photo free-for-all

A second-favorite photo: I have this thing for fungi

A most favorite: My littlest grandson (3 1/2 mos) this Christmas

Thursday Challenge

Next Week: RED (Cherries, Apples, Clothing, Furniture, Houses, Cars,...)

anything

Sporeville

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Thursday Challenge

Next Week: SMALL (Insects, Animals, Children, Miniatures, Macro Photos,...)

thankful

Small treasures of creation

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Thursday Challenge

Next Week: SCARY (Spiders, Danger, The Dark, High Places, Phobias, Accidents,...)

circle

Woodland Table

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Thursday Challenge

Next Week: WILDLIFE (Insects, Birds, Fish, Fishing, Bears, Wolfs, any Flora or Fauna,...)

unnoticed

"It is one thing to go through a crisis grandly, but another thing to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, no one paying the remotest attention to us. If we do not want medieval haloes, we want something that will make people say – What a wonderful man of prayer he is! What a pious devoted woman she is! If you are rightly devoted to the Lord Jesus, you have reached the sublime height where no one ever thinks of noticing you, all that is noticed is that the power of God comes through you all the time . . . . The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. "

– Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest)

thoughts on personal ambition

If you seek great things for yourself – God has called me for this and that; you are putting a barrier to God’s use of you. As long as you have a personal interest in your own character, or any set ambition, you cannot get through into identification with God’s interests. You can only get there by losing forever any idea of yourself and by letting God take you right out into His purpose for the world, and because your goings are of the Lord, you can never understand your ways.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God’s not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say – Lord this gives me such a heartache. To talk in that way makes me a clog.

When I stop telling God what I want, He can catch me up for what He wants without let or hindrance. He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses. He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.

Oswald Chambers - from My Utmost for His Highest.

fungifest

Rebecca is having a potatofest. After seeing many and varied mushrooms on our walk today, I think I need to have a fungifest. I think I also need to get a fungus field guide. (Don’t worry, we just looked, we didn’t eat.)

a forest condominium

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