BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Welcome to my world!

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Welcome to my world!

This is posting # 100 on this blog. Hip hip hooray! And I do intend to go on with this time-consuming habit called blogging. Why? Because it sure beats watching tv; because I love writing and because I like to communicate with like-minded people from around the globe. And even if your mind is not like mine at all - you are still very welcome to leave a comment on one of my postings. If you have some time left, please also have a look at the Frappr map way down at the bottom of this page. Welcome to my world, friends - feel free to add yourself to my list and put your pin on my map!

7 comments:

Art said...: Congratulations on that milestone. And yes it definitely beats watching TV!; 3/21/2007 7:29 am
Vicki said...: Ditto what Art said! (Why do we pay for cable TV when it's never on, anyway?); 3/21/2007 1:24 pm
Carolanne said...: Ditto to what Art and Vicki said and I completely agree with you. I love blogging and I'm glad you intend to keep it up since I enjoy visiting you.; 3/24/2007 3:45 am
Carolanne said...: Hey Paul,
I went to send you an email but for some reason I didn't have your email address. Oops.
Anyway, just wanted to say hi.
Hope you have a good week.; 3/25/2007 3:06 pm
Paul said...: abspoel at gmail dot com; 3/27/2007 11:16 am
Cori said...: I've always enjoyed popping round and am often encouraged by the pics, poems and posts! Thanks for keeping up the blogging :-); 3/28/2007 2:45 pm
JC said...: Cool blog- happy 100th post!; 4/01/2007 3:27 am

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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)