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Good evening, Canteeners! 🤗
Bible in a Year :
The desert will bloom with flowers.
A century ago, lush forest covered roughly 40 percent of Ethiopia, but today it’s around 4 percent. Clearing acreage for crops while failing to protect the trees has led to an ecological crisis. The vast majority of the remaining small patches of green are protected by churches. For centuries, local Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido churches have nurtured these oases in the midst of the barren desert. If you look at aerial images, you see verdant islands surrounded by brown sand. Church leaders insist that watching over the trees is part of their obedience to God as stewards of His creation.
The prophet Isaiah wrote to Israel, a people who lived in an arid land where bare desert and brutal droughts threatened. And Isaiah described the future God intended, where “the desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom” (Isaiah 35:1). God intends to heal His people, but He intends to heal the earth too. He’ll “create new heavens and a new earth” (65:17). In God’s renewed world, “the desert will bloom with flowers” (35:2 nirv).
God’s care for creation—including people—motivates us to care for it too. We can live in sync with His ultimate plan for a healed and whole world—being caretakers of what He’s made. We can join God in making all kinds of deserts bloom with life and beauty.
Reflect & Pray
Where do you see some part of creation barren or suffering? How will you be part of seeing deserts bloom?
Creator God, please show me how to help heal and restore what’s broken in the world.
Click to discover God’s creative purpose for nature and a nation
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We had a Severe T-Storm Warning here yesterday afternoon however it didn't do anymore here than produce enough thunder and lightning to spook Gizmo into hiding under the bed.
Yesterday at Chisolm Trail Park:
How's everyone doing this morning?
This Mother’s Day will be special for me. A bunch of republican women have come out saying they believe the life of the mother is more important than the life of the child. They are saying if ithey had to choose, they would chose to murder their baby.
What kind of mother wouldn’t sacrifice her life for her child?
What kind of man would love a woman who would not??
The republicans are now pro homosexuality, pro groomer, pro abortion.
They fund every democrat budget since Obama to include granny’s in schools.
The Republican Party left me.
I will support local elections with freedom loving small government candidates.
The big pharma, big gov med republicans can pound sand.
Freedom matters. Their move to the Marxist left has emboldened evil at every level.
And of course the expose that MTG made millions off insider trading with the Ukraine war, was another nail in the coffin. Of course she stopped self reporting. Do you really think she changed her ways ??
Your sons daughters husbands wives and grandchildren while she and the rest of the uniparty cash in.
It just occurred to me that this is the first year I won’t be sending a Mother’s Day card or flowers. Lost Mom last month. 😪 She was holding out for either the Rapture, or her 100th birthday. She definitely missed the Rapture. Her 100th birthday... she “missed it by that much” — four months.
