Beauty in the Shadows

 

          Sometime last year in the late summer or early fall, we had a burst of major storms. There's so much beauty, yet so much fear when it comes to adverse weather. Today, I am sharing some Bible verses with you that demonstrate how mighty God is by the description of His voice and how thunder may be an example of His anger with the people that do not believe in Him and the people who keep sinning even after they have received His grace and mercy.

 

 

"The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them:..."

I. Samuel 2:10

 

"And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail,..."

Exodus 9:23

 

"...The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth."

Jeremiah 25:30

 

"The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel."

Joel 3:16

 

"And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:"

Mark 3:17

 

 

          This final verse makes reference, not to God, but to the powerful speaking voices of the disciples, James and John - the sons of Zebedee.

Judo Girl and Chemistry

Cute sister. :)

In this experiment, we added some drops of food colouring to the milk. Then we added a bit of dish soap. Because milk is both polar (the water part) and nonpolar (the fat part), the dye showed how the milk was both attracted and repelled by the soap.

This picture and above: October 12, 2016



My 12-year-old sister arranged these mums.

They're lovely, aren't they?

This picture and above: September 30, 2016

This picture and above: September 28, 2016

This picture and above: September 26, 2016

This picture: September 24, 2016

Acting silly

This picture and above: September 23, 2016

Something spooked her.

This picture and above: September 22, 2016

Today...

I may have fallen in love with panoramas.

 

 

I took a little sideroad, which I realized was a grave mistake (wet, puddly gravel road - my car decided on traction control, and I almost slipped out once or twice!),

but I caught this gorgeous thunder-and-lightning cloud above me.

Blackberries and Other Produce

 

This was still from last summer. I can't wait until this summer.

 

And I caught the culprit who was munching on our blackberries!

 

A particularly productive bunch.

 

We have several small apple trees that have begun producing.

 

Eating chocolate (what else?!). :D

 

First tomatoes (they happened to do really well last year).

 

 

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:..." Galatians 5: 22-23

 

"...For the tree is known by his fruit." Matthew 12:33