Here in Canada we have enjoyed a beautiful long Thanksgiving weekend. The weather has been amazing - warm and sunny most of the time! Our little family of four have had a mini-vacation away from the city... it's been so nice to relax together doing fall-like activities -- a hike through a conservation area (love that crisp dead-leaf fall scent!), a visit to a farm with a horse-drawn wagon ride and a corn maze, eating turkey, playing in leaves... and a bit of summer thrown in with time at the beach playing in the sand and listening to the waves. No swimming this time! :)
Down time like this and getting out into nature is good for the soul. It causes me to pause and to count my blessings... a true time of Thanksgiving to the Giver of all good gifts.
It's only fitting that my verse for October 15th is:
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Ps 118:29
What have you been enjoying lately? What verse will be your theme to focus on the last half of October?
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Scripture Memory - Verse 19
Good morning friends!
Such a beautiful morning today - the sun always shines brighter after a grey drizzly day, don't you find?
A sunny fall day makes me feel all optimistic - like maybe I will actually be disciplined this October and memorize my verse properly?! ;)
I can't remember if I've confessed this here before or not... but I'm a blog-reading addict. I spend too much time reading all sorts of wonderfully encouraging blogs that urge me to walk closer to God... many tips and suggestions are given to live more disciplined and to faithfully serve Him. I am wowed and encouraged by the faith-walk of so many others and long for such faith in my own life.
Now, reading these isn't a bad thing. We ARE to encourage each other and to build each other up, and I believe that's what a lot of these blog posts I read are meant to do.
But if one doesn't take the message/truth and apply it in our own lives, than it's useless.
So that leads me to my verse for October 1st.
James 1:22 - Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
Praying THIS becomes more than words to me, but the Truth that it is.
How about you friends? What are you choosing to focus on for the first half of October?
Such a beautiful morning today - the sun always shines brighter after a grey drizzly day, don't you find?
A sunny fall day makes me feel all optimistic - like maybe I will actually be disciplined this October and memorize my verse properly?! ;)
I can't remember if I've confessed this here before or not... but I'm a blog-reading addict. I spend too much time reading all sorts of wonderfully encouraging blogs that urge me to walk closer to God... many tips and suggestions are given to live more disciplined and to faithfully serve Him. I am wowed and encouraged by the faith-walk of so many others and long for such faith in my own life.
Now, reading these isn't a bad thing. We ARE to encourage each other and to build each other up, and I believe that's what a lot of these blog posts I read are meant to do.
But if one doesn't take the message/truth and apply it in our own lives, than it's useless.
So that leads me to my verse for October 1st.
James 1:22 - Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
Praying THIS becomes more than words to me, but the Truth that it is.
How about you friends? What are you choosing to focus on for the first half of October?
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