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Friday quote and picture:
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
-- Winston Churchill
Low Lying Mist Over River Spey, Strathspey, Scotland
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
-- Winston Churchill
Low Lying Mist Over River Spey, Strathspey, Scotland
March 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Friday quote and picture:
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
-- Winston Churchill
Low Lying Mist Over River Spey, Strathspey, Scotland
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
-- Winston Churchill
Low Lying Mist Over River Spey, Strathspey, Scotland
Tuesday quote and picture:
A hero is someone who does something for someone else at personal sacrifice.
-- Rick Warren
Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
A hero is someone who does something for someone else at personal sacrifice.
-- Rick Warren
Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
March 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Tuesday quote and picture:
A hero is someone who does something for someone else at personal sacrifice.
-- Rick Warren
Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
A hero is someone who does something for someone else at personal sacrifice.
-- Rick Warren
Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
* Following Jesus is less like math and more like white water rafting.
* It’s less like writing down the right answers to a test and more like trusting yourself into the hands of a doctor.
* It’s less like standing on concrete and more like bungee jumping.
-- Michael Spencer
* It’s less like writing down the right answers to a test and more like trusting yourself into the hands of a doctor.
* It’s less like standing on concrete and more like bungee jumping.
-- Michael Spencer
March 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
* Following Jesus is less like math and more like white water rafting.
* It’s less like writing down the right answers to a test and more like trusting yourself into the hands of a doctor.
* It’s less like standing on concrete and more like bungee jumping.
-- Michael Spencer
* It’s less like writing down the right answers to a test and more like trusting yourself into the hands of a doctor.
* It’s less like standing on concrete and more like bungee jumping.
-- Michael Spencer
Friday quote and picture:
Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God's business.
-- Michael J. Fox
This picture is by either Jim Yelvinton or perhaps his son, Scott Yelvington, taken in Finland last year.
Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God's business.
-- Michael J. Fox
This picture is by either Jim Yelvinton or perhaps his son, Scott Yelvington, taken in Finland last year.
March 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Friday quote and picture:
Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God's business.
-- Michael J. Fox
This picture is by either Jim Yelvinton or perhaps his son, Scott Yelvington, taken in Finland last year.
Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God's business.
-- Michael J. Fox
This picture is by either Jim Yelvinton or perhaps his son, Scott Yelvington, taken in Finland last year.
Wednesday winter picture and quotation:
Politics and crime: they are the same thing.
-- Michael Corleone, Godfather part III
Politics and crime: they are the same thing.
-- Michael Corleone, Godfather part III
March 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Wednesday winter picture and quotation:
Politics and crime: they are the same thing.
-- Michael Corleone, Godfather part III
Politics and crime: they are the same thing.
-- Michael Corleone, Godfather part III
Tuesday quote and winter picture:
Every storm runs out of rain.
-- Maya Angelou
Every storm runs out of rain.
-- Maya Angelou
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Tuesday quote and winter picture:
Every storm runs out of rain.
-- Maya Angelou
Every storm runs out of rain.
-- Maya Angelou
Monday quote and winter picture:
Love pulls up a chair and listens.
-- Micah J. Murray
Love pulls up a chair and listens.
-- Micah J. Murray
March 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Monday quote and winter picture:
Love pulls up a chair and listens.
-- Micah J. Murray
Love pulls up a chair and listens.
-- Micah J. Murray
Sunday picture and quotation:
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
-- Michael Crichton
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
-- Michael Crichton
March 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Sunday picture and quotation:
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
-- Michael Crichton
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
-- Michael Crichton
Thursday quote and winter picture:
The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
-- Mencius
The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
-- Mencius
March 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thursday quote and winter picture:
The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
-- Mencius
The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
-- Mencius
Sunday quote won't fit again, but here's a picture:
March 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Sunday quote won't fit again, but here's a picture:
Today's quote will not fit once again so here is the picture:
Rochester, NH
Rochester, NH
March 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today's quote will not fit once again so here is the picture:
Rochester, NH
Rochester, NH
Friday quote and picture:
I believe in God, but do I believe in God-in-me?
I believe in God in heaven, but do I believe in God-on-earth?
I believe in God out there, but do I believe in God-with-us?
-- Meister Eckhart
I believe in God, but do I believe in God-in-me?
I believe in God in heaven, but do I believe in God-on-earth?
I believe in God out there, but do I believe in God-with-us?
-- Meister Eckhart
February 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Friday quote and picture:
I believe in God, but do I believe in God-in-me?
I believe in God in heaven, but do I believe in God-on-earth?
I believe in God out there, but do I believe in God-with-us?
-- Meister Eckhart
I believe in God, but do I believe in God-in-me?
I believe in God in heaven, but do I believe in God-on-earth?
I believe in God out there, but do I believe in God-with-us?
-- Meister Eckhart
Thursday quote and winter picture (another great picture from. my friend Nathan Deremer):
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.
-- M. C. Escher
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.
-- M. C. Escher
February 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thursday quote and winter picture (another great picture from. my friend Nathan Deremer):
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.
-- M. C. Escher
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.
