Searching For His Glory

I've finally chosen my word for the new year.

It is glory.

I went searching for His glory this morning.

In my very brown and drab backyard I found this.

A small nandina bush hidden over behind some dead looking stuff.

I snapped off one branch and brought it in the house.

Put it in a vase of water--

and started clicking--

oh, photography--one of my greatest joys--

I took it from room to room--

from table to table--

and window to window--

set it in front of a watercolor I had painted of my granddaughter

which turned out looking almost exactly like my 8th grade school picture--

and realized when I saw the eyes--

that yes, I had seen His glory

He had given me eyes to see His glory this morning.

the glory of the only begotten of the Father.

Praying you see His glory today.

©All text, photography and art property and copyright of Elizabeth Dianne unless otherwise noted

My God, Search Me!

“O Lord, You are the God of the early mornings, 

the God of the late nights, 

the God of the mountain peaks, 

But, my God, my soul has horizons further away than those of early mornings, deeper darkness than the nights of earth, higher peaks than any mountain peaks, greater depths than any sea in nature. 

You who are the God of all these, be my God.  

I cannot reach to the heights or to the depths; there are motives I cannot discover, dreams I cannot realize. 

"My God, search me.”

--the words of Oswald Chambers--

© ALL ART, PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXT PROPERTY OF ELIZABETH DIANNE UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Morning Has Broken

I am starting the new year with several different devotional plans--one of them is a 40 day journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  This morning he challenged us to journal about how we spend our mornings and if we are satisfied with the way we spend them.

For many years I was faithful to morning devotionals but when retirement came and I "had more time"--I slipped--

There have been few days that I have not had some type of daily devotions but 

"having them at my leisure" has also carried with it a "not so urgent"aspect to my prayer life.

This year, twenty fourteen, is a brand new year and I want to go into it as I did some years ago when my alarm rang with an urgency--

when I KNEW that my prayers and devotional life needed to be in the early morning because

of exhaustion later in the day--

school teacher, wife, and mother of three sons--

This is not to undermine the importance of "praying without ceasing" all day everyday.

But for me, I need the spiritual discipline of early mornings prayer, Bible reading and meditation.

 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.  Mark 1:35

In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice;

    in the morning I lay my requests before you

    and wait expectantly.

Psalm 5:3

Following God With Joy

A Rose of Beauty

© All art, photographs and text property of Elizabeth Dianne unless otherwise noted, 

All Rights Reserved