Forgiven

Out in the Open

Amy Grant 

They were the sweetest words I'd ever heard

My heart could barely take it in

Like water offered to the lips

of a tired, thirsty man

'Cause it's a tangled web I've woven,

 and I don't know all the reasons

But it amazes me to wake up

 to your mercy every morning

So I'm standing here spinning around

in the fields of freedom

And I'm still alive and reaching out 

And I can feel the healing

'Cause You say 

"Come on out - come on out

out in the open

come on out - come on out

 into the light

There is no jury, there is no judge 

Ready and waiting 

are the steady arms of Love"

***

Liberty

`For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 
So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. 
And the Lord - who is the Spirit - makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image'

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

NLT

Journey

Belair National Park 

South Australia

***

`No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived

what God has prepared for those who love him.'

1 Corinthians 2:9

Hospitality

-Feathered visitors-

***

'When friends are at your hearth side met, 

sweet courtesy has done its most

if you have made each guest forget 

that he himself is not the host'

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Tides

Glenelg South Australia

"Can you see the air you breath? Can you see the force that moves the tides 

or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?..

.. Oh Marcus, you can't carve God out in stone, you can't limit 

him to a temple. You can't imprison him to a mountaintop.

Heaven is his throne;  Earth, his footstool. Everything you see

is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails."

A Voice in the Wind

Francine Rivers

Vine

`The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependant on it,

can still ripen a bunch of grapes 

as if it had nothing else in the universe to do'

Galileo Galilei

Worth

`What is the price of two sparrows - one copper coin?

Yet not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your father knowing it.

And the very hairs on your head are numbered 

So don't be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows'

Matthew 10 : 29-31

( NLT )

Captivated

Captivated 

Shawn McDonald

`When I look into the mountains

I see your fame

When I look into the night sky

it sparkles your name

The wind and the clouds and the blue in the sky

The sun and the moon and the stars so high

that's what draws me to You

I am, I'm captivated by You

in all that You do

I am, I'm captivated`..

Autumn

'Every leaf speaks bliss to me,

fluttering from the autumn tree'

Emily Bronte

Harvest

'That i may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all 

thy wondrous works'  

Psalm 26: 7