Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... May, 2010

May 1, 2010 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie

[JustAmy]

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[yorkie]

Yes, “Ugh” is right, Nan! Night.......Hope to see you again soon! ((((((((((W Va Nan)))))))))))

[The Mayor]

Thank you Amy! That pic is cute.

[The Mayor]

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May 20, 2010

A Worthy Offering

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READ: Genesis 4:1-7

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. —Genesis 4:7

I was delighted when a mutual friend gave my neighbor a Bible. But my neighbor told me she stopped reading it because she couldn’t understand why God would be so unfair as to reject Cain’s offering. “After all,” she said, “as a farmer, he simply brought to God what he had. Did God expect him to buy a different kind of sacrifice?” Sadly, she had missed the point.

It wasn’t that God didn’t like vegetables. Rather, He knew that Cain’s offering was masking an unrighteous attitude. Cain wasn’t fully committed to God, as expressed by the fact that he wasn’t living according to His ways.

It’s easy to worship God on the outside while stubbornly keeping territory from Him on the inside. Jude writes about outwardly religious people who use religious activities to cover the reality of their sinful lives: “Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain” (Jude 11). We can faithfully serve God, sing His praises, and give sacrificially to His work. But God doesn’t want any of that without our hearts.

Does the Lord take priority over our plans and dreams? Is He worth more than the sin that tempts us? When we express to Him that He is more worthy than anything or anyone else in our lives, it’s an offering He won’t refuse.

Lord, may our worship and our praise,
From hearts surrendered to Your ways,
Be worthy offerings of love
For all Your blessings from above. —Sper

God won’t refuse a heart that is surrendered to Him.

Bible in One Year: 1 Chronicles 10-12; John 6:45-71

[The Mayor]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG!

[JustAmy]

May 20, 2010



Graphic by Billie

The horses paw and prance and neigh,
Fillies and colts like kittens play,
And dance and toss their rippled manes
Shining and soft as silken skeins;...
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

[ConorMacNessa]

HAPPY THURSDAY TO AMY’S PLACE!

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Dún Aonghasa , Megalithic Fortress, Inishmore, Co. Galway, Ireland

Enjoy your Thursday!!!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[JustAmy]

Happy Birthday, Meg.
Wishing you the happiest birthday ever with many more to follow.

Have a blessed day.

[yorkie]

Conor, I always love your graphics of Ireland. This morning, I found a beautiful picture to post for you, but it is too large to post here and loses quality when resized.

http://i48.tinypic.com/10x91ew.jpg (575,000bytes)

The famous Kylemore Abbey...The Abbey is the Monastic home of the Benedictine Order of Nuns in Ireland, located in the scenic Connemara region...Its gardens, a portion of the Abbey and a lovely chapel are open to the public...It is perhaps the most-photographed landmark in Ireland!

[jaycee]

Couldn’t be more beautiful, ladies! Most of us adore horses, even though we don’t have them.

Amy, I’m having to take off this morning to pick up my prescriptions and get hair done. Didn’t go last week and I need a trim. Its been a very rushful morning and everything I’ve done, its made another mess. Hope its not gonna be one of those days.

[jaycee]

Good Morning Yorkie!
Have a great day!

[jaycee]

Good Morning Conor!
Wishing you a great day!
*Hugs*

[JustAmy]

Happy Thursday, Rus.
Thank you for sharing the ODB Scripture again this morning.
These messages help us start the day on the right path.

Wishing you a beautiful Thursday.

[ConorMacNessa]

Thank you, Yorkie - I had the good fortune to visit Kylemore Abbey when I was in Ireland in 1970 - Hard to believe that it was 40 years ago!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[yorkie]

Because you’re very special
I hope your Birthday holds in store
Happy hours that overflow
With all you’re wishing for,

And I hope the days that follow it
Make up a year that brings
Everything that you deserve
A million happy things.

WISHING YOU A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MEG!

[yorkie]

HAPPY THURSDAY TO YOU, JC!

[WVNan]

I’m sorry that I missed thanking you last night Johnn. I appreciate your concern. God bless.

[yorkie]

The way those horse graphics
are put together for today's opening,
is just short of MAGIC!

Thank you Billie and Amy

[WVNan]

jaycee, about your leg pain. I had a full year last year of horrible knee pain. I managed to rehab the torn ligament, but was left with pain in the front of my knee. I started taking Trigosamine and in a very short time the pain was gone. Recently, Wal-Mart was out of the Trigosamine, so I got another Glucosamine product. It didn’t work and my knee started hurting again. I went back and found some Trigosamine and the pain is back under control. So, you might try it and see if would help.

[tiapam]

Happy Thirsty Thursday to All!

[WVNan]

Hi Rus,
Let me add a theological point to today’s devotion. There is a clue in the Scripture that the offering that Cain brought was not the “First Fruits” of the crop, but Abel’s offering was the firstlings of his flock. See? God wants the first of what He gives us, not the left-overs.