Category: Mountains

Indeed Everything

On By Charis PsalloIn Mountains, Photography, Winter4 Comments

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All that is great and powerful and glorious and victorious and majestic

 is Yours, O Eternal One.

 Indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth belongs to You.

 The kingdom belongs to You, O Eternal One, and You are the head of it all.

 Wealth and glory come from You,

 and You rule over them all.

 In Your hand is power and strength,

 and You use them to make great and strengthen everyone.

 Because of your greatness, our God,

 we testify about Your greatness and praise Your glorious name.

 (2 Chronicles 29:11-13 The Voice)

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Speaking of Unfailing Love…

On By Charis PsalloIn Mountains, Sky, Uncategorized, Winter7 Comments

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How good it is to give thanks to the Eternal

and to praise Your name with song, O Most High;

to speak of Your unfailing love in the morning

and rehearse Your faithfulness as night begins to fall.

How good it is to praise to the sound of strings—lute and harp—

the stirring melodies of the lyre.

Because You, O Eternal One,

thrill me with the things You have done,

I will sing with joy in light of Your deeds.

(Psalm 92:1-4)

Breathe

On By Charis PsalloIn Mountains, Photography, Sky2 Comments

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“Breathe”

This is the air I breathe
This is the air I breathe
Your holy presence living in me
This is my daily bread
This is my daily bread
Your very word spoken to me
And I,  I’m desperate for you
And I,  I’m lost without you
This is the air I breathe
This is the air I breathe
Your holy presence living in me
-Michael W. Smith

The Sunshine of Forgiveness

On By Charis PsalloIn Art, Mountains, Sky, Trees and forests, Water4 Comments

 

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We tend to drag up our old sins, we tend to live under a vague sense of guilt…we are not nearly as vigorous in appropriating God’s forgiveness as He is in extending it. Consequently, instead of living in the sunshine of God’s forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.     -Jerry Bridges    

 We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light. For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins. (Colossians 1:11-14)


For the Joy Set Before Him

On By Charis PsalloIn Mountains, Photography, Uncategorized, Winter6 Comments

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

– Hannah More

Note to self: And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. (Hebrews 12:2,3)

Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds

On By Charis PsalloIn Mountains, Photography, Sky, Winter8 Comments
Be exalted, Oh God!
Be exalted, Oh God!

 

My heart is confident in you, O God;

no wonder I can sing your praises with all my heart!

Wake up, lyre and harp!

I will wake the dawn with my song.

I will thank you, Lord, among all the people.

I will sing your praises among the nations.

For your unfailing love is higher than the heavens.

Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens.

May your glory shine over all the earth.

(Psalm 108: 1-5  NLT)

Mountain-Shaper

On By Charis PsalloIn Mountains, Photography, Winter2 Comments

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Look who’s here: Mountain-Shaper! Wind-Maker!
He laid out the whole plot before Adam.
He brings everything out of nothing,
like dawn out of darkness.
He strides across the alpine ridges.
His name is God, God-of-the-Angel-Armies

(Amos 4:13 The Message paraphrase)

Upon a Midnight Clear

On By Charis PsalloIn Mountains, Photography, Sky, Uncategorized2 Comments

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Yet with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the angel strain have rolled Two thousand years of wrong; And man, at war with man, hears not The love-song which they bring; O hush the noise, ye men of strife And hear the angels sing.

And ye, beneath life’s crushing load, Whose forms are bending low, Who toil along the climbing way With painful steps and slow, Look now! for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on the wing. O rest beside the weary road, And hear the angels sing!

For lo! the days are hastening on, By prophet-bards foretold, When with the ever circling years Comes round the age of gold; When peace shall over all the earth Its ancient splendors fling, And the whole world send back the song Which now the angels sing.

 

-from “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” by Marcus Tidmarsh

May the Peace of Christ be with you today and always!

And a very special blessing to a friend of Jesus (and friend of mine) who, just this week, donated a kidney to someone she doesn’t even know. Many, many blessings on you!!!! You are already famous in heaven!