Renaissance Park Chattanooga, Tennessee - 20/20 Vision

The eye is the lamp of the body.  So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

Matthew 6:22 NRSV

Thought for the Day:  When the way forward is unclear, God can open my eyes to hope.
 

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee River - The Road Ahead

Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.

Proverbs 4:25 NIV

Thought for the Day:  God is always looking out for my best interests.
 

The One Who Sees Me

 

She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her:  “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”

Genesis 16:13 NIV

Little River - Smokey Mountains

 

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he

neither ate bread nor drank water.  And He wrote on the

tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Exodus 34:28 NKJV

Cades Cove - "I am the Way and the Truth"

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.  If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.  From now on, you do know him and have seen him."

Philip said, "Lord show us the Father and that will be enough for us."

Jesus answered:  "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time?  Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.  How can you say, 'Show us the Father?'  Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?  The words I say to you are not just my own.  Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.  Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.  I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing.  He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.  And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.   You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

John 14:9-13 NIV

Appalachian Foothills

He who dwells in the shelter

of the Most High

will rest in the shadow of

the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, "He 

is my refuge and my fortress,

my God, in whom I trust.

Psalm 91:1-2

If you make the Most High 

your dwelling--

even the LORD, who is my 

refuge--

then no harm will befall you,

no disaster will come near your tent.

For he will command his 

angels concerning you 

to guard you in all your ways;

they will lift you up in their hands,

so that you will not strike

your foot against a stone.

You will tread upon the lion 

and the cobra;

you will trample the great 

lion and the serpent.

"Because he loves me," 

says the LORD, 

"I will rescue him;

I will protect him, for he

acknowledges my name.

He will call upon me, and I

will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble,

I will deliver him and honor him.

With long life will I satisfy him

and show him my salvation."

Psalm 91:9-16 NIV

Hope Smiles

 

"Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Follow the Light

 

"Follow the light unflinchingly."

~J.R.R. Tolkien

Collect Moments

 

Collect Moments ~ Not Things

The Mountains are Calling

 

"The mountains are calling, and I must go."

~John Muir

Lofty Mountain Tops

 "Doubly happy is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach."

~John Muir

To Ease Another's Heartache

 

"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."

~Abraham Lincoln

Attraction of Lonely Freedom

 

"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom."  

~President Theodore Roosevelt

Listen to the Forest

 

Listen to the Silence of Nature

 Listen to the Silence of Nature and Hear your inner voice.

Let Nature's Peace Flow

 Let nature's peace flow into you like sunshine flows into trees.

Cades Cove Loop

 

Misty Morn Cades Cove Mountains

 

Scenes from Little River Road

 

English Mountain

 

In the fall we did a scenic backroad drive to English Mountain located in the western foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.   The fall leaves were just beginning to show their magnificent colors.