Two Different Adjustments

 Just want to apologize for a longer than expected break, but I'm happy that you didn't forget about me! Thanks to all for your kind words..I can't tell you how much that meant! 

For those of you who did celebrate Thanksgiving- I hope it was the best ever!

I still want to express my gratitude at a time reminiscent of Easter in that it seems faith is under assault..especially here in America where we're often reminded of our failures.
I've penned here, why I feel we are different-

2 Co 3:17 says "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty"

If we believe those words, then we are only able to truly defend her.

Everything in regard to America's future- has to be adjusted at this point.

Pilgrims came from far away lands,

Seeking freedom and refuge from persecution

Baggage- we know they brought more than just clothes on their backs-

Yet, they carried within them a legacy

&

Held this treasure deep inside. 

Like the pearl of great price -

The Founders then brilliantly wove this into the very fabric our Constitution.

Here lies the distinction together with the power of our uniqueness-

They sailed along with those

With entirely different motives-

Who would never share that vision.

Yet, it's simply the spiritual makeup of humanity

As old and stark in it's contrast as Cain and Able..

Our Constitution..
Is it not just as the law..in that it was meant to direct us to the Spirit?..(so that if we simply adhere to the spirit)- the fruit would be life and liberty..not to become confused with the world's grasping at the outside, the temporal..but what God has demonstrated in His son, through life in him- which he can only rectify ~ (when we submit on an individual basis.) This can only be worked out daily.

The spiritual opposition to this legacy presents another adjustment- notice it must ever carry a pickle jar with all of America's screw ups.

Can you imagine if God did that to us?

But the power of the gospel is, that the adjustment will always come on an individual basis.

America hangs in the balance..Sharia law is at our door- ironically, the same story we were told about in the book of Exodus-  back in Egypt.
It's over Slavery and the Promise- that of the Lamb who was slain. 
 

Ja 1:25 "But he who looks closely into the perfect Law--the Law of freedom--and continues looking, he, being not a hearer who forgets, but an obedient doer, will as the result of his obedience be blessed."

Thanks again for your kind words and e-mails..I just got behind but will be by to visit tomorrow-

World On Canvas

Today is 11-11-11
~Thanking God for our Veteran's, counting our blessings~
"But in our troubled time, the right of men to think and worship as their conscience dictates is being sorely pressed. We can retain these privileges only by being constantly on guard and fighting off any encroachment on these precepts. To retreat from any of the principles handed down by our forefathers, who shed their blood for the ideals we still embrace, would be a complete victory for those who would destroy liberty and justice for the individual--Walt Disney~

easons in review..

"The wind is blowing foreward, foreward foreward

Out of this day into the next

Out of this week, into the following one

And from this one into another..

Try as we might to hold on to the Sycamores

And whatever familiar landscapes surround us

Gradually we lose our grip and

Are swept into a river of tomorrows"

Herb Benham~

Last Winter everyone was excited for Spring to come..

Summer's gone now, 

Soon we'll say goodby to Fall~

Watching a biker on the fly

While an afternoon slipped by..

into the darkness

(Gazebo-style bandstand- Mooheau Park downtown Hilo)

We had an early snow fall this year
but haven't had a chance to take a drive up to the Mountain yet..

These was taken a year ago January-

"What is life?

It is a flash of a firefly in the night

It is the breath of a buffalo  fox in the Wintertime

It is the little shadow

Which runs across the grass snow

And loses itself in the sunset"

Crowfoot 1890~

The Ant and the Hair

Watching dad shave..

This ant reminded me of an Occupier. While giving my husband a haircut,  I almost missed him when I went to grab my camera. I caught him before he slipped down into the crack of our picnic table.

You'll have to enlarge and look closely. Can you see the hair he made off with?

Where are you? (making their way over to dad's shop)-

 Normally it's those small dogs who are the trouble makers- like the one on my side bar (in-laws).This is my son's (female) who happened to be visiting before last weeks costume ball!

Above the shop- minding our own business..

Ahh, it's you..

Come on, let's box (cats honestly know how)

Oh no, where did she go now?

You have to be fast at freezing their antics-

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I've been under the weather and haven't been able to blog really much.. speaking of weather, we've got thunder and lightening today with heavy rain (again). Well, my dog is not a happy camper-  despite the fact she's safe in the house with me!

Anyway, I will be by to visit soon-

thanks~