God is So Awesome!

He ALWAYS, COMES THROUGH,

you know more and more, I don't CARE what anyone says, God is Truly AWESOME! The World might be horrid,

people might be cruel

families might be dysfunctional

but GOD

JESUS

is FAITHFUL, TRUE, PATIENT, KIND, UNDERSTANDING,

when other's let you down and they Will as so will YOU let other's down, ain't human nature grand? :( God doesn't just walk off and toss you aside, oh no, He waits, and Waits, and Waits, and Patiently woos us and reminds us and hints at us and well really He sort of goes HEY, YOU, YOU HOO, OVER HERE, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT THERE, IN YOUR SLEEP, IN YOUR WAKING HOURS, I'M RIGHT HERE, ARE YOU LISTENING?

He isn't the one hard of hearing, WE ARE! Anyway...so Spring is here and Summer almost around the corner and I'm having a discourse with Lord about those little things in childhood that Then, had a lot of meaning, they Still do in fact but you see so many once they become Adult and So Knowing [Ha!] well, they take these things with a grain of salt. Anyhow,

so I'm pondering all the cool things like June Bugs, why Is it they are drawn to light again? Funny how we forget those things, and so I look it up and did you know they are attracted to Moonlight? So are Moths. So, then I look at another info site [on bugs] about lightening bugs. I have not seen lightening bugs, NOT that I recall, maybe this year. I have seen 'bats' though, Creepy, they make the eeriest sounds, circling around in the dusk of evening...wouldn't be too upset if I never saw them again. But well, nature is just amazing in of herself and God is really, if you THINK about it, GENIUS, seriously so I'm pondering and reading up on Bugs today, and earlier this morning and through out the week I have been working on some things with God about negativity,

and in looking at a sight on bugs, I stumbled onto this, and it is just well, I just had to post it.

http://www.tomslighthouse.net/lighthse/foot17.htm#anchor002

So I am going to close, with some Cool Bug sites, one from this man's site [awesome site btw] on Lightening Bugs, which I thought was way uplifting because for those of us who Still are a 'child' at heart [maybe more than heart, but anymore, I am thinking, kind of Like it that way, losing the cyncisms is well, kind of Nice], the little things in nature are really, their own Magical World. So--since I am not good at Writing on these things...something I don't write about really, I'd rather show it in pictures, what I see about God's Kingdom, in Nature.

Starting with A BUG'S VIEW OF THE BUG UNIVERSE CREATED BY OUR LORD

Couldn't resist this one, below,

Hilarious, now That's something my brother would have done as a kid, ROFL

now HOW ABOUT, SOME OF THE MORE 'UNIQUE' WHAT YOU DON'T SEE OFTEN...FROM FOREIGN BUGS TO THE EXTRA-ORDINARY...THE AMAZING HANDIWORK OF OUR LORD

even the smallest Creatures, God created the 'stars' for Them, Nightlights

Cave glow worms

and below, these little guys really Do light up their 'female's' Fire, LOL, [they light up for each other, a mating ritual, God thinks of Everything, lol--funny thing is majority of men we hear about do more to PUT out a woman's fire, not Light it, ROFL, ok ok I know NOT nice, but couldn't resist that one, sorry guys, the BUGS got you beat on that one!  Things we can learn from a bug or two eh?

Like, check how Romantic these bugs are...God even provides the perfect uh, setting, LOL...

and it don't Cost them no $150.00 a Night either NOR did this bug have to 'wait' for a Birthday to put out the extra effort, and they say Bugs have smaller brains????!  [and mankind thinks they can Beat God in the Love department, Yea Right?  Like Whatever!!!]

And who'd have thought, God even has a Sense of Humor [this is a new one for me, I"ve seen a lot of Weird things but this was a first]...God, even created a Spit Bug, check This out, [location she says NW Washington]

Now, let's take a trip around the World shall we, starting with Philippines,
"This argiope spider belongs to a family with members around the world, many of which build webs with the type of white "stabilimentum" which you see here, whose purpose might be to help birds and other animals to see the web, and so avoid damaging it."

