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Sunday, April 23, 2023

Matanzas River - “Turn to Me With All Your Heart”

 

Now, therefore,” says the LORD, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”

So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.


Joel 2:12-13

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Shores Waterfront Park, Florida - “Call to Me and I Will Answer You”


 Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Jeremiah 33:3

Matanzas River, Shores Waterfront Park - “I Have Heard Your Prayers and Seen Your Tears”

 

“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the LORD.

2 Kings 20:5

Friday, April 7, 2023

Shores Waterfront Park - “Tree of Shame”




 
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Philippians 2:8


looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:2

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Matanzas River Sunset - “By His Wounds We are Healed”

 


But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 53:5

Friday, February 17, 2023

Shores Drive Park - “Each Night I Sing His Songs”

 



 But each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me, 

and through each night I sing his songs, 

praying to God who gives me life.

Psalm 42:8

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Shores Waterfront Park, Matanzas River - “No One will take Your Joy From You”





So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

John 16:22 (ESV)

Saturday, August 20, 2022

Matanzas River, Florida - Music in the Mundane


 This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24 NRSV

Thought for the Day:  God can use the ordinary to reveal the extraordinary.

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Matanzas River - “Return to me”


I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”

Isaiah 44:22

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Rapture in the Lonely Shore


There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

George Gordon Byron

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Matanzas River - Breaking Light


Then your light will break forth like the dawn,

and your healing will quickly appear;

Then your righteousness will go before you,

and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard,

Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; 

you will cry for help, and He will say:  Here am I.

Isaiah 58:8-9

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Matanzas River - “Believe in Him”

 


For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and  only Son. 

John 3:16-18 NIV



Friday, September 17, 2021

Pellicer Creek - "To See the World in a Grain of Sand"

 




"To see the World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."

By William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Psalm 115:3-4

Our God is in heaven;  he does whatever pleases him.
But their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Ft. Matanzas Beach - “In the Garden Alone...the Dew is Still on the Roses”




In The Garden

 "I come to the garden alone⁠

while the dew is still on the roses,⁠

and the voice I hear⁠

falling on my ear,⁠

the Son of God discloses.⁠

And He walks with me⁠

and He talks with me.⁠

And He tells me I am His own;⁠

And the joy we share as we tarry there⁠

none other has⁠ ever known.

He speaks, and the sound of His voice⁠

Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,⁠

And the melody that He gave to me⁠

Within my heart is ringing.” ⁠

Lyrics by C. Austin Miles

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Shores Park - Matanzas River

 


Do not be deceased:  God cannot be mocked.  A man reaps what he sows.  The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.  Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.  Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

Galatians 6:7-10 NIV


Don't Look Back!


 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying 'Hurry!  Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished."

When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them.  As soon as they had brought them out one of them said, "Flee for your lives!  Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain!  Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!"

But Lot said to them, "No, my lords, please!  Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life.  But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.   Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small.  Le me flee to it--it is very small, isn't it?  then my life will be spared."

He said to him, "Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.  But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it."  (that is why the town was called Zoar.)

By the tie Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.  then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah--from the LORD out of heavens.  Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities--and also the vegetation in the land.  But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:15-22 NIV