Joy

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The following was written by James, a brother of Jesus…

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.  He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.”

James 1:17-18

(This photo was taken in October of 2014 at sunrise on the island of Maui)

Love

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“Keep on loving each other as brothers.  Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.”

Hebrews 13:1-2

(This photo was taken in August of 2016 in Glacier National Park in Montana)

Living Water

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Jesus speaking to a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well…

“Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.  Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life’.”

John 4:13-14

(This photo was taken in June of 2013 at Falls Park in Sioux Falls, South Dakota)

Thankful For God’s Love

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“This is how God showed his love among us:  He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

1 John 4:9-10

(This photo was taken in February of 2013 in a neighborhood near Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Thoughts and Ways

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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.  As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 55:8-9

(This photo was taken in July of 2016 while driving in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming)