How many times have we come up short with what we are told by God to do. It seems sometimes we don’t understand or don’t want to understand our horrible flaw of disobedience. I sometimes think that God needs to hit me over the head to show me what it is like for him to deal with a child who wants to do it their way. I had a student this week who was to write her own lines after doing some research on the products of a region of Virginia. After showing her a site where all she had to do was copy the products I thought all was said and done.
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Thanksgiving Cornucopia
Making your own cornucopia arrangement from fruits, greens and flowers is a wonderful expression of thanksgiving to the Lord for all His abundance, blessings and provisions. You can make one with a wicker, glass, ceramic or metal cornucopia. If you don’t want to obtain floral products from a florist, you can use many things you have growing in your own yard. After selecting your cornucopia you’ll want to find a plastic, waterproof container that will fit inside to hold floral foam. I found a container that my take-out soup had come in. Soak the instant floral foam (you can purchase it a craft store) until saturated. Cut to fit the container with approx 1” above the top. Insert the container into cornucopia and tape securely with waterproof floral tape. Now have fun collecting your greens, fruits and flowers. Green your container first. I used Japanese Mock Orange (Pittosporum tobira) as the main greenery, which is an evergreen shrub in zones 8-11.
President Obama or Clinton?
I am a doubter when it comes to politicians’ words! But, I feel as a Christian that it is my responsibility to pray for our leaders. It is very difficulty for me to do this when I don’t see or hear much happen from their words. The economy of the American people is in a crisis situation when it comes to the average person but not when it comes to Michelle Obama or her family’s clothes, or lifestyle. I guess it is not stylish for our President and his family to model the lifestyle that one should live when it comes to the economy. And, on the President Elect, Barack, I read more about “will he have to give up his Blackberry or not than how he is going to live out his great promises to the American people?” His big change seems to be that he has been reincarnated as former President Bill Clinton.
Quote
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie Ten Boom
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A Rainbow of Hope
Verse for Our Day
Psalm 33:13-14 NLT
“The Lord looks down from Heaven and sees the whole human race. From His throne He observes all who live on the Earth.”
Woolly Bear Winter Prediction
We can now accurately predict the harshness for Northern Virginia’s upcoming winter. Based on the purely scientific method of Woolly Bear analysis, we have a prediction for winter 2009. The ratio of black to brown bands on the Woolly Bear can foretell the harshness of the upcoming winter. More black the harsher the winter; more brown predicts a gentler winter.
How does the Woolly Bear accomplish this task? When the caterpillars grow during a wetter fall, the black bands will be larger then the brown one. A wetter fall sets a trend toward a wetter and milder winter.
I found this Woolly Bear in Sky Meadow’s State Park. The smaller black bands on his body predict we will have a mild winter. Don’t worry about buying a new snow shovel this year; the Woolly Bear has spoken.
Together, As One
“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 ASV
(Chris @ Big Obama card in DC)
Are we seeing?
“I don’t know whether he is a sinner,” the man replied. “But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!” (John 9:25).
Jesus healed a blind man and the religious crowd got all upset. They started arguing over why he was healed, and how he was healed, and who was to blame for him being blind in the first place. The man said, “I can’t answer all of your questions. but I can tell you this; I was blind, but now I see.”
When I speak with the ‘religious crowd’ today about this past Presidential Election I feel just this way. “I can’t answer all your questions, but I can tell you this, I was blind, but now I can see.” I wrote a song some time ago that has a lot of meaning to me, “WaitingRoom” and the chorus says, “as I wait, I see His Face shining as a Glory of Grace.” Another part “I can see, I can see, in the world as I go for His Light has broken forth in my soul!” Can you see and hear today what the Spirit is saying?
“we shall see what we shall see”
When I was a child I remember Sister Grandma would reply when we asked her for something that maybe wasn’t on the family budget or pertaining to a request to go to a friend’s house or attend an event, etc.….her answer often would be, “we shall see what we shall see”. To us kids it meant, she would look into it later and decide whether it was a worthy request. The answer was deferred until she had more light on the subject.
Later on in life I heard people use that expression to mean that they would not judge or know the outcome of something until they SAW its manifestation down the road, somewhere. And what they SAW would be the answer. It’s a little like FAITH in REVERSE. Faith says you believe before you see it, and then you will get to see it. This says that you won’t believe it until you see it and that will be the solution….what you see. That’s a little scary because Paul tells us we see in a mirror darkly. So if we judge only by appearances are we judging rightly?
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