God sees in the dark!, originally uploaded by Jeanette’s Ozpix.
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
(Psalm 139:7,11,12)
GREETINGS FROM DOWN UNDER!
The green tree frog looking heavenward.
MEET NICK, OUR CHRISSIE DRAGON!, originally uploaded by Jeanette’s Ozpix.
Christmas Day (after lunch) found us traipsing through the rainforest
in search of this secret waterfall that our kids had found.
On the way, we met a DRAGON!!….
(We called him Nick!! More shots to follow…)
… or MANAGER!!Experienced in ALL office procedures!!
Sir Bassy sure is one clever cat!!
I read somewhere, that dogs have owners, but cats have staff!! 
Just been sorting through my photo archives… thought this was cute!
A summer sunset from a few months ago!
I did manage to escape with the camera down the dirt road, hoping to get a nice sunset. It seemed disappointing at first, and the sun wasn’t where I wanted it to be.
But I continuned to the end of the road. By that time the colours were starting to come, and then THIS!!
The Lord sure paints pretty pictures!!
FIRE IN THE SKY!
Another shot of the same sunset.
Funny thing about sunsets. Clear skies don’t make good sunsets, generally. It’s through the clouds that the beauty is displayed. And so with us… God’s glory shines brighter in tough times.
Thank the Lord for the clouds!
It’s been jolly HOT down under!! Too hot if you wear a long fur coat all the time, especially for Sir Bassy. He prefers to drink from running water…
Another water source!
Smile for the camera!!
Back with some shots of Lorry and Lulu, our Rainbow Lorikeets.
My friends had lots of baby things at their farm, including baby guppies… but they were too small to get a good photo, so I went for the mummies and daddies!!
Is that how we sometimes are with God?? We sometimes forget where our strength and help comes from.
So let us heed this timely advice from the Bible…
Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.
Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important.
Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
(Romans 12:3; Galatians 6:3; Philippians 2:3-4 – NLT)
And some warnings about the fate of the proud…
Though the Lord is great, he cares for the humble,
but he keeps his distance from the proud.God opposes the proud but favours the humble.
For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has a day of reckoning.
He will punish the proud and mighty and bring down everything that is exalted.The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he protects the property of widows.
Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.
Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honour.
(Psalm 138:6; James 4:6; Isaiah 2:12; Proverbs 15:25; 16:18; 29:23
So let’s not be like SUPER CHOOK!!
As I was watching, trying to get a nice shot of this mother hen with her brood, I was reminded of a time that Jesus wept over God’s people. He lamented:
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! … How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings …”
“… and you would not!” (Matthew 23:37, NIV)
Boy, it was hard to get a good shot here. I’d try and position the camera through the wires, but sometimes I got the wires. Though, somehow, I do think the wire adds to the picture.
