BUT A POOR REFLECTION: New Year's Day at the North Sea Beach

Monday, January 01, 2007

New Year's Day at the North Sea Beach

Everybody in our little family wanted to stay at home today. Not me! I went to the beach near Noordwijk on this windy New Year's Day. It is not difficult to see why... Nothing like the wind and the waves if you want to have a fresh start of the year!

I would also like to share the smells, the sounds and the whole atmosphere with you. But for the real experience you'll just have to visit this place yourself! (Click pics to enlarge)

4 comments:

Art said...: Happy new year!; 1/02/2007 4:47 am
Vicki said...: Your photos are incredibly beautiful! Thanks for posting them!; 1/07/2007 9:43 pm
Carolanne said...: I love your photos too and only came here after a visit to my beach today. I love the beach as it reminds me of how great and how powerful God is!
So you're dutch? A couple of my closest friends who I work with and go to church with are dutch. We go to a Reformed church at present, which used to be Dutch Reformed but they dropped the "dutch" I think to be more welcoming to people like me. (Aussies); 1/08/2007 5:25 am
Paul said...: Well, thanks guys. But remember: God made the scenes, I only made the pics; 1/08/2007 9:18 pm

God loves us

Have you ever wondered why God gives so much? We could exist on far less. He could have left the world flat and grey; we wouldn’t have known the difference. But he didn’t. He splashed orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue. And if you love to see geese as they gather, chances are you’ll see that too. Did he have to make the squirrel’s tail furry? Was he obliged to make the birds sing? And the funny way that chickens scurry or the majesty of thunder when it rings? Why give a flower fragrance? Why give food its taste? Could it be he loves to see that look upon your face?

Max Lucado - He Chose the Nails

Sadhu Sundar Singh

I do not condemn theologians wholesale, but it is unfortunately the fashion in Western thinking to doubt and deny everything. I protest this tendency. I never advise anyone to consult theologians, because all too often they have completely lost all sense of spiritual reality. They can explain Greek words and all that, but they spend too much time among their books and not enough time with the Master in prayer. It is not that I oppose all education, but education without life is certainly dangerous. You must stop examining spiritual truths like dry bones! You must break open the bones and take in the life-giving marrow.

Oswald Chambers

In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness. (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, July 29th)