Autumn is in the Air!

-internet t-shirt

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There is a beauty in trusting the LORD God Almighty.

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Time passes by too quickly...

 -Kinsman

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The seasons change- seemingly too often.  Autumn has taken over the Summer we loved. 

Now the corn is being harvested with the soybeans waiting to be next. Soon the fields will be empty with room for the winds to gather more speed.

Precious friends have died- leaving loving families to grieve them. Memories of the joys and loves which they shared. Photos are brought out with their love for each other shone throughout. Tears continue until they meet again in Glory.

It feels like a story which is coming to an end. We have nearly four months to the end of this year, but time seems to "rush" by somehow.

I'm thankful for kindnesses people have shown and the words of love which are shared together.  The LORD has been gracious to love us so and then we can love others.

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"My Home is God Himself"; Christ brought me there.

I placed myself within His mighty arms;

He took me up, and safe from all alarms

He bore me "where no foot but His has trod,"

Within the holiest at Home with God,

And had me dwell in Him, rejoicing there.

O Holy Place! O Home divinely fair!

And we, God's little ones, abiding there.

"My Home is God Himself" it was not so!

A long, long road I traveled night and day,

And sought to find within myself some way.

Nothing I did or felt could bring me near.

Self-effort failed, and I was filled with fear,

And then I found Christ was the only way,

That I must come to Him, and in Him stay,

And God had told me so.

And now "my Home is God," and sheltered there,

God meets the trials of my earthly life,

God compasses me round from storm and strife,

God takes the burden of my daily care.

O Wondrous Place! O Home divinely fair!

And I, God's little one, safe hidden there.

Lord, as I dwell in You and You in me,

So make me dead to everything but Thee;

That as I rest within my Home most fair,

My soul may evermore and only see

My God in everything and everywhere;

My Home is God.

-unknown

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Winter Turns to Spring

-Chick-a-Dee: Stays all Winter

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Our COLD last week now turns into a new week something like Spring!

Too early for us!

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Matthew 6:26

..."Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?"...

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Joy is in Its Season

Autumn is such a lovely month.

All the harvests, all the changing of colors, the fresh clean air, and all the memories of families throughout the years.

All the baking, the autumn recipe aromas, the clearing out of the yards, and the cleaning of the house to decorate for autumn. The pumpkins from your garden which surprise you, and the placing of them on the porch.

All the get togethers with friends, specials church suppers, autumn drives to see the trees, and field trips with other seniors...

Autumn is Joy in Its Season!

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People tend to say: "The Mid-west is so Flat!"

-Autumn in the Mid-West USA

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This is a bike trail UP a high slope!

No, the mid-west is not all flat.

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Autumn in Glen Lyon, Scotland

-Scotland, FB 

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Autumn at Highclear

-FB photo

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Still..not as beautiful as the Mid-West, USA!  :o) 

 

Living by Our Own Time

-PLUGGERS

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A Beautiful Season

 -Internet picture

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Autumn is here, but no scarves as of yet

 

Our Autumn Slips By Us So Very Fast

High winds and cold temperatures brought our beautiful Autumn to a close this last week, but we can still remember the vivid colors and warm days.

Thank you, LORD, for Your creation...

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

"There is an appointed time for everything. 

And there is a time for every event under heaven—

A time to give birth and a time to die;

A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

A time to kill and a time to heal;

A time to tear down and a time to build up.

A time to weep and a time to laugh;

A time to mourn and a time to dance.

A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;

A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.

A time to search and a time to give up as lost;

A time to keep and a time to throw away.

A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;

A time to be silent and a time to speak.

A time to love and a time to hate;

A time for war and a time for peace."...

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Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall...Snoopy Style

 

Enjoy Your Autumn!

Enjoy this new season, and humbly pray for the persecuted...LORD, have mercy...hear our cry...
 

Too Pretty to Eat!

 -fancyflours

Autumn Cookies!

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A Gorgeous Summer is Waning

 ~Kinsman Gardens

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

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The First Week of Spring!

 

Memories which continue to encourage me

Every season brings happy memories of my sweet mother.

Bakings, makings, decoratings, moving furniture...to sitting and enjoying the breezes and listening to the wind through the pines.

So many things remind me of her. I lost her too soon -at age 67- but every thing about her comes out in me. 

The homemaking things I love to do - she taught me to do them.

The way she loved on each of us, family, and friends is instilled in me.

I will never cook as well as she did, but I sure can bake her cookies just as well!

I love to clean up the house after a season, and rearrange the furniture which still surprises everyone!

I love to make and create sewing, crocheting, crafts, miniatures...she saw this in me as a little one. I still have embroidery she had me doing when I was so young, and the doll house she bought at a moving sale which she eventually gave to me at age 5....

I cannot separate her from whom I became and I didn't realize this until she was with the LORD.  I am so very thankful for all of what my mother gave in me.

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"Winter's almost gone, Spring is coming on..."

 We always think:

"that's the last snow!"

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