Flowers

Look

It is a priviledge to look and when the looking is over then there is the thought and then the repeat look, think, with this so much giving one a reason to paint. More to see! What are you looking at? Look up to admire. Look into to investigate. Look out to watch for danger. For me as a Christian I could phrase the looking this way. Look up to Jesus, look into the law, and look out, be…

Simply wildflowers

We are still travelling but this evening before the sun’s last rays left the Rhine we were enchanted by wild flowers planted in large areas. My post tomorrow will look at another well loved natural phenomenon in this area. After each photograph is a quote about wild flowers. Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines,…

Het Loo a palace near Apeldoorn Netherlands

I will start this post with two thoughts one from Deuteronomy 6:4,5 and one from Leviticus 19:18. Then see what Jesus says to a lawyer who asks a question: ‘Master, which is the great commandment in the law?’ Here are the two Old Testament quotes: Hear, Oh Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And you will love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. (Sandy says…