Job 14:7-9 “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. 8 Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out
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A Time To
Welcome new day! This day I’ve been waiting for – for about five months. The high temp for today – predicted to be in the low 80’s! {insert every happy emoji known to man} Summer is our longest season here in south Louisiana. There have been seasons in my life when I have been this
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From Old Comes New
Lamentations 3:21-24 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” Nothing is
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New Things
Following on yesterday’s post, I’ve continued pondering the “newness” we hear about in the bible. It’s a different kind of new. The Message version of the Bible is not the version I use for my studies but I almost always read it along with my other favorite translations. I have read this chapter about twenty
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Something New
I took this picture standing on the top of Masada looking over the surrounding desert in Israel. Isaiah 43:18-19 “Forget the things that happened in the past. Do not keep on thinking about them. 19 I am about to do something new. It is beginning to happen even now. Don’t you see it coming? I
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Like a Dandelion
Proverbs 18:12-13 Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor. If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame. Words. Mercy. A power to be reckoned with. These verses remind me of the source of our words – again – our hearts. I get lazy so
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Behold
2 Corinthians 3:18 AMP But, we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. I captured this image one morning down at the boat launch near my home. The sun was
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The Alligator and The Dragonfly
Isaiah 11:6-9 Wolves will live with lambs. Leopards will lie down with goats. Calves and lions will eat together. And little children will lead them around. Cows will eat with bears. Their little ones will lie down together. And lions will eat straw like oxen. A baby will play near a hole where cobras live.
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Word by Word
Proverbs 3:3 NIrV Don’t let love and truth ever leave you. Tie them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. “Man, everything else comes with instructions, I sure wish there was an instruction manual on how to raise kids. I sure wish I had an instruction manual on how to survive