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Posted on 02/02/2006 11:33:14 PM PST by Mama_Bear
Holy cow! I guess this isn't a good time to tell you that I had to use my air conditioner in the car on the way home from work, is it? :/
How did the flying lesson go?
So beautiful, dutchess!
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How's your new baby?
| February 5, 2006
The Sensuous Christian
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The gratification of our senses has gotten a bad reputation, perhaps because we live in a world obsessed with pleasure. But God approves of the proper experience of pleasure through our five senses.
First, God created our senses—sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch—and all that He created is good.
Second, God made sensuousness a part of worship. Consider God's first formal worship setting: the tabernacle. It housed an ornate, gold-covered ark to hold the stone tablets God gave to Moses on Mt. Sinai. God approves of beauty. It had an altar of incense where priests burned a blend of fragrant spices made by a perfumer. God approves of pleasant aromas. It had an elaborate table with plates and pitchers. God approves of a tasteful dining experience. Around the tabernacle were curtains made from colorful yarn and finely twisted linen. God approves of beautiful colors and textures. Music was also a component of worship, as we learn from reading 2 Chronicles 29:28. God approves of pleasing sounds.
Yes, God values things that look, sound, smell, taste, and feel good. But He doesn't want us to worship them; He wants our enjoyment and gratitude to prompt us to worship Him, the Creator and giver of all good things. —Julie Ackerman Link
It makes sense to use our senses to glorify God.
Josy...aka Josephine Howard
Heavy snow here.. just started my car(or tried to).. no luck. May miss church as my alternate ride options wont be there today. Superbowl party later.. but I wont be needing to drive for that
what you doing today? super bowl interest in your household?. Cleveland is supposed to be anti Pittsburgh ..big rivalry..(that we always lose)... but I am pretty well neutral in the outing.
Saw Glory Road (for second time) last night. Love the story.. 1966 March Madness... El Paso vs Kentucky. A real winner if you follow basketball & even if you don't there is a lot to like about this movie & the "cinderella" effect. Kentucky fans might not like it however
Have a good day Rus. Might see you later here
I am interested in the pregame and will check in on the game from time to time..I hope they do the Star Spangled Banner as well as last year's. I don't care who wins!
Your puppy is so beautiful..They are a LOT of trouble to train, though! It's been a long time since I had a puppy.
She was a boxer and a wonderful dog.
Good morning, Mayor. Have a blessed Sunday..sing out in church.
Thanks for the beautiful lesson from God's Word.
Weinie
I am glad, Weinie. I love them, too.!
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Uh huh - LadyX was absent for two days, and Woofie Toofums
was as usual on the prowl, charmin' the ladies...:)
While on a secret recon mission,
I happened to see him stalkin' our Luvbo!!
[run, Luvvy, run!!]
Over here too.. : )
Also not a good time to mention that I was out mowing the grass yesterday.
Not warm enough to put the top down on the Mustang though. :)
So did I here in South Carolina, Luvvy, when I went to the store. Although it was cold and windy last night and this morning, the cold fronts sail on past us and we rapidly return to pleasant weather.
Spring is definitely fraying winter around the edges! Love the pansies photograph, Meggsie, having had them every winter for many years in North Carolina and here.
To mark the calendar turning to 2000 and a New Century, I made as Christmas gifts for my daughter, two daughters-in-law and two granddaughters 5 x 8 framed displays of pansies I had pressed in my Concordance between sheets of waxed paper...on the bottom right, put a verse from Isaiah.
Each one was different, of course, with little sprigs of delicate ferns, etc., and I signed them on the back, plus the Year 2000 to identify the event.
I have a large square pecan coffee table with 4 pecan-framed glass sections forming the top. Each has two pieces of glass, and on the lower left one, I inserted scattered pressed pansies between them...happy little unexpected touch...
That sounds like a such a lovely keepsake,LadyX. I love pansies.
Perhaps the most enjoyable fall I experienced was in Fairbanks, when we lived in woods near the airport west of town. Most of the time the snow there is dry, and not suitable for making a snowman or a good snowball fight.
In March of 1963, though, a wet one fell on a day when Bernie and the boys, then 7 and 8, were home, and we dashed out to take advantage of it.
In Alaska, a very common sight near dwellings is a built-on-stilts cache - mini-storage-house - where the owners can keep their meat (any kind, and from moose, caribou) so bears and other predators cannot get to it.
(They easily can smash and rip into a cabin/house to get at food.)
We had one on the other side of the driveway, with a ladder going up.
With the snow on the ground already about 7 or 8 feet deep, and this new soft fall on top, the boys clambered up the ladder to the roof of the cache and jumped down into it, going around and around.
Meanwhile, Bernie near it crafted a snowman that was at least ten feet tall!
I have a photo of it somewhere among my pack rat treasures, Dolly..:)).
Here is a photograph of a typical Alaska cache --
ours was a very simple one, and we did not actually use it:
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