My Travel Blogs:
Lines on plants…
A doxology Doxo (glory) Logia (saying) ” a word of glory” Ah, to know the love of Christ that passes all knowledge, that we may be filled with all the fulness of God. Now to Him who is able to do more than we are able to think, according to the power that works in us. To Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout the ages, world without end. Amen Ephesians 3: 19,20 If I could spend time drawing lines on petals and leaves would that be art?…
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Leaves and sky/sky and leaves.
Religion John the disciple left as a prisoner on Patmos to think and pray and have visions. The apostle who wrote the book Revelation. Here he is speaking about Christ/Jesus: ‘ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.’ John 1:1,2 Now Solomon is speaking in Christ’s voice: ‘ The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old I was set up from everlasting from the beginning, or ever the Earth was.’ Proverbs 8:…
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Coombe Gibbet
Scenes from where we have been before. Where was that? When was that? That ‘ before ‘was when the weather was wet and the wind blew. Today it is dry but the wind is there and clips the trees and grass. We are walking on the Sabbath about four miles to Coombe Gibbet. The Gibbett still stands but the story has been told already.The people, those you walk with, are they still the same?Yes and no!Some are, some aren’t.So why do you want to do these miles again?Here is why… The…
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The fall of a sunflower
A packet of seeds Sunflower seeds Planted. Lifted with fine roots clinging to the soil. Gently placed: Six here, five there, one looking over the wall. How do I paint a sunflower?No!How do I see these sunflowers?Six here, five there and one looking over the wall.Oh, I forgot! The ten, spaced evenly in a barrel!Glad, proud, strong and tallTurning to the sun’s soft callThen slowly bowing Deeply bowing in seedHumble heavy full heads.How do I see the packet of seeds that grew taller than us in 60 days?Yellow petals held in…
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A vase and mug for Autumn 2025
Jesus speaking: ‘ You must love the Lord your God with all your heart/emotions, with all your soul/the energy of your body made by breathing air?, and your mind/intelligence .’ Sandy trying to think. This is the first commandment. But how? ‘ And the second is like the first, You must love the other person like you love yourself.’ It reads well in Matthew 22: 37-40 as words Jesus spoke. But how? The 10 commandments are hooked on these two. First 4 on one hook answering how. Exodus 20: 1-7 The…
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Flint in the clouds or flint and the clouds
Flint is hard, it cuts like glassSponge is soft a cloud of creamy whiteA long time ago Flint was SpongeReally!With soft clouds of Sponge that is now cylicon Flint!Our EarthOur MYSTERIOUS Earth!The earth and skyOrSky and EarthGod, please give me a gracious way to leave as dust scattered on the Earth.Flint or Sponge?Or part of the acorns on a tree where Dad Brian’s ashes were scattered once and are gone.Here are two strong passages one from the New Testament and one from the Old Testament.(Revelations 20: 11-15 and Exodus 32:31-32)John speaking:…
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The garden is here…
Paul speaking: ‘ For the invisible things from God are here to clearly see from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made; even His eternal power and Godhead; so that we are without excuse…the language gets really strong after this. It is all in Romans 1: 20…. A poem for our garden we often leave but love so much. The garden is here but never the same.Plants are ever here with roots in clay.They travel not to France, Italy, Germany etc but grow in this…
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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 Have we ever as one of a whole known the whole?Never!’ For now we know in part, but then we will know fully even as we have been fully known.’, Corinthians 13:12When is ‘then’?Who knows us fully?For…
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A double centred rose
Commandment 3 God speaking: ‘ Do not use my name in a wicked, worthless, wrong way! You will be held guilty if you use it this way. Use it meaningfully with respect.’ ( Sandy’s wording of Exodus 20: 7) Jesus speaking: ‘Every carelessly, thoughtlessly spoken word is going to be accounted for in the judgement. For by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be condemned.’ ( Sandy’s wording of Matthew 12: 36) A Double Centred RoseI picked it!I knew I could A double centred rose,…
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Nuits-Saint Georges
Commandment 9 after 10, reading backwards. God speaking: ‘ You must not tell lies.’ Nuits-Saint Georges is in Eastern France. We are going into the historic part of the town. For a night in Nuit- Saint GeorgeThere is peace in an allocated space to park and a long, pleasant path edged by a wall and a canal.The sign says to the historic part.Let us notice the bouncing Bess growing by the edge of the trickle of water and the mansion beyond the vineyards seen through bars in the wall. The swallows…
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Wednesday at Wisely
Let Charles Dickens set the scene: ‘It was one of those March (May) days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.’ The trial gardens with the publics favourite tulip given a first. ‘At the RHS, we run plant trials to assess the best performing cultivars. We grow different cultivars of plants in the same conditions . We then judge them against the same set of criteria to ensure a fair test.’ Looking at a few individual…
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A Buttercup
Religion ‘ While God’s hatred of sin is as strong as death, His love for the sinner is stronger than death… No truth essential to our salvation is held back, No miracle of mercy neglected, No divine agency is left unemployed. Favour is heaped on favour, gift upon gift. The whole treasury of heaven is open to those God seeks to save. Having collected all the riches of the universe and laid open the resources of infinite power, God gives them into the hands of Christ and says: ‘ All these…
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