Photo every day, Lent 2016: joy

Today's theme is joy. I have been trying to focus on the good things in life and what brings me joy so it seems a good topic to me. I hope the photo makes you smile..

Photo every day, Lent 2016: covenant

I have been on a ministers retreat and thinking about today's theme of 'covenant'. My covenant with God is to live out the call he has placed on my heart as well as I am able. I feel inadequate at times but it's not about me and what I do. It shouldn't be about relying on me but about relying on God. Here is a poem that materialised today...

To serve you

To serve you

Isn't easy

yet here I am 

With open heart 

and hands outstretched 

To meet you

To greet the stranger

To love the outcast

To worship you in essence.

To say here I am

Send me.

To serve you

With every ounce of me.

All that I am

And meant to be.

I listen for instruction

But sometimes you say,

'Just simply be,

Stop, 

Relax

Breathe deeply

Lean on me.'

To serve

I need to observe

The season of change

The call of your Word

That disturbs the tranquility

In silent humility

I offer myself

Once more to your call

I listen some more

Then you whisper to me

'Just walk through the door.'

Copyright revdjo 24/2/16

Photo every day, Lent 2016: live

Today's photo theme is 'live'. How do you choose to live your life?

Photo every day, Lent 2016

Today's photo theme is love... This is a photo I took of the Last Supper which hangs in St George's Church, Nailsworth. I have blogged about this before.

Photo every day, Lent 2016: refuge

Today's theme is 'refuge'. God is my refuge, my hiding place. God is my defender, my shield. My hope is firmly in His word, my hope is in God.

Photo every day, Lent 2016: mighty

Today theme is 'mighty' which made me think of the ocean and this passage inIsaiah  43:16-21

This is what the LORD says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, 

17 who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: 

18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.

19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. 

20 The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

21 the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.