Russia, unidentified flying object, lol, no, unidentified Russian DragonFly

Indonesia, now She knows just the Right material to make the perfect canopy bed that is water resistant even, site says:

"They're also some of the most beautiful of spiders with attractive, often metallic colors, like this tiny female guarding her eggs.   They have great personalities, too - the two large main eyes which are a distinguishing feature of the family make these spiders look more engaging, and unlike almost all other spiders they'll actually turn and look at you.   If they decide you're a threat then they will often move to the underside of the leaf they're on, otherwise they'll continue about their business, stopping from time to time to check that you're not doing anything nefarious."


Belize, NO, this isn't plated like baby shoes, nor has it crossed paths with Midas, LOL.  This is actually a real Bug, Amazing, God even turned some 'bugs' into Jewels, though probably not a wise idea trying to wear one as a ring [and NO don't even Think about it, we have damaged Enough of Mother Earth and her animals for garments and hats, etc] 
A gold-colored darkling beetle

Malaysia, hmmmm, wonder why insects never have chiropractor bills?  [looper caterpillar, butterfly]

Malaysia

[baldy legs say I need a shave say What?  You only Wish you had legs as nice as mine] 

 Thailand, and you ladies think You have the monopoly on the Bee Hive Hair, Ha, God gave me one heck of a hair do, just Check out this hive? 
"This is one of the tiger moth species, a family which is recognizable by the tufts of hair on the caterpillars' backs, a feature which gives them the alternative family name of tussock moth".

The photos of the Foreign bugs are from http://www.richard-seaman.com/Arthropods/index.html

His site is Awesome btw, check it out, for a lot more pics, found it couple of years ago, some amazing photographs.  I do believe the other photos if you click on them will take you Right the the blog/web site they are from [I'll check to be sure].

More on the nature series tomorrow and this week,

Peace,

Jane

Shall I look to the Mountains and the High Places, for Salvation?

"Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel."  Jer 3:23

IRELAND--CELTS
http://www.europe-travel-guides.com/ireland-travel-guides.html

IRELAND-CELTS

http://aseekingspirit.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/

ANCIENT SAMARIA, TODAY'S PALESTINE

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article443

HIGH PLACE SAMARIA, 

Thttp://www.livius.org/saa-san/samaria/samarians.htm

EASTER ISLAND

http://rachelincolombia.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/what-to-make-of-the-nazcas-folly/

PERU

http://communications.uml.edu/sunrise/?m=20080211

ISHTAR'S GATE, IRAQ

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1816142

Prayer,

Oh Lord God, they say I need a Goddess, they say that you're a Man God, yet you say, 

Hosea 11:9... "I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to
destroy Ephraim; (the ten tribe House of Israel) for I am God and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee",

they say you are a Patriarch of blood and violence, yet you say, 

Genesis 6: 5-6  And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 

Genesis 6: 11-13     

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 

They say Lord God that you condemn WOMAN, but You say:  John 8: 3-12

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 

Oh Lord, lol,


TO YOU, MY HEART, MAY IT BE, THE HIGH PLACE, ALWAYS, FOR YOU... ;)

THIS SONG, SAYS IT ALL, DEDICATED TO MY LORD, WHO BROUGHT COLOR TO MY LIFE!

Have a Grateful Thanksgiving and a Reflective Day of Mourning

You might be wondering, what a 'reflective day of mourning' means, on a day that we know typically as the American celebration of Thanksgiving. Well, the Native American Indians know this day to be their 'national day of mourning', mourning for the genocide in part of so many of their people's [ancestors and the crimes still continue today, in Central America and in South Americas, and many in America are still hunted down like animals, women in particular, with impunity in several states and in Canada.]

