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Making Sense of Christmas
(This post is part of the ChristianWriters.com blog chain for December – The theme is Christmas sense(s)) I struggle at times making sense of Christmas. Why did the God of Creation leave Heaven and...
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Blessings From God – Unusual and Beautiful Flowers
Enjoy the Clerodendrum from last Spring. The butterfly is folded up and hard to see, but enjoy that too. As I understand it, the bush is native to China and India. It does well under the shade of the...
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Merry Christmas – God Bless You and Yours
Merry Christmas to all – God Bless you and yours. “For He said, “Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely.” And He became their Savior.” Isaiah 63:8 ESV
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December Sunset – 2013 Rises
Here’s a beautiful south Georgia sunset in late December. Now 2013 has come in and we begin another year thanking God for the blessings He gives us and asking Him to guide us in what we do – all to His...
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Spread the Gospel – Like Beggar’s Lice
Here in south Georgia we call them beggar’s ticks and beggar’s lice (among other names). They’re seeds from a part of a large “genus” of plants called “stickers”. Some stickers, like blackberry vines,...
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Learning in Life – Watch Where Your Shadow Falls
It would have been a lovely photo of Black-eyed Susans in our backyard. But, I wasn’t thinking or noticing where my shadow fell. One point in my personal mission statement is “Pay Attention”. Obviously...
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Blessings from God – 100 Followers (Plus 3?)
I thank the Lord and all of you out there who follow this blog. We reached a milestone of 100 followers last week. It is humbling to think there are that many people who went through the time and...
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Bible Study – Cherish the Knowns, Work on the Unknowns
Since I’ve started a bit of “birding” in the backyard, I’m discovering just how many unknowns I have. Here are three unknowns that decided to get a bite to eat at the same time. I thought I was fairly...
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Confused Peach Tree? – Praise the Lord!
I’ve seen quite a few blog posts about this winter’s weird weather – I agree it’s been weird around here. The picture was our peach tree back in January. The weather was warm enough, long enough, to...
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Do You Look Like Just Another Board in the Fence?
Do you stand out like a new creation? A few weeks ago I headed out to a jobsite and went by the Meldrim Sisters’ Farm. The sisters are no longer living but their legacy lives on because the house and...
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God’s Love Becomes a Forest of Beauty
Here’s a shot just down the road where the wisteria vines have spread through the pine trees. Sharon and I have watched as it expanded over many years. You can see why the vine is considered invasive –...
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What Ingredients Create Our Spiritual Mulch?
The flower beds were a mess. Some still are since it’s a work in progress. I didn’t add any mulch in the fall, so the weeds were free to multiply and the warm winter helped them along. But, thankfully,...
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Sure Signs of Faith
Want a sure sign that Spring is here? Then, look for the budding pecan trees. They seem to be the last large trees around here (south Georgia) that bud out. Want a sure sign of faith? Then look for...
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The Parable of the Hidden Light
Now, it’s an inviting 2 rut road through the woods but a month or so ago it was more inviting. That’s when I started looking at it as I drove past on the highway. I kept thinking I needed to stop and...
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The Bird Was Watching Me
“For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird,” Proverbs 1:17 ESV Not sure if the bird is watching me (I wasn’t spreading a net, just taking a picture) or happened to look my way. But, it does...
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I Wish You Could Smell This – Sweet Savor!
A “sweet savor” isn’t a common twenty-first century phrase used to describe good smells – but it would appropriately describe the wonderful treat that greets Sharon and me when we go outside these...
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Blooms and Scripture 1
Going a couple weeks with no post deserves a few to get going again. Things have been blooming wonderfully, so I’ll post a few “blooms and Scripture”. A few days of Psalms 25 – one of my favorites!...
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Blooms and Scripture 2
Psalms 25 – Continued – my favorite section (and a prayer for every day). “Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on...
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Blooms and Scripture 3
Psalms 25 (continued) “Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the LORD are...
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Blooms and Scripture 4
Oak Leaf offspring from a small seedling we bought probably 20 years ago. And, the Bald Cypress in the Tree Garden (a long way from 90′ tall, but getting started) Psalms 25 continued “For thy name’s...
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