weekly photo challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love

One of the saddest things about love is when you have to die for it.  Why does anyone have to die for love?  That defeats the purpose of love.  We all need to start living for love and not allowing anyone or anything to make us quit, slow us down or stop us!  We need to make sure that no one has to die for love again.  Too many soldiers and men of peace have died since Jesus gave his life as a sacrifice over 2000 years ago.  Too many lives are ended by those who have no hope or peace in their hearts.  Those who don’t know what love is.  Jesus gave us the knowledge that we truly can do anything if we have enough faith.  He told us that if we really love him, we will keep his commandment of loving one another.  If it wasn’t hard to do, it wouldn’t have to be a commandment, but it can be done.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination

One illuminated window in an old house in Toronto.
One illuminated window in an old house in Toronto.
Saw this illuminated cross on a garage when taking a walk.
Saw this illuminated cross on a garage when taking a walk.
Detroit at twilight. You can see part of the Ambassador Bridge.
Detroit at twilight. You can see part of the Ambassador Bridge.
Tiny twinkling lights in the distance appear much larger in this garden shot.
Tiny twinkling lights in the distance appear much larger in this garden shot.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Resolved

I am resolved to keep moving forward even though I am tempted to give up, quit or otherwise be very scared and lazy.

I am resolved to post more information to help people with their daily lives.

I am resolved to finally market my self-published tax self-help book this year.

I am resolved to finding a permanent home this year to nest until I really get to go home. 

Even though I can't see the finish line, I will just keep trucken'!
Even though I can’t see the finish line, I will just keep trucken’!
First attempt to refinish table
French toast with Pecan cinnamon bread
Early peas
Turkey, brocolli & Lowfat Alfredo sauce
After the Crucifixion in Lenawee County
Fall motif made with glass plate, silk flowers and tissue paper
Honorable Mention in Spring art show 2012
Whole wheat pasta and some kind of homemade sauce
Early spring rose branches
Spring rain
Misty winter morning
First violets
Baptism of my great nephew
Spring walk
One of many Instructables in 2012 posted on Instructables.com
Photo transfer on white Organza
Black-eyed Susans
Fresh produce
Bread n’ wine
Monarch on my Butterfly Bush
Lace backed collage of my German ancestors
Broken toilet handle spring 2012
printing on used dryer sheets
Lovely Daylilies
Finally spring
Neighborhood pool
First peony
Apron and wine sack
Bottle & stamp necklace
Accent transfer and thread painted, unfinished
Patching up jeans
Short cape soon to be on etsy
Various types of fabric jewelry
Asian theme apron
Tea stained apron
First try at matching pot holders
Crazy skull heads from air clay
Second attempt with fall decor
Apple from the cider mill
Carrot and squash soup with turkey on whole wheat & avocado
Crappachino
Cozy teatime
Team Robin for Robin Roberts of Good Morning America
Winter sunshine
Fall picture transfered to muslin, lined with lace pieces and puff painted
Fall 2012
Fall leaves
Christmas valance from scrap fabrics
Found my dollar store elf sneaking wine again
Hollowed out fruit with allspice for natural holiday air freshener
Neighbor gave me the cutest miniature gingerbread house
Everyone has a cousin Eddie

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

More than anything, I am thankful for the birth of the Christ.

I am thankful and grateful for his great sacrifice and words of truth that have led millions to salvation and grace.  I am thankful to God who showed His love by the sacrifice of His Son in the great hopes that people would listen and follow the commandment to love one another, the only hope for our world.  Jesus was humble and lived a simple life.  He lived to teach and help others, and taught us that a life spent in accumulating wealth and possessions was not just foolish, but wrong.  He taught us to spend our lives in the service of others.  He taught that true love is not a warm fuzzy feeling, but an act of great sacrifice, which explains why most marriages never work.  He taught us to love and pray for our enemies, which does not mean to go give them a big hug, but to stop vengeful acts that bring you down to their level or below.  He told us to forgive those that don’t deserve it and this does not mean you allow someone to do wrong, but if they truly repent, you allow them back into your life or society without reproach.

I am thankful that when I feel alone or unloved Jesus told me to remember that when the world hated you that it hated him first.  The knowledge that I am indeed in good company, comforts me greatly.  Thank you God, in the name of Jesus, for another day.