For me personally, this day is one of thanks, but one of sadness too, and this is because there were several years [off and on] that I spent this day, with my daughter, once while pregnant, as a Homeless [and working mind you] Woman. I have not forgotten, and I think often that I am not doing enough to help, the thousands that I know are still homeless and the numbers are growing. I STILL to this day, suffer from a form of post-traumatic stress, I say a form...its not as severe as lets say, one who suffers ptsd from war, but there is the living with survivor guilt and the constant fear and insecurity that is often paralyzing...being 'homeless' and pregnant with child with another small child, with no help, in a strange city, is in itself, traumatic....I haven't forgotten

the 'shame', that part is the hardest and it had a lot to do with Why I did get involved with radical politics. It was a BRUTAL EYE AWAKENING....having lived in a rural small conservative Bible Belt town, having heard the usual American 'positive' Disney World Christianity, and then seeing, the REALITY, what the streets is like, the discrimination and prejudice [and particularly from so called religious folk and yea, some leftist folk too], and seeing life, from the perspective of 'looking up from the gutter' rather than looking at it from the sides [or the top],

well, it does something to you, and you are

NEVER, THE SAME AGAIN.

You can't go back to how it used to be, because even if you do, you don't forget...what it is, what the 'being on the inside' of the 'outside' is, the underground, as we street people call it. To be truly 'invisible' and 'without value' in a society where value is placed on 'the goods one possesses'. That includes, moral value.

And it might be for this reason, that I today, think on the millions in our world, who do not have homes and worse, who do not have hope. Those who wake up to bombs and rapes and torture and abuse. Those who are born only to cry in a world that has no sympathy for their pain, no God for them...not one they hear about that is,

and as I cook today, in our mobile with my children and husband, listening to the Christian radio, I can't help but think,

how surreal this all is to me, and how, I don't really 'deserve' it because I haven't lived a sinless or righteous life, and how unfair it is, really,
that here I am, with food, shelter, family, safety,

and for millions, they will only know these things as a 'dream'.

And I reflect on the Words of Jesus, when he said, 'woe to you who are rich now, woe to you who are full now and do not hunger',

and these words haunt me. I am not rich according to American standards [and in fact am in lifetime of debt] but, as for the rest of the world, I am stinking rich.

Today, I reflect, that I'm not happy anymore, just writing about it, this has been in fact, haunting me for some time [for years actually], I want to do more,

just, can't, right now, THOUGH I am working to Change that so that I can. But the desire doesn't go away, I think of the girls in Afghanistan and the people in prisons in Iran and the Christian women raped and shot for feeding their kids in North Korea and I think...

there Has to be more to life than this, to this feasting and celebrating...there just has to be.

And for me, you see, I have no excuse, because I know, those feelings of helplessness, but even then, there was 'hope'. For millions, there isn't,

but WE can be their hope, can't we? Aren't WE, supposed to be the light for them in this dark world? Isn't that,

what Christianity, is really all about?

So, friends, today, I say, when we gather round the meals, when we give Thanks to our Lord for His blessings, that WE also, take time, to Reflect, for those, who today,

MOURN.

And that, we walk away today...wake up tomorrow, with a decision, to LIVE OUT, what Christ commanded...

to give water, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to release the captives, to visit the prisoner and to comfort the broken hearted,

to bring healing to our broken world. And to not just to those near us, but to those, far away, that they too,

can one day, reflect, that somewhere, someone saw them, someone heard God's calling, and they were not invisible anymore, and that yes, there is

HOPE.

Most of all, there is

LOVE.

They won't see, if we 'keep our security' and do not, lose our lives, for the Lord and the Gospel. And when we do, and a soul without hope is saved,
there is another celebration of Thanksgiving,

the angels around the throne of God, who Rejoice, who give Thanks, that we, obey the great commission we were given, in whatever call He has called us.

and that, I feel, is what Thanksgiving, is really, about.

Love, Peace to you all today,

Jane