God, we thank You for this earth, our home; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank You for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds,…
Month: September 2024
“This is My Father’s World”
Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice!Tell all the nations, “The Lord reigns!”1 Chronicles 16:31 NLT *** *** God is serious business, take him seriously; he’s put the earth in place and it’s not moving.So let Heaven rejoice, let Earth be jubilant, and pass the word among the nations, “God reigns!”Let Ocean, all teeming with life, bellow, let Field…
Autumn Blessing
Autumn Glory
*** The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years,…
Autumn Time
“Springtime.” “Summertime.” “Wintertime.” They all trip lightly off the tongue. So why not “Autumn time?” *** For everything there is a season,a time for every activity under heaven.Ecclesiastes 3:1 NLT *** *** There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried…
Announcing …
Autumn! *** *** I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.Lee Maynard *** *** “It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” Winnie the Pooh, Pooh’s Grand…
Goodbye, Summer
Canada geese honk overhead. Blue Jays scream from the tops or trees. The leaves are beginning to turn, and I haven’t seen a robin for a while. This year the autumnal equinox, is Sunday, Sept. 22. Fall will arrive in the Northern Hemisphere at 7:44 a.m. CDT. This marks the first day of what is also known…
“The Majesty and Glory of Your Name”
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything…
Celestial Music
{God asks Job,]“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?Tell me, if you know so much.Who determined its dimensionsand stretched out the surveying line?What supports its foundations,and who laid its cornerstoneas the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?Job 38:4-7 NLT *** There is scientific evidence that the stars still…
Considering Miracles
Come, see the glorious things God has done. What marvelous miracles happen to his people!Psalm 66:5 Living Bible *** Miracles happen quietly every day – in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a roadside stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score. Mitch Albom *** O Lord my…