Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. June 25-26-27, 2004

6-25-04 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear and Billie

[visualops]

Amy's Place is full of love and good thoughts.
Thank you :)

[visualops]

Have a cup while you FReep

Don't mind if I do!

[visualops]

Sure, be my guest!

[visualops]

Thank you!

[The Mayor]

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. -Psalm 150:6

A heart filled with praise brings pleasure to God.

[The Mayor]

June 27, 2004

Psalms, Incense, Praise

Read: Psalm 150

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. —Psalm 150:6

Bible In One Year: Job 8-10; Acts 8:26-40

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The well-known English preacher Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) wrote something that would be good to remember at the start of each day: "Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise." Let's look at each of these phrases.

Let your thoughts be psalms. The 150 psalms have a variety of themes, including praise, God's character, and expressions of dependence on the Lord. Throughout the day we can turn our thoughts into psalms by meditating on God's holiness, His worthiness of our worship, and how much we need Him.

Let your prayers be incense. In the tabernacle of the Jews, incense was burned continually to offer a sweet savor to the Lord (Exodus 30:7-8). Our prayers are like incense to God (Psalm 141:2), bringing to His nostrils the pleasing scent of our adoration and need for Him.

Let your breath be praise. The book of Psalms concludes with the words, "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!" (Psalm 150:6). Talking about God and offering Him words of praise should be as natural to us as breathing.

Keep the Lord in your thoughts, prayers, and speech today. —Dave Egner

Worship, praise, and adoration
All belong to Jesus' name;
Freely give your heart's devotion,
Constantly His love proclaim. —Anon.

A heart filled with praise brings pleasure to God.

[MeekOneGOP]

Well ! Good mornin', Sunshine ! How are you today ? Just lovely, I hope ! :^D

Here is a pic I 'borrowed' from The Mayor this morning and uploaded, LOL!:

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, great ! Thanks.

I've saved the image to my desktop and will take it to my PhotoDeluxe software (hopefully) today.

[SheLion]

Here is a pic I 'borrowed' from The Mayor this morning and uploaded, LOL!:

That is really cute, Meek!!

I'm trying to round up motivation to go cut the grass. ugh........

[MeekOneGOP]

haha ! The Mayor said I could use it. "Borrow" it if you'd like. :^)

I showed it to Potlatch. She loves little animated GIFs like that.

Mow. Ugh! is right.

We've had a pretty good shower - it's been raining all morning. It's still raining out there now.

You won't catch me complainin', though. We've had a very mild Summer so far. We've had rain and not too hot yet. Our Summers usually start in May and end in September/October. I expect we'll be in our usual drought by August, though. After all, this IS Texas and July is just around the corner.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Our Miss LulaBelle thinks that air conditioning and TV were invented for her.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Saw it. Just a minute ago. Trying to catch up.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Very powerful all.

[JustAmy]

You have freepmail.

I enjoyed the poem that you posted the other day.

[JustAmy]

Meekie, you will probably want to use the original drawing instead of this one that has Amy's Place on it.

I believe it is in post #49

Thank you, Visualops. That picture is just beautiful.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks, Amy ! For general posting purposes, I did just that.

Here it is:

Thanks, Visualops ! Great job ! :^D

[Billie]

You really capture the feel of all our graphics, Bob. Terrific poem. :)

[Billie]

Amy, thank you for the beautiful birthday card, and for the way you make each of us who 'enters' Amy's feel really special.

[Billie]

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

Now, I HOPE there's still some cake left! Yummmmm - lots of chocolate!

[Billie]

Thank you for the compliment on the Welcome graphic, Diva. Usually, Mama_Bear and I do the graphics first and Amy sends them to her 'poets' to *interpret*. Don't they do a great job. :)