Earthly-Prophet

Photo a day: earthly

My husband lives like he's the lorax. He doesn't take more than he needs, he would plant a tree every two feet if I allowed it, and he forces us to recycle everything! His shoes are about as earthly as they come!

Photo a day: prophet

Closest thing to a prophet I know:) Proud to call her my friend.

Free Online Dictionary defines prophet as:
1. A person who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of a god is expressed.
2. A person gifted with profound moral insight and exceptional powers of expression.
3. A predictor; a soothsayer.
4. The chief spokesperson of a movement or cause.
5.
a. Prophets (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The second of the three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures, comprising the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve. Used with the. See Table at Bible.
b. Prophet One of the prophets mentioned in the Bible, especially one believed to be the author of one of these books. Used with the.

Lift-Hear

PHOTO A DAY: Lift

When I'm having a bad day at work, walking away from my desk, getting some fresh air and ordering a latte from Biggby's is a tremendous lift!!

PHOTO A DAY: Hear

Sometimes I wonder if I'm truly listening when He's whispering to me.  I feel pretty confident that I have trained myself to listen when He's yelling at me, but I'm still working on hearing the nudges and the whispers.   In Sunday school this week, we wrote letters to God.  All of them were great, but one of the kids really nailed it.  The student didn't want to take it home, so I did.  Now it's in my Bible.  I'll have this reminder the next time that I don't want to wake my little monsters up and wrestle their clothes on.  I'll have it the next time that I don't HEAR the whispers. 

 

 

 

 

Cover

PHOTO A DAY: Cover

We want to appear to be put together, but not too put together.  You know, mismatched but actually matched.  I said no pinterest, but I have to take a picture of a pinterest screen to show this...because I can't do the "mismatched but actually match" thing!




























We want to cover the flaws, but not look fake.




























We want to be warm, but not forget the chill.




Cover the spread. Cover one's ass.  Cover the ground. Take cover. Under cover.

Good word for a Monday! 


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Praying for strong lungs and bright blue eyes

The type of news

you know the kind

your heart stops beating

and your head starts spinning

that helpless feeling

the paralizying emotions

they invade your body

producing tears and fears

bringing you to your knees

 

Because there's nothing,

nothing you can do

 

BUT PRAY. 

Fierce

bold

big prayers

for health

for strength

for mercy

for hope

for love

to feel His loving hand

always

Prayers to one of my beautiful friends and her baby boy who has decided that he wants to meet the world a bit early.  Prayers for strong lungs and big bright blue eyes.  So that he can introduce Mommy and Daddy to a whole new world of love.



 So far, so good:)  Baby Murphy is doing great!  2/25/13 5lbs 2oz 19 inches

Spirit-Live-Vision

PHOTO A DAY: Spirit

The nonphysical part of a person that is the seat of emotions and character; the soul.

PHOTO A DAY: Live

I totally flipped when I walked in the house to this!  Not that they're building a fort...they are sitting on top of chairs on a cushion!!  "If they fall through, they'll learn!  You have to let them live a little!"

































PHOTO A DAY: Vision





























 

LOVE

PHOTO A DAY: LOVE

Hebrews 4:1-10

New International Version (NIV)

A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God

4 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. ² For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.^{[a] 3} Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

“So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”^[b]

And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. ⁴ For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”^{[c] 5} And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”

⁶ Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, ⁷ God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”^[d]

⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. ⁹ There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; ¹⁰ for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works,^[e] just as God did from his.

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Evil

PHOTO OF THE DAY: EVIL

During this photo a day challenge, I have started to think ahead to the next day or even a few days out.  What can I take a picture of that represents the word they have asked for?  What does the word mean to me?  How can illustrate it in one or even a few photos?

I've been thinking of something to represent evil for a few days now.  I didn't have any ideas that weren't, well, EVIL.  For example, I thought, I could take a picture of X...they are EVIL!  Next I thought, I could take a picture of the gas price posted at the local gas station. But, I was too lazy to stop the car, get out of my car (because my windshields are too dirty to take a photo through) and then snap the picture. 

I tried to think of other things on my drive in this morning that were evil and decided that I would stop at a gas station on my way home if I couldn't come up with anything better.

Well, one of my co-workers answered the call and I didn't even dial his number!  I walked into my office to this cute little surprise!!

"Awww, how cute!  What a nice friend.  He knows how much I love potato chips! How thoughtful!"

NOT!!

He knows that I gave up potato chips for lent!  He knows that they will sit on my desk for the next month and taunt me every second of the freaking day.

TEMPTATION.

I confronted him as soon as he walked in the office:

Mr. Doerner, you are most certainly going to hell.

Fake confused look: What?

Don't play dumb.  I know you bought the effing chips and displayed them ever so beautifully next to my computer!

As he follows me to my office: Laura, I would have searched for Wavy Lays if I would have been the prankster.

BOLOGNIE!! I know you did it.   I know they don't sell Wavy Lays downstairs or you would have bought them! I'm going to get you back.

 (ALSO EVIL-REVENGE)

If you were wondering how my lent sacrifices are going after week one: I want chips more than Facebook.  I haven't really craved for a soda and I'm enjoying my added slice of giving back each day.

I will fight this temptation and leave this bag of chips on my desk until Easter...I can't guarantee that I won't seek revenge;)

Deuteronomy 9:13-21

New International Version (NIV)

¹³ And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! ¹⁴ Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”
¹⁵ So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. ¹⁶ When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you. ¹⁷ So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.
¹⁸ Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger. ¹⁹ I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me. ²⁰ And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too. ²¹ Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.