A Quiet Heart…

A departure from my usual Wordless Wednesdays. 
But, this picture from last night’s lightning storm perfectly captured this morning’s passage from Jeremiah:

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What a vivid reminder that we serve the true, living, and powerful Creator!
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But the Lord is the true God;
he is the living God
and the everlasting King.
At his wrath the earth quakes,
and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Thus shall you say to them:
“The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth
shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”
It is he who made the earth by his power,
who established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
When he utters his voice,
there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain,
and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
~Jeremiah 10:10, 12-13

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WFW is not about books, authors, artists…it’s about God and HIS WORD ONLY.  WFW is about celebrating the gift of creativity through God’s Word through creative graphic illustrations. Link up your own pictures and passages here.

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And, of course, a special hello to everyone visiting from iFellowship!

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In honor of our beautiful rainy day (I love rainy days, and we don’t have nearly enough of them!), I thought it would be fun to participate in Home Is Where You Start From‘s L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge!  This week’s theme is all-too-appropriately,  “Properties of Water”.

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  A special hello to my new friends visiting from iFellowship!

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This post is also linked to 5 Minutes for Mom Wordless Wednesday.

Arizona may be hot and dry, but, it does have amazing skies…  And, the sunrises and sunsets…almost make the heat worth it.  (I said almost!)  So, this week, I thought it would be fun to participate in Rebecca’s Foto Friday Challenge, because the theme was “Sky/Clouds.”  But, my problem was the opposite of Rebecca’s…all week there was hardly a cloud in the sky!  (I know, don’t you feel sorry for me?)

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These particular pictures aren’t the greatest, and they certainly do not showcase the beauty that I have seen in the past…But, even though it didn’t work out as well as I would have liked this week, it did inspire me to think about how I will try to capture the next beautiful sky!  And, I guess, that is the whole point of a photography challenge…

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“Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.” ~Job 35:5

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This is an older picture. (If you’re from around here, you’ll already know that, because cotton isn’t in season anymore.)  But, I love how the cotton sort of resembles clouds!

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For more (and better) pictures from this week’s Sky/Cloud Challenge, go visit Rebecca over at Renaissance!  And, if you have some great Sky/Cloud shots of your own to share, be sure to link up and join the fun!