This will be the last email until the week of Sept 29th since Barb and I will be away on a road trip visiting family and friends. Some of them are suffering from serious health problems so we would like to visit them one more time, here on earth. However, praise the Lord very many are Christians and we will meet them in Heaven some day. I hope you have the same hope for yourself and your family and friends.
We watched some informational type TV programs this week where folks made some quotes that I thought were worth sharing.
One program was marveling at the beauty along the pacific coast in California, in spite of a number of areas that are falling into the ocean due to storms and erosion.
A visitor was quoted who said “If you don’t believe in God’s creation after traveling the California coast you’ve missed the beauty” This could be said of any coastal area around the world. We’ve seen many in person and, of course, on travel shows on TV.
Out of 360 applicants to produce a sculpture for a First World War memorial, designer Joe Weishaar & sculptor Sabin Howard won the bid. When Howard, the sculptor, was asked what he hoped visitors to the memorial a century from now would experience, Howard replied “I want the visitor 100 years from now to have the same feeling that I had when I went to go see the statue of David when I was 25. We are made in God’s image. That sculpture is made in God’s image. So is mine. It’s a simple thing.”
Picasso was quoted as saying. “The elephant is evidence that God is an Artist.”
These folks all see God in the world around them. What do you see?
Isaiah 45:12
I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, My hands stretched out the heavens. And all their host I have commanded.
Genesis 1:1 & 25
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
………………………And God saw that it was good.
The beauty of God’s handiwork is all around us. How can man ignore God? Only the disbelievers can tell us that!
Barb & I will travel over the Coquihalla highway, through the Okanagan (the northern desert), through the Rockies and across the prairies. We will see our God in everything. The valleys, the mountains, the clouds and the prairies. Not to mention the birds, animals and certainly all our friends and family we visit along the way. We are blessed beyond words by where we live and the freedoms we have. Please be thankful for the blessings God has bestowed on us all.
One of Doug’s favorite hymns which has been sung in churches around the world is
Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow verse 1. Praise God from whom all blessings flow Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him, above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son , and Holy Ghost.
