Posted by: jakinnan | April 1, 2012

The Great Spiritual Experience

The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it… It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.

— Frank Church (Democratic Idaho Senator (1957-1981))

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Posted by: jakinnan | April 1, 2012

04/01/2012 Scripture

Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault.  All glory to him who alone is God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are his before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time! Amen

-Jude 1:23-25 NLT

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Posted by: jakinnan | March 31, 2012

Let the Earth Play

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

— Kahlil Gibran

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Posted by: jakinnan | March 31, 2012

03/31/2012 Scripture

Dear brothers and sisters,be patient as you wait for the Lord’s return. Consider the farmers who patiently wait for the rains in the fall and in the spring. They eagerly look for the valuable harvest to ripen. You, too, must be patient. Take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near.

-James 5:7-8 NLT

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Posted by: jakinnan | March 30, 2012

God Given Scenic Beauty

There is a limit to the number of lands of shoreline on the lakes; there is a limit to the number of lakes in existence; there is a limit to the mountainous area of the world, and… there are portions of natural scenic beauty which are God-made and… which of a right should be the property of all people.

— Arthur Carhart (U.S. Forest Service official and pioneer in wilderness preservation movement)

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Posted by: jakinnan | March 30, 2012

03/30/2012 Scripture

We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.

-1 John 3:16 NLT

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Posted by: jakinnan | March 29, 2012

Challenged by Wilderness

Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back to the challenges of the untrammeled wilderness. Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.

— Harvey Broome (Co-founder of The Wilderness Society)

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Posted by: jakinnan | March 29, 2012

03/29/2012 Scripture

This is the message we heard from Jesusand now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

-1 John 1:5-7 NLT

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Posted by: jakinnan | March 28, 2012

Natural Beauty

Beauty created by Nature is equal in value to, and to be accorded reverence equal to that of the beauty of music, art or poetry of man, and experts are available to testify as to degrees of natural beauty just as they are able to testify to the quality of mortals’ art.

— David Sive

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Posted by: jakinnan | March 28, 2012

03/28/2012 Scripture

This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

-2 Timothy 1:6-7 NLT

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