Sunday Brings...

Come to Your Own Conclusion

Setting Our Sails

It is the set of the sails,
not the direction of the wind
that determines which way we will go

Sometimes it is important to reevaluate how we look at life - so the last few days I've been gathering my thoughts and seeking direction. I pray: Lord, let me set sail to follow your course.

Out of Commission

Will be unavailable the next few days.
Taking a little break to recoup my thoughts.

Beauty Is...

God's Beauty Is Unequal

Where Are You Parking?

The road to success is lined
with many tempting parking spaces.

Don't you think that it would be safer and better to let success come to you instead of forcing it to fit your personal agenda?

Beauty Everywhere

Think of all the beauty still left around you
and be happy

Quote: Anne Frank

How's Your Oil?

Peeps - Always in Season

Don't even ask me why I'm stuck on Easter candies! I have not a clue, except doing so has educated me as to a new candy store (yesterday's post) and the facts as to Peeps. What I thought was a total Easter candy is not! Those marshmallow candies shaped into chicks, bunnies, and other animals, is considered a candy for all seasons. True it started out with only yellow chicks (originally formed by hand and coming in only one color-Yellow). Well, enough of my jabbering - here's a few pics to show you some Peeps that are out there.

50% Off, You Think?

Got to drooling over some Easter candies located at The Candy Store on Russian Hill in San Francisco. Think any TCS goodies might go on sale at 50% off since it's after the event?

And here's the one that I'm most interested in...

Chocolate Bunny is hand formed.

Well, the more I think about these delectables, the more I doubt any will go on sale. If I want discounted Easter candy, it's time to head to a "Mart" store to pick up a "cloned" sweet (even though it wouldn't taste anything like the above).

You know it's that way in life too - we can either pay the price to get the best or we can settle for something not nearly as good at a bargain price. As for candy, a bargain is okay but I want the best of what God has for me no matter what the cost. I'm not interested in 50% off salvation.

He's Alive!

I love Easter time. For many it is only a celebration of bunny rabbits and colored eggs but to us who know Christ in the fullest, it is a celebration commemorating His resurrection. So today I say, Glory to God in the Highest, for Jesus is Risen! Yes, HE truly LIVES!

A Pattern of Love

A pattern of thorns placed upon a brow
Unveiling a crown, dignity not to allow.
A pattern of heading up Calvary’s hill
Steep and roughed as to break one’s will.

A pattern of pillage of the mind and flesh
Taunting and mocking to amply enmesh
A pattern of rejection encased on a tree
Gnarled and crooked, no beauty to see.

A pattern of royalty hung between thieves
Seizing a moment of overwhelming griefs
A pattern of nails driven in a pure hand
Revealing the cruelty of the cynical man.

A pattern of blood gushing from a King’s side
Piercing the spirit, humility no room to abide
A pattern of a robe engaged in a game
Soldiers gambling lots, to the owner’s defame.

Then comes a pattern of mercy and grace
Because of Calvary, transgressions to erase
For a pattern of love died for our sins to depart
Devotion designed in our God’s own heart.

A Pattern of Love, written by Karen Hopper

Calvary's Voice

Calvary speaks of unwavering love...
Love pressed against a rugged cross,
Crimson trails etching their way downward
in a solemn journey to the ground.

Calvary reaches out in love...
Love that echoes its song across the canyon,
Triumphantly releasing a serenade of conquests
Having mastered death, hell and the grave.

Calvary's Voice, written by Karen Hopper

Scratch for Your Rights!

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me;
I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte