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Tag: Peace

  • Soul Therapy Recipe

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    Soul Therapy Recipe  Ingredients and Directions 1. One friend with a boat. 2. Launch in Prince William Sound on calm seas. 3. Stir in a vast wilderness of towering mountains and massive glaciers. 4. Warm softly all day with sunshine. 5. Harvest a bounty of shrimp and fish from cool, blue waters shared by sea…

  • Twilight Masterpiece

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    It’s now dark by midnight in the Last Frontier as each day shortens by about 5 1/2 minutes, but the endings are spectacular beyond words! Here’s tonight’s11:30 PM finale masterpiece viewed from our deck.  “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands“. -Psalm 19:1         …

  • Flowers and Fire . . . Smiles and Spirits

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    Fireweed is named for its ability to rapidly colonize areas burned by fire. The poppy is a symbol of remembrance, and hope for a peaceful future. Wandering the woods today my thoughts drifted into a muddled ambivalence. Past fires have regretfully scorched areas of my life … yet . . . I’m forever grateful having…

  • Waters

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    Calm/Swift . . . Clear/Muddy . . . Turbulent/Tranquil . . . water is a metaphor of life. Such were where my thoughts drifted on today’s wilderness wander pondering the day when, with those gone before me, I will forever contentedly wander beside the river of “pure . . . clear as crystal “ waters.…

  • Calm before the Storm

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    Were that life could be a continual mountaintop experience.  Reality is most is lived in the valleys where its been said you’re either in the midst of a storm, coming out of one, or one lies ahead on your journey. But take heart . . . just as rainbows appear after the storm, each storm…

  • Ethereal Mountain Mists

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    Fred D
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    Six thousand feet ft. high among the Great Smoky Mountain cathedrals the immense magnificence of my Father’s canvases serenely consumed my infinitesimal smallness.                                 “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth”. – Psalm 8:9

  • Wildflower Reminiscing

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    Woodland wanderings always envelop my soul with an inexplicable, comforting . . . I’m Home . . . peace. Perhaps it’s because this world is not my final home, and His creation reveals glimpses of my final forever Home. In nearly 8 decades life’s journey has found me calling 8 states home . . .…

  • Teardrops and Raindrops

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    Tears of joy, and those of sorrow We know not which will fall tomorrow Raindrops upon a flower’s bloom Prompts dismissing teardrops’ gloom Our tears of grief, and those of loss Were all once shed upon a Cross He knows our grief, our pain and sorrow And saves each one to dry tomorrow “You know…