Continental Divide in Colorado from a few years ago |
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
America the Definitely Beautiful
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Biblical Winters
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Fum Fum Fum
Friday, November 1, 2024
All Things Bright & Beautiful
Monday, July 1, 2024
Trees
Monday, January 1, 2024
The Months
January brings the snow,
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Winter in All Our Lives
a chill and darkness that makes us yearn
for days that have gone
or put our hope in days yet to be.
Father God, you created seasons for a purpose.
Spring is full of expectation
buds breaking
frosts abating and an awakening
of creation before the first days of summer.
Now the sun gives warmth
and comfort to our lives
reviving aching joints
bringing colour, new life
and crops to fruiting.
Autumn gives nature space
to lean back, relax and enjoy the fruits of its labour
mellow colours in sky and landscape
as the earth prepares to rest.
Then winter, cold and bare as nature takes stock
rests, unwinds, sleeps until the time is right.
An endless cycle
and yet a perfect model.
We need a winter in our lives
a time of rest, a time to stand still
a time to reacquaint ourselves
with the faith in which we live.
It is only then that we can draw strength
from the one in whom we are rooted
take time to grow and rise through the darkness
into the warm glow of your springtime
to blossom and flourish
bring colour and vitality into this world
your garden.
Thank you Father
for the seasons of our lives.
- Author Unknown
Friday, December 31, 2021
Ending 2021
Friday, April 2, 2021
Easter Week
See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose.
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows.
Earth with heaven above rejoices;
Fields and gardens hail the spring;
Shaughs* and woodlands ring with voices,
While the wild birds build and sing.
You, to whom your Maker granted
Powers to those sweet birds unknown,
Use the craft by God implanted;
Use the reason not your own.
Here, while heaven and earth rejoices,
Each his Easter tribute bring-
Work of fingers, chant of voices,
Like the birds who build and sing.
--Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
*archaic term for small woods, thicket
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Moisture Comes to Arizona
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
What Color Is Your Christmas?
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
More Sledding... More on Seasons
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December 2019 just south of Pine, AZ (north of Payson) | Yes, Arizona!!! |
After the flood, God told Noah:
"Through all the days of the earth,
Seedtime and Harvest,
Cold and Heat,
Summer and Winter.
Day and Night
Will not take rest
[cease, pause, have a 'Sabbath'.] "
---Genesis 8:22; original translation
This is but one of our seasons as we move through time.
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