Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
~Michel de Montaigne
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Posted by: jakinnan | June 18, 2012
Mind Our Own Business
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Posted by: jakinnan | June 18, 2012
06/18/2012 Scripture
You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is beneficial. Don’t be concerned for your own good but for the good of others.
-1 Corinthians 10:23-24 NLT
Picture Credit: Mark Wilson
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Posted by: jakinnan | June 17, 2012
Rejoice in Understanding
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~Eleonora Duse
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Posted by: jakinnan | June 17, 2012
06/17/2012 Scripture
So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children.Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.
-Romans 8:15-17 NLT
Picture Credit: Jeff Stephenson
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Posted by: jakinnan | June 16, 2012
Natural Masters
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
~St. Bernard
Picture Credit: Darwin Mulligan
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Posted by: jakinnan | June 16, 2012
06/16/2012 Scripture
And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believersin harmony with God’s own will. And we know that God causes everything to work togetherfor the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstbornamong many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory
Romans 8:27-30 NLT
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Posted by: jakinnan | June 15, 2012
The Spark of Life
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
~John Burroughs
Picture Credit: Hougaard Malan
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Posted by: jakinnan | June 15, 2012
06/15/2012 Scripture
Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.
Romans 8:18-219 NLT
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Posted by: jakinnan | June 14, 2012
Concrete’s Enemy
All I want is to stand in a field and to smell green, to taste air, to feel the earth want me, Without all this concrete hating me.
~Phillip Pulfrey, from Love, Abstraction and other Speculations
Picture Credit: Stephen Weaver
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Posted by: jakinnan | June 14, 2012
06/14/2012 Scripture
Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn’t understand what he meant, so he explained it to them: “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before mewere thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them. Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved.They will come and go freely and will find good pastures. The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
-John 10:6-10 NLT
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