-- M. C. Escher
Wednesday quote and winter picture:
Each day and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
-- May Sarton
Each day and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
-- May Sarton
February 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Wednesday quote and winter picture:
Each day and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
-- May Sarton
Each day and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
-- May Sarton
Tuesday quote and winter picture;
Poetry will help you to find out who you are inside yourself. If you really want to be at the top of your form, know who you are.
-- Maya Angelou
Poetry will help you to find out who you are inside yourself. If you really want to be at the top of your form, know who you are.
-- Maya Angelou
February 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Tuesday quote and winter picture;
Poetry will help you to find out who you are inside yourself. If you really want to be at the top of your form, know who you are.
-- Maya Angelou
Poetry will help you to find out who you are inside yourself. If you really want to be at the top of your form, know who you are.
-- Maya Angelou
Monday quote and winter picture:
Praying...is the most critical activity we are capable of, for when we pray, we are never satisfied with the world of here and now and are constantly striving to realize the new world, the first glimmers of which we have already seen.
-- Henri Nouwen
Praying...is the most critical activity we are capable of, for when we pray, we are never satisfied with the world of here and now and are constantly striving to realize the new world, the first glimmers of which we have already seen.
-- Henri Nouwen
February 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Monday quote and winter picture:
Praying...is the most critical activity we are capable of, for when we pray, we are never satisfied with the world of here and now and are constantly striving to realize the new world, the first glimmers of which we have already seen.
-- Henri Nouwen
Praying...is the most critical activity we are capable of, for when we pray, we are never satisfied with the world of here and now and are constantly striving to realize the new world, the first glimmers of which we have already seen.
-- Henri Nouwen
Saturday quote and winter picture:
When the journey is too much, when we’re down for the count, Jesus does not whip us into submission. He tends to our wounds.
-- Matt Johnson
When the journey is too much, when we’re down for the count, Jesus does not whip us into submission. He tends to our wounds.
-- Matt Johnson
February 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Saturday quote and winter picture:
When the journey is too much, when we’re down for the count, Jesus does not whip us into submission. He tends to our wounds.
-- Matt Johnson
When the journey is too much, when we’re down for the count, Jesus does not whip us into submission. He tends to our wounds.
-- Matt Johnson
Once again my quote for today will not fit into 300 characters. You can find it on my Facebook feed.
Friday winter picture:
Friday winter picture:
February 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Once again my quote for today will not fit into 300 characters. You can find it on my Facebook feed.
Friday winter picture:
Friday winter picture:
Wednesday quote and winter picture:
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
-- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
-- Mary Anne Radmacher
February 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Wednesday quote and winter picture:
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
-- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
-- Mary Anne Radmacher
Monday picture (the quotation is once again, too long for Bluesky)
February 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Monday picture (the quotation is once again, too long for Bluesky)
Sunday quote and picture:
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Glacier Near Seward, Alaska
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Glacier Near Seward, Alaska
February 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Sunday quote and picture:
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Glacier Near Seward, Alaska
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Glacier Near Seward, Alaska
Saturday picture and quote:
For Christ at the last day will not ask how much you have prayed, fasted, pilgrimaged, done this or that for yourself, but how much good you have done to others, even the very least.
-- Martin Luther, A Treatise on Good Works
Aurora Borealis, Lapland, Finland
For Christ at the last day will not ask how much you have prayed, fasted, pilgrimaged, done this or that for yourself, but how much good you have done to others, even the very least.
-- Martin Luther, A Treatise on Good Works
Aurora Borealis, Lapland, Finland
February 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Saturday picture and quote:
For Christ at the last day will not ask how much you have prayed, fasted, pilgrimaged, done this or that for yourself, but how much good you have done to others, even the very least.
-- Martin Luther, A Treatise on Good Works
Aurora Borealis, Lapland, Finland
For Christ at the last day will not ask how much you have prayed, fasted, pilgrimaged, done this or that for yourself, but how much good you have done to others, even the very least.
-- Martin Luther, A Treatise on Good Works
Aurora Borealis, Lapland, Finland
Friday quote and picture:
A person who…does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.
-- Martin Luther
A person who…does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.
-- Martin Luther
February 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Friday quote and picture:
A person who…does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.
-- Martin Luther
A person who…does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.
-- Martin Luther
Not righteousness but growth in righteousness,
not health but healing,
not being but becoming,
not rest but exercise.
We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.
The process is not yet finished but is going on.
This is not the end but it is the road.
-- Martin Luther
not health but healing,
not being but becoming,
not rest but exercise.
We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.
The process is not yet finished but is going on.
This is not the end but it is the road.
-- Martin Luther
February 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Not righteousness but growth in righteousness,
not health but healing,
not being but becoming,
not rest but exercise.
We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.
The process is not yet finished but is going on.
This is not the end but it is the road.
-- Martin Luther
not health but healing,
not being but becoming,
not rest but exercise.
We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.
The process is not yet finished but is going on.
This is not the end but it is the road.
-- Martin Luther
Wednesday winter picture and a quote:
Be content to seem what you really are.
-- Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)
Be content to seem what you really are.
-- Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)
February 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Wednesday winter picture and a quote:
Be content to seem what you really are.
-- Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)
Be content to seem what you really are.
-- Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)