(Forests are) the “lungs” of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President)
Posted by: jakinnan | April 6, 2012
Breathe the Fresh Air
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Posted by: jakinnan | April 6, 2012
04/06/2012 Scripture
Trust in the Lord and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper. Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires.
-Psalms 37:3-4 NLT
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Posted by: jakinnan | April 5, 2012
Stop! Listen for the Goodness in Nature.
And this, our life exempt from public haunts, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— J.R.R. Tolkien (English writer)
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Posted by: jakinnan | April 5, 2012
04/05/2012 Scripture
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen. And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
-Hebrews 11:1,3, & 6
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Posted by: jakinnan | April 4, 2012
Guarding Our Hearts
The old Lakota was wise, He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
— Luther Standing Bear (Native American author)
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Posted by: jakinnan | April 4, 2012
04/04/2012 Scripture
But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)
-Ephesians 2:4-5 NLT
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Posted by: jakinnan | April 3, 2012
A Wilderness Visitor
A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
— Wilderness Act of 1964
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Posted by: jakinnan | April 3, 2012
04/03/2012 Scripture
Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.
Romans 8:5-7 NLT
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Posted by: jakinnan | April 2, 2012
Nature’s Embrace
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife’s body in faithful tenderness, so the bare ground and trees are embraced by this still, high, light of the morning. I feel an ache of longing to share in this embrace, to be united and absorbed. A longing like carnal desire, but directed towards earth, water, sky, and returned by the whispers of the trees, the fragrance of the soil, the caresses of the wind, the embrace of water and light. Content? No, no, no — but refreshed, rested — while waiting.
— Dag Hammarskjold (Swedish diplomat and second secretary-general of the United Nations, winner of the 1961 Nobel Peace Prize)
Picture Credit: Marc Adamus
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Posted by: jakinnan | April 2, 2012
04/02/2012 Scripture
Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ.
-Philippians 3:8-9 NLT
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