God Finger Paints

"You know God...
Paints every color on a butterfly
with His fingers"
~Emily, in The Ultimate Gift

Teaching Along the Road...

“You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart
and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand,
and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.
“You shall teach them to your sons,
talking of them when you sit in your house
and when you walk along the road
and when you lie down and when you rise up.
“You shall write them on the doorposts of your house
and on your gates,
so that your days
and the days of your sons
may be multiplied
on the land which the LORD
swore to your fathers to give them,
as long as the heavens remain above the earth.
~Deut. 11:18-21

The Bride

Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls

containing the seven last plagues came and said to me,
“Come with me! I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
So he took me in spirit to a great, high mountain,
and he showed me the holy city, Jerusalem,
descending out of heaven from God.
It was filled with the glory of God
and sparkled like a precious gem,
crystal clear like jasper.
~Rev. 21:9-11

Everlasting Joy Upon Their Heads

For waters will break forth in the wilderness

And streams in the Arabah.
The scorched land will become a pool
And the thirsty ground springs of water;
In the haunt of jackals, its resting place,
Grass becomes reeds and rushes.
And the ransomed of the LORD will return
And come with joyful shouting to Zion,
With everlasting joy upon their heads.
They will find gladness and joy,
And sorrow and sighing will flee away.
-Is. 35:6-7 & 10

Lord May I Be Radiant

“No one lights a lamp and then hides it or puts it under a basket.
Instead, it is put on a lampstand to give light to
all who enter the room.
Your eye is a lamp for your body.
A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul.
But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness.
Make sure that the light you think you have is not really darkness.
If you are filled with light, with no dark corners,
then your whole life will be radiant,
as though a floodlight is shining on you.”
-Luke 11:33-36

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart;
good news makes for good health.
-Prov. 15:30

“...anyone who belongs to Christ
has become a new person.
The old life is gone;
a new life has begun!”
-2 Corin. 5:17