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Believe it or not!, Inspiring, Photos, Scripture

Sunday Scripture – Movement

Posted on July 8, 2012July 7, 2012 by Katharine

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie — the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

John 5:2-11

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Good ol' days, Sayings

Saturday Sayings – Movement

Posted on July 7, 2012July 6, 2012 by Katharine

No member needs

so great a number of muscles as the tongue;

this exceeds all the rest

in the number of its movements.

— Leonardo da Vinci

From his Notebooks

Leonardo, a bit “tongue in cheek”?

Good ol' days, Health, Photos, Who's the mom here?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement

Posted on July 6, 2012July 7, 2012 by Katharine

When it is really hot and dry outside, children can suffer from lack of sunlight and exercise.We want them to enjoy fresh air and full range of movement, daily, but of course, no one sends them outdoors to play, with the goal of heat exhaustion!

We know how water helps, yet, not everyone can afford or even wants a facility for swimming. This is when a small wading pool serves best.

Children playing in water are cool enough. And in this small water element, these large children will not drown.

Although we might predict these children, who know how to swim, might find such a puddle boring, I remembered the fun I had in my childhood and decided to give it a try.

Success! They completely emptied it three times before they tired of this game of splash. They were pleasantly tired and satisfyingly rosy-cheeked when they clamored at the back door for some lunch. They even napped afterward, at their age!

When I have no small visitors, how easy to empty and dry this pool for storage!

At $10.00, it was a great bargain.

Why would anyone want to surrender this moment to someone else? Home’s cool!

Believe it or not!, Inspiring, Scripture

Sunday Scriptures – Fleeting Moment

Posted on July 1, 2012July 10, 2012 by Katharine

Listen, I tell you a mystery:

We will not all sleep,

but we will all be changed —

in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye,

at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound,

the dead will be raised imperishable,

and we will be changed.

— 1 Corinthians 15:51-52

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Inspiring, Sayings, Wisdom

Saturday Sayings – Fleeting Moments

Posted on June 30, 2012July 10, 2012 by Katharine

DIGITAL CAMERA — A fleeting moment before the heavens?

Thus heavenly hope is all serene,

But earthly hope, how bright soe’er,

Still fluctuates o’er this changing scene,

As false and fleeting as ‘tis fair.

–Reginald Heber

On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope

Believe it or not!, Inspiring, Photos

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting Moment

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Katharine

A Fleeting Moment On the Street is the challenge for this week.

I do not spend much time on the street, but while I covered news for our local newspaper, I did cover a proposition that involved the street, itself, as a fleeting moment.

First , you see the sign for a “fleeting moment” street, for those who can read.

As you can also see, it engenders wrath.

Next is the multi-cultural sign, which includes the non-reading culture, of course. And you also see folks around here have no trouble respecting that one.

Isn’t that how we always are? We resent what we do not understand and accept the easier stuff?

Yep.

And do we want to understand? Not always, if it means we might have been wrong. Admit it. We all do this.

However, quite often, those who put up warning signs are among those who know what’s coming and only hope, for a fleeting moment, to awaken us to dreadful possibilities, to protect us from our own mistakes, should we continue.

How kind!

How needed!

How I want to be like that!

Believe it or not!, Homemaking, Photos, Scripture, Womanhood

FIRE!

Posted on June 28, 2012June 28, 2012 by Katharine

Friends, we may think we have troubles.

But not like Colorado Springs, right now.

For an eye-witness report, from a sweet blogging lady, go here.

She speaks of her love for her friends and neighbors.

She is doing her best to help them.

Because she can. Because she is home.

She also says, on a subsequent post:

For once, I don’t feel much like I need to add anything to this glorious reassurance. Maybe I will sometime, but not this morning. This morning, this is my prayer – over my city, my life, and the lives of my loved ones.

“But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all day long, though I know not its measure.

I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, O Sovereign LORD; I will proclaim your righteousness, yours alone. Since my youth, O God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds. Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come.

Your righteousness reaches to the skies, O God, you who have done great things.

Who, O God, is like you?

Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.”

~Psalm 71:14-21 (NIV)

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