But mostly the sky: ‘ When people agree to exist with God in a friendly relationship/reconciled way’ … ‘ Then the sky and its blue will show them His hand-made work.’ Psalms 19:1 God speaking through Isaiah: ‘ Like the rain and snow that comes from the sky and does not return until it hasContinue reading “The sky, a mountain and a tree”
Category Archives: Europe Summer 2025 travel
Cycling parts of Annecy’s lakeside route.
This is Moses praying: ‘ Lord you have been the place where we live through all generations. Before the mountains were brought out, and even before You made the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.’ Verses 1,2 Now this is how Moses ends his prayer to God: verse 17.Continue reading “Cycling parts of Annecy’s lakeside route.”
Thoughts by Lake Annecy
There they are vast mountainsMassive,mega,whopping monstersAnd here it is the wild edgings of a lake Vegetation In its parts miniscule, teeny-weeny,A diminutive of the vastHow?A small of the big OrBig of the small.Two complex worldsElaborate, tortuous.Parts impenetrableThe vast and the teeny- weenyAndHere we are looking on,some know they know,we all know a little but HaveContinue reading “Thoughts by Lake Annecy”
Annecy part 2
The first commandment. God speaking: ‘ You shall not have any other gods before Me.’ Exodus 20 :2 In this post, we will see inside Les Musée- Château d’ Annecy and the Palais de I’lle as well as sympathetic planting in street scenes, and as we leave the town Jardin de Europe. It is always aContinue reading “Annecy part 2”
Annecy
Commandment 2 God speaking: ‘ I am a jealous God don’t carve anything in any likeness and then bow to it.’ ( This is Sandy’s summary it is in full in Exodus 20: 4,5,6. I once offered to buy a cross for a friend, since I travel a lot and I like second hand shops. TheContinue reading “Annecy”
Mount Blanc
Commandment number four: God speaking: ‘Remember, (I created the world in six days) the Sabbath day is the Day of your God, I have blessed it and hallowed it.’ A summary by Sandy. It is in full over four verses. Exodus 20: 8-11. We go in relative comfort with ah and squeals from children asContinue reading “Mount Blanc”
From Taninges to Morillon’s
Jeremiah speaking strongly about God: ‘ The Lord is the true God, He is the living God, and everlasting king: at His wrath the Earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not cope with his indignation… He has made the Earth with His power, He has established the world by His wisdom…the gods have notContinue reading “From Taninges to Morillon’s”
Les Gorges de Pont du Diable
Number 5 of the Ten Commandments. This is the only one with a promise. God speaking: ‘ Honour your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God has given you.’Exodus 20: 12 It started with a mouse and sun loungers in a butter cup fieldContinue reading “Les Gorges de Pont du Diable”
Yvoire
Number 6 of the decalogue. God speaking: ‘You mustn’t kill.’ Definition for kill: ‘ the ending of another’s life in any way.’ Yvoire is a small medieval town in southeastern France its nickname is ” gem of the lake.” The lake being lake Geneva or Lac Léman from latin, as in Roman times, it wasContinue reading “Yvoire”
Collonges – sous – Salève
God speaking commandment 7: ‘You mustn’t commit adultery.’ Definition of adultery:’ voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not their spouse.’ Some other words used: unfaithfulness, infidelity, disloyalty, cuckoldry, extramarital sex, affair, liason, intrigue, amour, entanglement, hanky-panky, a bit on the side, fornication. Here is a mountain above the townContinue reading “Collonges – sous – Salève”
The fields of France
Commandment 8 God speaking: ‘ You mustn’t steal.’ Some words for steal: appropriate, blackmail, burglaries, cheat, cozen (steal through trick or deceit),defraud, despoil, heist, housebreak, ,misappropriate, speculate (especially steal from government /public funds),pillage, pinch,pirate,plagiarise. Oxford Dictionary, was I stealing from the dictionary? The fields of France were a sea of green wheat and people busyContinue reading “The fields of France”