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 Al's Page: May 2008
 
 

 

 

I Corinthians 13: 4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.


Sunset at Cedar Key, Florida

Psalm 90: 10a, 12
The span of our life is seventy years, perhaps in strength even eighty...
so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

Genesis 2:18, 23-24
The Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." And Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."



Ephesians 4:2
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

Matthew 7:14
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

A God Smile

Genesis 2:19
Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

Sunset at the North Pole

Deuteronomy 33:13-14
About Joseph he said: "May the LORD bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above
       and with the deep waters that lie below; with the best the sun brings forth
       and the finest the moon can yield...

Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes,
I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.



On a lonely stretch of highway just outside of Groom, Texas (near Pampa) stands a 19 story tall cross that can be seen for miles from any direction. The arm spans are 110 feet across. It is constructed of a welded steel framework covered with steel sheeting. This cross is the result of the efforts of Steve Thomas and family of Pampa, Texas. It took 250 welders eight months to complete, and weighs 1,250 tons. It stands alone, unsupported by guy wires, and can withstand winds of 140 miles per hour. Steve Thomas' son, Zack Thomas, is an All-Pro middle linebacker for the Miami Dolphins.

John 19:17-18a
So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull
(which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). Here they crucified him...



Psalm 1:1-3

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked...his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates... He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.


Looking at the Moon Through the Eye of Category 5 Hurricane Felix (9/07)

Psalm 148: 7-8
Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all ocean depths,
lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding...

Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.


Space Shuttle photo of the atmospheres of earth at dawn.

Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns blackness into dawn and darkens day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land
 — the Lord is his name."


Earthrise

Genesis 1:9-10
And God said, "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth;
and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good."

Ephesians 6:18
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.

I Corinthians 13:4ff
Love is patient, love is kind...it always protects...

Genesis 9:16
Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant
between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.

II Timothy 2:15
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth
not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Psalm 8:4-6
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Thou hast made him a little less than angels,
thou hast crowned him with glory and honor; and thou hast set him over
the works of thy hands:  thou hast put all things under his feet.

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth
and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air
and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

John 8:12
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Isaiah 32:16
The fruit of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness
will be quietness and confidence forever.



Psalm 33:13-15
From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind;
from His dwelling place he watches all who live on earth -
He who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do.

Song of Solomon 2:12
Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come...

Psalm 147:16
He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes.



Psalm 50:1
The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.



Psalm 16:11
You have made known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Ruth 1:16-19
 

But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?"

Ruth 4:13-17
 

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then he went to her, and the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. The women said to Naomi: "Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth. Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap and cared for him. The women living there said, "Naomi has a son." And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Job 37:10
The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.

Psalm 95:4
In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

Judges 16:4-6a
Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, "See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver." So Delilah said to Samson,
"Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."



Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower falls: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.



Proverbs 3:9-10
Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns
will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.



John 4:4-15
So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans). Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."



Exodus 29:2
And from fine wheat flour, without yeast, make bread, and cakes mixed with oil, and wafers spread with oil.

Luke 8:15
But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the Word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.

Luke 3:17
His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn,
but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

 

Mark 10:14
He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these."

Leviticus 23:22
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God.

 

Luke 1:57
When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son.



Psalm 104:19
The moon marks off the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down.

"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet
is fighting some kind of battle."

Click here or on the picture for a "moving" picture of Lake Mirror.

 

 

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