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"Spacious Skies"

Friday, November 18, 2022

Bulow Creek, Flagler Beach - "In Wisdom You have Made Them All"



 O LORD, how manifold are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all.
The earth is full of Your possessions--
This great and wide sea,
In which are innumerable teeming things,
Living things both small and great.

Psalm 104:24-25 NIV

Port Crescent State Park, Michigan - "Who Walks on the Wings of the Wind"



O LORD my God, You are very great:
You are clothed with honor and majesty,
Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.

 He lays the beams of His
upper chambers in the waters,
Who makes the clouds His chariot,
Who walks on the wings of the wind,
Who makes His angels spirits,
His ministers a flame of fire.

Psalm 104:1-4 NIV

Bulow Plantation ruins Historic State Park - "One Day is as a Thousand Years"




 But, beloved, do not forget
this one thing, that with the Lord
one day is as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slack concerning
His promise, as some count 
slackness, but is longsuffering
toward us, not willing
that any should perish but that
all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:8-9 NIV

Cascade Falls, Rocky Mountains National Park - "Lord of Heaven and Earth"





 God who made the world and everything in it, 
since He is Lord of heaven and earth, 
does not dwell in temples made with hands.

Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, 
as though He needed anything, since 
He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

Acts 17:24-25 NIV

Creekview Trail, Princess Place Preserve - "You have made Summer and Winter"


 



You broke open the fountain and the flood; 
You dried up mighty rivers.
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have prepared the light and the sun,
You have set all the borders of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.

Psalm 74:15-17 NIV

Hominy Branch Trail, Princess Place Preserve - "In the Shadow of the Almighty"


 He who dwells 
in the shelter of the
Most High
will rest in the shadow
of the Almighty.

Psalm 91:1 

Sunday, November 13, 2022

Pointe Aux Barque Lighthouse - "Nothing will Separated Us from the Love of Christ"




 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  As it is written:

"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35-39 NIV


F.D. Roosevelt State Park, Pine Mountain Georgia - "Kindness is Everything"



 Jesus said, "I was hungry and you gave me food to eat.  I was thirsty and you gave me a drink.  I was a stranger and you welcomed me.  I was naked and you gave me clothes to wear.  I was sick and you took care of me.  I was in prison and you visited me."

Matthew 25:35-36 CEB

Providence Canyon State Park, Lumpkin Georgia - "Never Give Up'"





 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

James 1:2-3 NIV

Princess Place Preserve - Forgiveness: "Seventy-Seven Times"


 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me?  Up to seven times?"  Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times."

Matthew 18:21 NIV

East Inlet Trail, Rocky Mountains - "Fixing our eyes on Jesus"


 

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.  And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.  For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lost heart.

Hebrews 12:1-3 NIV

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)

Monday, November 7, 2022

Blood Mountain Wilderness - “Better is One Day in your Courts than a Thousand Elsewhere”



Better is one day in your courts
    than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
    the Lord bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
    from those whose walk is blameless.

Psalm 84:10-11

Amicalola Falls State Park - “Be Transformed by the Renewing of your Mind”


 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Pikes Peak Summit - "How Beautiful on the Mountains"

 







How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

Isaiah 52:7

Adams Falls - "He changes Times and Seasons"

 



He changes times and seasons;
he deposes kings and raises up others.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning.

Daniel 2:21 

Trail Ridge Road, Rocky Mountains - "I Form Light and Create Darkness"


 


I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster;
I, the LORD, do all these things.

Isaiah 45:7 

East Inlet Trail - "Itching Ears"



 

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.  Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.  They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn to myths.

2 Timothy 4:3-4


Lake Granby, Colorado - "Remember the Former Things"




Remember the former things, those of long ago;
    I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is none like me.
    I make known the end from the beginning,
    from ancient times; what is still to come.
I say, 'My purpose will stand,
    and I will do all that I please."

Isaiah 46:9-10 

Rocky Mountains National Park - "Unfailing Love"






"Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 54:10  NIV
 

Colorado River and River Run Trail - "My Eyes are Fixed on You"


 But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge--do not give me over to death.

Psalm 141:8 NIV