Scripture Pictures To Share

This past week I finished reading through Proverbs and 

Ecclesiastes.  

Here are a few  pictures with verses that 

stood out to me.

  Feel free to keep or share any you like.  

xoxo,
L

New Year.. New Heart

 The end of 2013 is drawing near.  

It seems; the week of Christmas came and went so quickly.  But then;

so did the whole year.

One year ago - right about now... .. I was choosing and deciding on my new words for 2013.

They were:

Light.

Mercy

and Love.    

Light became something I was drawn to and

discovered  the most beautiful things in it.  It became part of  a treasure hunt

almost when taking photos. Often I'd turn and there it'd be... streaming through

a hole in a leaf... or making sunflower and morning glory petals translucent, 

... shining all across the potters bench,...  warming the hood of a rusty olde tractor, a wooden hayfilled

manger, and even spotlighting a hen on a ladder.... - It lit up the harvest moon, and often came beaming down  right through the clouds 

 onto this little farm.  Being one of my words... I started seeing it differently.

  

Mercy ...and love - both are things that I think somehow  keep growing 

our hearts to become more like Christ.   Surely they keep growing us  right into forever. 

Mercy is something I realize I need on a daily basis... - and learning to give it too.

and Love... well... 

-God's love- .. so  amazing... bigger than anything comprehendable.

And somehow I've learned over the last almost 50 years that miraculously

our hearts have this gigantanormous capacity to keep growing more love.  Big big love!

Turning it into an action word can be the hard part.  I've been  challenged this year

especially with   

--last years anchor verse Luke 10:27

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

This scripture  became so special to me and is one I've struggled with. 

 

For the past year, notebooks have been filled and lessons learned with thoughts and happenings 

with this verse and these three words.  I'm thankful to have had them

on the journey.

This coming year, I didn't have to look for an anchor  or word... it was more like

the new verse keeps finding me.  

Time and time again, in the past month;

I kept opening my bible to this page in Ezekiel

Chpt 36:verse 26

I will give you a new heart and put a new 

spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone 

out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.  

Ezekiel??...one of the books in the bible 

I haven't been so  fond of.  

But all that's changing now.

How many hours were spent last year looking for 

heart rocks?  Every hike we went on even Myguy got

reminded to please keep his eyes open for heart rocks. ;) 

Going through the Greatest Gift devo 

and the last Art workshop; sketches like this

have been  winding up in my journal.

 hearts.

New heart.

So this year there's just 

one word instead of 3.

Heart.

Such a complex word.

Written so many times in the bible... 

so...  --

 I'm excited for a new year... 

To hang a brand new calender and 

grow in  everything God has for us all!

 It feels great to record it at the olde shed  tonight.

Are you ready for a fresh start?

Need a new beginning?

How about resolutions... yes or no?

None here.

Tomorrow will be day one to begin the devo

Whispers of HOPE by Beth Moore though.

It's been hard to not pick it up and start reading it early!  

It's almost 11:00... guess it's time to  sign off!

I'm painting the cover of a spiral notebook to begin 

counting gifts through Holy Experience.  A friend encouraged me 

to get back on the wagon... and so I'm on. 

I wish you ALL a happy and BLESSED

 new year! 

If you want to share your resolutions, verse, words,

or HEART ... feel free to leave a comment.

I'd love to hear.