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Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... July, August and September, 2018
July 1, 2018 | Meg33, The Mayor, Trisham, JustAmy

Posted on 06/30/2018 9:52:12 PM PDT by JustAmy




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Many Beautiful Things


September 25, 2018

She has done a beautiful thing to me. Mark 14:6

Just before her death, artist and missionary Lilias Trotter looked out a window and saw a vision of a heavenly chariot. According to her biographer, a friend asked, “Are you seeing many beautiful things?” She answered, “Yes, many, many beautiful things.”

Trotter’s final words reflect God’s work in her life. Not only in death, but throughout her life, He revealed much beauty to her and through her. Although a talented artist, she chose to serve Jesus as a missionary in Algeria. John Ruskin, a famous painter who tutored her, is said to have commented, “What a waste,” when she chose the mission field over a career in art.

Similarly, in the New Testament, when a woman came to Simon the Leper’s house with an alabaster jar and poured perfume on Jesus’s head, those present saw it as a waste. This expensive perfume was worth a year’s common wages, so some of the people present thought it could have been used to help the poor. However, commending this woman’s deep devotion to Him, Jesus said, “She has done a beautiful thing to me” (Mark 14:6).

Every day we can choose to let Christ’s life shine in our lives and display His beauty to the world. To some, it may seem a waste, but let us have willing hearts to serve Him. May Jesus say we have done many beautiful things for Him.

Dear Father, help me express my love to You in beautiful ways.

May our lives display the beauty of God.

INSIGHT

How can we, like the woman in Mark 14, do beautiful things for Christ? We can offer the beauty of “a gentle and quiet spirit” which “is of great worth in God’s sight” (1 Peter 3:3–4). Gentleness is one of the fruit of the Spirit described in Galatians 5:22–23, a list of characteristics that display Christ at work in our lives. We are to “pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness” (1 Timothy 6:11). When we are willing to be used by Him, the Spirit produces fruit and can guide us to do beautiful things.

For more on the beauty of a Spirit-filled life, check out the online course “Foundations of Spiritual Formation I: The Work of the Spirit” at christianuniversity.org/SF507.


701 posted on 09/25/2018 3:39:47 AM PDT by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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Grateful for the beautiful colors of Fall.
Happy GratiTuesday!

702 posted on 09/25/2018 9:41:19 AM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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Beautiful, LUV W!


703 posted on 09/25/2018 10:07:38 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Happy Gratituesday!






Always Grateful For My Wonderful FRiends!

(((HUGS)))

ML/LTOS

704 posted on 09/25/2018 10:47:45 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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That beautiful scene was actually taken on the bike path behind my kids’ apartment complex. It’s so beautiful in their part of WY!


705 posted on 09/25/2018 11:18:55 AM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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Amen! (((hugs)))


706 posted on 09/25/2018 11:19:45 AM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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Wow. What a view!


707 posted on 09/25/2018 11:19:57 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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They say they never get tired of it! I can see why!


708 posted on 09/25/2018 11:40:09 AM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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Me too. :)


709 posted on 09/25/2018 11:41:01 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: LUV W

Gorgeous! Awesome view!


710 posted on 09/25/2018 7:13:17 PM PDT by MEG33 (Help Shorten FReepathons......DONATE MONTHLY)
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Thank you, Megs! It was hard to leave that...then I remembered the 4 feet of snow they had winter before last. And then got on the plane. LOL!


711 posted on 09/25/2018 7:19:59 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: LUV W

There is that! LOL
I am in awe of that view...So grateful you took that picture and shared it...and so happy you had that visit!


712 posted on 09/25/2018 8:11:08 PM PDT by MEG33 (Help Shorten FReepathons......DONATE MONTHLY)
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Thank you! I’m glad I got the pic. I had seen those gorgeous golden aspens when we were driving, so I walked back to it later and snapped the picture and a few others. There are picture worthy views all around that area.


713 posted on 09/25/2018 8:29:57 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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It’s Not About the Fish


September 26, 2018

When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented. Jonah 3:10

Sighted numerous times off the coast of Australia’s South Queensland, Migaloo is the first albino humpback whale ever documented. The splendid creature, estimated at more than forty feet long, is so rare that Australia passed a law specifically to protect him.

The Bible tells us about a “huge fish” so rare that God had provided it especially to swallow a runaway prophet (Jonah 1:17). Most know the story. God told Jonah to take a message of judgment to Nineveh. But Jonah wanted nothing to do with the Ninevites, who had a reputation for cruelty to just about everyone—including the Hebrews. So he fled. Things went badly. From inside the fish, Jonah repented. Eventually he preached to the Ninevites, and they repented too (3:5–10).

Great story, right? Except it doesn’t end there. While Nineveh repented, Jonah pouted. “Isn’t this what I said, Lord?” he prayed. “I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love” (4:2). Having been rescued from certain death, Jonah’s sinful anger grew until even his prayer became suicidal (v. 3).

The story of Jonah isn’t about the fish. It’s about our human nature and the nature of the God who pursues us. “The Lord is patient with you,” wrote the apostle Peter, “not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). God offers His love to brutal Ninevites, pouting prophets, and you and me.

Father, we tend to look at what others “deserve” and forget we need
Your love just as much. Help us live in Your love and tell others about it.

Our love has limits; God’s love is limitless.

INSIGHT

What a difference a couple of chapters can make in the tone of Jonah’s prayers! In Jonah 2:2, the desperate prophet prayed, “In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me.” But in Jonah 4:3, he asks God to kill him. God answered the first prayer miraculously, delivering Jonah from death. But with the second prayer, God simply asked, “Is it right for you to be angry?” (4:4). Then Jonah actually repeats his death wish. “I’m so angry I wish I were dead” (v. 9). Even then, God appealed to Jonah by sharing His heart for all of humanity. “Should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh?” God even extends His concern to the animals that would have been destroyed in Nineveh (v. 11). The book of Jonah provides a fascinating contrast between human nature, which is self-serving, and the profoundly loving and patient character of God.

How do we respond to God’s grace to us? Do we resent it when He extends that grace to others we may perceive as “worse” than we are? Do we resemble Jonah when things don’t go the way we’d like them to?


714 posted on 09/26/2018 3:50:51 AM PDT by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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Amen
Thank you, Rus, for starting my day off right
every day

715 posted on 09/26/2018 6:02:04 AM PDT by MEG33 (Help Shorten FReepathons......DONATE MONTHLY)
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WELCOME TO WARM FUZZY WEDNESDAY
AT AMY'S PLACE


~September by John Updike~
~~~~~
The breezes taste
Of apple peel.
The air is full
Of smells to feel-
Ripe fruit, old footballs,
Burning brush,
New books, erasers,
Chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum,
And Mother cuts
Chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean
With suds, the days
Are polished with
A morning haze.

WISHING YOU A LOVELY AUTUMN DAY

716 posted on 09/26/2018 6:04:47 AM PDT by MEG33 (Help Shorten FReepathons......DONATE MONTHLY)
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Good morning! It is cool and sunny here. Lovely.


717 posted on 09/26/2018 8:37:21 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty ( Trump is The Storm)
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Napping with my buddy.
Happy Warm and Fuzzy
Wednesday!

718 posted on 09/26/2018 11:22:00 AM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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I Would Like Autumn Better...






...If Winter Didn't Come Right After!

Happy Warm & Fuzzy Wednesday!

((((HUGS))))

719 posted on 09/26/2018 11:46:48 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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That would be better all right. Or if it lasted longer and winter shorter. I love fall though. It’s such a relief after our summers!


720 posted on 09/26/2018 2:42:10 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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