Friday, October 31, 2008
daytime moon
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Sing!
Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.
Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord.
-- Ephesians 5:19
Monday, October 27, 2008
who decides
Every day you either live by priorities or you live by pressures. You either decide what is important in your life or else you let other people tell you what is most important in your life.
-- Rick Warren
Sunday, October 26, 2008
today & tomorrow
Mark it down. Today’s thoughts are tomorrow’s actions. Today’s jealousy is tomorrow’s temper tantrum. Today’s bigotry is tomorrow’s hate crime. Today’s anger is tomorrow’s abuse. Today’s lust is tomorrow’s adultery. Today’s greed is tomorrow’s embezzlement. Today’s guilt is tomorrow’s fear. Today’s thoughts are tomorrow’s actions.
-- Max Lucado
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
trust
Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help.
Psalm 146:3
Saturday, October 18, 2008
late invitation
Tomorrow morning I will be leading both services and preaching at Beaver Lake Lutheran Church in Maplewood, Minnesota. The title of my message is Anxiety, Adversity, and Ambiguity. You can find directions and service times on the Church's web site.
Friday, October 17, 2008
strength
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
-- Psalm 73:26
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
live forever
The world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God live forever.
-- 1 John 2:17
Sunday, October 12, 2008
a benediction
Now, wherever we are,
and in every place,
and at every hour,
throughout each time of each day,
may all of us honestly and humbly believe,
holding in our hearts
to love, honor,
adore, serve,
praise, bless,
glorify, exalt,
magnify, and give thanks
to the Most High and Eternal God,
Trinity and Unity.
Amen.
-- St. Francis of Assisi
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
forever
We will be with the Lord forever.
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
-- 1 Thessalonians 4:17,18
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Monday, October 06, 2008
salvation
And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.-- Hebrews 9:27-28
Sunday, October 05, 2008
The Day of Death
No one has power ... over the day of death ...-- Ecclesiastes 8:8
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Where are they?
But mortals die, and are laid low;humans expire, and where are they?
-- Job 14:10
Friday, October 03, 2008
Fully Human
I have learned that to become fully human is to live with the awareness that we will not live in our human bodies forever. To become fully human is to celebrate the joys of birth and the sorrows of death. To be fully human is to walk on this earth realizing that the greater gift that we do not yet fully comprehend is yet to be known. It is to realize that our humanity is connected to the dust of this earth, where our bodies will one day return. The brokenness, the sorrows and imperfections of this life will one day pass away when we will enter that place where we will behold God face to face.-- Randall W. Trego
Thursday, October 02, 2008
A Grateful Death
When we think about death, we often think about what will happen to us after we have died. But it is more important to think about what will happen to those we leave behind. The way we die has a deep and lasting effect on those who stay alive. It will be easier for our family and friends to remember us with joy and peace if we have said a grateful good-bye than if we die with bitter and disillusioned hearts.The greatest gift we can offer our families and friends is the gift of gratitude. Gratitude sets them free to continue their lives without bitterness or self-recrimination.
-- Henri Nouwen Society
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
The Quality of Life
It is very hard to accept an early death. When friends die who are seventy, eighty, or ninety years old, we may be in deep grief and miss them very much, but we are grateful that they had long lives. But when a teenager, a young adult, or a person at the height of his or her career dies, we feel a protest rising from our hearts: "Why? Why so soon? Why so young? It is unfair."But far more important than our quantity of years is the quality of our lives. Jesus died young. St. Francis died young. St. Therese of Lisieux died young, Martin Luther King, Jr., died young. We do not know how long we will live, but this not knowing calls us to live every day, every week, every year of our lives to its fullest potential.
-- Henri Nouwen Society
Yesterday's, today's, and the next several day's post photos are of a cemetery just on the edge of Marvin, SD
