Category Archives: Jesus

Jan31

If This Is All There Is, It’s Not Enough!!

Posted on January 31, 2013 by sagescenery

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What’s Our Purpose???

What’s Our Destination???

Who’s Going To Say, “Well Done!!” At The End???

Jan24

“You Are I Am”

Posted on January 24, 2013 by sagescenery

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God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.'”

Exodus 3:14 NIV

Jan24

Let My Life Be The Proof Of Your Love

Posted on January 24, 2013 by sagescenery

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If I sing but don’t have love…I waste my breathe with every song…I bring, an empty voice…A hollow noise

If I speak with a silver tongue…Convince a crowd but don’t have love…I leave a bitter taste…With every word I say

So let my life be the proof…The proof of Your love…Let my love look like You…And what You’re made of
How you lived, how You died…Love is sacrifice…So let my life be the proof…The proof of Your love

If I give to a needy soul…But don’t have love then who is poor…It seems all the poverty…Is found in me

When it’s all said and done…When we sing our final song

Only love remains…Only love remains

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

1 Corinthians 13:1-7, The Message

The Gospel is a message of love…

Lord, let my life be the proof of Your love…

Jan24

Hold On To The Promises

Posted on January 24, 2013 by sagescenery

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Jan24

“Should’ve Been Me”

Posted on January 24, 2013 by sagescenery

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Let’s all face it…

It should’ve been us!!

Jan21

“Behold, He Is Coming With The Clouds…”

Posted on January 21, 2013 by sagescenery

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“And every eye will see Him…” Revelation 1:7

“Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds

to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.”

I Thessalonians 4:17

“…and they will see the Son of Man

coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.”

Matthew 24:30

“Jesus said to him,

‘You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter

you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power,

and coming on the clouds of Heaven.’”

Matthew 26:64

“And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above;

and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.”

Daniel 12:3

“When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars,

which You have set in place, what is man that You are mindful of him,

and the son of man that You care for him?”

Psalm 8:3-4

“To Him who made the great lights,

for His steadfast love endures forever.”

Psalm 136:7

“The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it,

for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.”

Revelation 21:23

“And the street of the city was pure gold…”

Revelation 21:21

Jan13

“Up On The Roof”

Posted on January 13, 2013 by sagescenery

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“Hoo…Hoo!”

The way the sun’s shining, makes this dove seem as if it’s made of clay, like our roof!

But, it’s very real!!

Looking up…I caught these black birds perched on a neighbor’s roof!

They have a great view of the Heavens!

And not a care in the world!

Jesus, if we would just learn to look up, too!

And stay fixated on You…

I know you’d care for us, also!

Amen!

When I look up (fix my eyes on You!)…

I see some amazing things!

I remember all your promises…

I see all Your faithfulness…

Help me in this new year to do just that!

“…fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him He endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:2 NIV

Jan10

The Christmas Vultures…And Other Christmas Realities!!

Posted on January 10, 2013 by sagescenery

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Here’s an email I sent to my dear cousin in NJ who sent us a lovely “Tour of Italy” basket this Christmas!

“Dearest Cousin!!

Thank you so much!! We love it!! Such a wonderful little tour of Italy!! How lovely!! So thoughtful of you!!!

I believe it was a beautifully decorated tin with bow, with all boxes filled with goodies, and cellophane intact, but the ‘Christmas Vultures’ in my house…tore open everything while I was at church last night…and by the time I got home, the mixed nuts were devoured by the BIG vulture…and the cheese swirls were gobbled up by the cute little vulture!!

So I had to hide all the chocolates from them…lest I have nothing! Ha! And then I dug out the beautiful bow from the discarded box, and place it lovingly back on the gorgeous tin basket around the pasta packages that were miraculously still uneaten!!

I get to open so few gifts…I felt cheated!!

My brother and his wife sent a Texas Yahoo Coffee Cake, and the BIG vulture had a trail of crumbs from the table to his chair…so he couldn’t even deny it was him who tore into it!! The vultures are instructed to not open any gifts without me ever again!! Especially those from MY side of the family! Ha!

Have a Very Merry & Blessed Christmas, Cuzzie!! Love you so much! Me”

Her response came quickly!!

“Well, at least you got a little bit of it!!! Next time I’ll have to have it wrapped in a box with a lock that only you can open!! (Only kidding, of course.) There is no way to keep “vultures” out if they want to get in!

Hope you have a Merry Christmas, too! Love you! Me”

I laughed so hard I almost couldn’t type back!

“Thanks, Cuzzie…that was my early morning laugh!!!! I liked your idea of the lock, though!! The cute little vulture said, ‘I guess I should have taken a photo of it!!!’ Duh…that would have been nice!! Since his generation takes photos of everything…hence the allure of FB!! If I make it ’til Christmas, it will be a miracle! Pray for me!”

Other Christmas Realities!!

I took on too much…

I can’t continue to eat like this…

I stressed too much…

I will never again make all my yearly doctor’s/dentist’s/etc. check-up appointments in December!!

I’m not used to working…

AND doing Christmas!!

It’s been 10 years since I retired!

But Hallelujah…

I did get it all done…

Thank you, Jesus!!

I enjoyed celebrating YOUR Birthday!