any more, but had a duck in the tree. Yes, those pesky Muscovys are in the neighborhood, again. One of them flew up in the oak tree and acted like she owned it, after hanging around the neighbor's yard right next to mine. I don't like the way they look at me. Anyway, God loves all creatures, great and small, so God is good!
From the Promise Bible NLT:
Galatians 5:22
But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us;
love, joy peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Here there is no conflict with the law.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. If we are living now by the Holy Spirit, let us follow the Holy Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. Let us not become conceited or irritate one another, or be jealous of one another.
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs, Amaryllis
I did some household work yesterday, vacuuming, etc. and got out for a little bit in the afternoon. I went to the park and saw how high the undergrowth is now, but the maple tree that was down in the canal is gone, so maybe the oak that has fallen will be next. Very slowly, the work is getting done, as the work crews go to each park. We have more moorhens around Lynch Lake than are at the park any more. But I saw a tri-colored heron and the usual squirrels. Speaking of animals, I wrote about the bunnies in the yard a week or so ago. I haven't seen them any more, but had a duck in the tree. Yes, those pesky Muscovys are in the neighborhood, again. One of them flew up in the oak tree and acted like she owned it, after hanging around the neighbor's yard right next to mine. I don't like the way they look at me. Anyway, God loves all creatures, great and small, so God is good!
From the Promise Bible NLT:
Galatians 5:22
But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us;
love, joy peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Here there is no conflict with the law.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. If we are living now by the Holy Spirit, let us follow the Holy Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. Let us not become conceited or irritate one another, or be jealous of one another.
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs, Amaryllis
Monday, August 8, 2011
Nothing is impossible with God
Good Morning, Dear friends and Prayer Partners! This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it! It must have rained a little last night, because today the drips are coming off the roof and the porch floor is damp. It really rained Saturday, though!
I stopped at the Publix on 49th St. on my way home from Mari's salon, even though I had second thoughts, because a big black cloud was hanging almost overhead. I thought I should have gone on home and shopped at the Gateway Publix. Well, sure enough, it started pouring while I was in the store, so after I finished shopping, I just stood along with the other customers and waited for it to slack off. When I moved outside the door, someone was smoking, and the smell was really bothering me, so when I thought I could get everything in the van, and I had taken my umbrella with me, I started on, sloshing through the water to the van, loaded everything, which was wet, and managed to get in the car, with only a little soaking on the parts the umbrella didn't protect. But the hair was protected! Yay! :o) When I got close to home, I could see that it had already rained around here, so I would have been trapped at the neighborhood store, anyway.
I went to the park later in the afternoon and not many people were there, but on the way out, I saw a hawk perched on top of a bat house, so I stopped and took his photo. He was just looking around, with his fierce eyes and gave a profile pose which looked like an eagle. God is good!
From Quiet Moments with God devotional:
I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 NASB
Scientists say it can't be done! It's impossible, Aerodynamic theory is crystal clear. Bumblebees cannot fly. The reason is because the size, weight, and shape of the bumblebee's body in relation to the total wing spread make it impossible to fly. The bumblebee is simply too heavy, too wide, and too large to fly with wings that small.
However, the bumblebee is ignorant of these scientific facts and goes ahead and flies anyway.
It was God who created the bumblebee and God who taught it how to fly. The bumblebee obviously didn't question God about the problem with aerodynamics. It simply flew. It didn't question whether God really knew what He was talking about. It simply flew. It didn't wonder if God really loved it when He gave it such small wings. It simply flew.
When God created us, He also equipped us for the life ahead. He says He knows the plans He has for our lives. Because He loves us, He has promised to be with us, to teach us, to carry us, and to be our Rock. All we have to do is trust and obey.
God is not limited by our understanding of how things happen. Just because we can't see something, doesn't mean it's not real. Faith is, indeed, the substance of things not seen. Sometimes life is inexplicable, and the impossible happens. We can't always explain everything.
And just because we don't understand how something can be done, doesn't mean our Almighty God can't do it.
God is within all things, but not included;
outside all things, but not
excluded; Above all things,
but not beyond their reach.
Pope Gregory the Great
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs, Amaryllis
I stopped at the Publix on 49th St. on my way home from Mari's salon, even though I had second thoughts, because a big black cloud was hanging almost overhead. I thought I should have gone on home and shopped at the Gateway Publix. Well, sure enough, it started pouring while I was in the store, so after I finished shopping, I just stood along with the other customers and waited for it to slack off. When I moved outside the door, someone was smoking, and the smell was really bothering me, so when I thought I could get everything in the van, and I had taken my umbrella with me, I started on, sloshing through the water to the van, loaded everything, which was wet, and managed to get in the car, with only a little soaking on the parts the umbrella didn't protect. But the hair was protected! Yay! :o) When I got close to home, I could see that it had already rained around here, so I would have been trapped at the neighborhood store, anyway.
I went to the park later in the afternoon and not many people were there, but on the way out, I saw a hawk perched on top of a bat house, so I stopped and took his photo. He was just looking around, with his fierce eyes and gave a profile pose which looked like an eagle. God is good!
From Quiet Moments with God devotional:
I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 NASB
Scientists say it can't be done! It's impossible, Aerodynamic theory is crystal clear. Bumblebees cannot fly. The reason is because the size, weight, and shape of the bumblebee's body in relation to the total wing spread make it impossible to fly. The bumblebee is simply too heavy, too wide, and too large to fly with wings that small.
However, the bumblebee is ignorant of these scientific facts and goes ahead and flies anyway.
It was God who created the bumblebee and God who taught it how to fly. The bumblebee obviously didn't question God about the problem with aerodynamics. It simply flew. It didn't question whether God really knew what He was talking about. It simply flew. It didn't wonder if God really loved it when He gave it such small wings. It simply flew.
When God created us, He also equipped us for the life ahead. He says He knows the plans He has for our lives. Because He loves us, He has promised to be with us, to teach us, to carry us, and to be our Rock. All we have to do is trust and obey.
God is not limited by our understanding of how things happen. Just because we can't see something, doesn't mean it's not real. Faith is, indeed, the substance of things not seen. Sometimes life is inexplicable, and the impossible happens. We can't always explain everything.
And just because we don't understand how something can be done, doesn't mean our Almighty God can't do it.
God is within all things, but not included;
outside all things, but not
excluded; Above all things,
but not beyond their reach.
Pope Gregory the Great
I always give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers with thanksgiving, joy and love!
Love and hugs, Amaryllis
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