Posted by: jakinnan | April 26, 2012

04/26/2012 Scripture

But thank God! He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ’s triumphal procession. Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume. Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume.  And who is adequate for such a task as this?

-2 Corinthians 2:14-16NLT

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Posted by: jakinnan | April 25, 2012

God’s Enthusiasm

God himself seems to be always doing his best here, working like a man in a glow of enthusiasm.

-John Muir (June 20, 1869; Atlantic Monthly)

Posted by: jakinnan | April 25, 2012

04/26/2012 Scripture

Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

-Romans 8:35-37 NLT

Posted by: jakinnan | April 24, 2012

Many Parts of Beauty

Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth… It is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed.

— Sigurd F. Olson (Naturalist author of The Singing Wilderness)
Posted by: jakinnan | April 24, 2012

04/24/2012 Scripture

 

So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.

-Ephesians 5:15-17 NLT

Posted by: jakinnan | April 23, 2012

The Need for Color

Flowers in a city are like lipstick on a woman — it just makes you look better to have a little color.
— Lady Bird Johnson (First Lady of the U.S. 1963-1969 and founder of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower center in Austin, Texas)
Posted by: jakinnan | April 23, 2012

04/23/2012 Scripture

For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile,slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

-Galatians 3:26-28 NLT

Posted by: jakinnan | April 22, 2012

Wonder While Life Lasts

The wonder of the world, the beauty and the power, the shapes of things, their colors, lights and shade. These I saw. Look ye also while life lasts.

— Francis Lee Jaques (American wildlife painter), from an old gravestone in Cumberland, England; favorite quote of F. Lee Jaques
Posted by: jakinnan | April 22, 2012

04/22/2012 Scripture

For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.

-Romans 1:2o NLT

Posted by: jakinnan | April 21, 2012

Embrace Nature’s Gift

Nothing is less known; nothing more neglected. The forest is a gift of nature which it is sufficient to except just as it calms from her hands.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc (French naturalist, biologist, mathemetician and author)

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