BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Blue skies, white trees

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Blue skies, white trees

All the trees give glory to God. Whether people notice it or not. CLICK

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: The tree almost looks like a giant snowflake against a beautiful blue sky.

Merry Christmas, Paul, and to the rest of your family, too!; 12/23/2007 6:06 pm
Carol Douglas said...: Wow--it looks a lot like Rochester, except we have no sun.

My Christmas goal is to build a snow castle in the front yard with my son. But right now the snow is old and icky--we need a fresh batch. Just not on Christmas Eve, when we must drive to Buffalo.

Christmas blessings to you and your lovely family.; 12/23/2007 6:14 pm
Oculus said...: Hi Paul,

Indeed it was picture time last weekend, the cold, the fog, some light powder snow. Perfect to make some nice picture for coming christmas cards...
Very nice pictures, might be posting some of my pictures soon.

Have a good time, Michaël; 12/27/2007 11:51 am

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)