Wednesday, May 14, 2014

You were deliberately planned - (Not so) Wordless Wednesday


You aren't an accident.  You weren't mass-produced.  You aren't an assembly-line product.  You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on this earth by the Master Craftsman.
  Max Lucado



"You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him.  You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself:  I am the LORD."
 Leviticus 19:17-18
The Revised Standard Version




12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
1 Corinthians 13:12
The Message (MSG)



Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. And the other things on the face of the earth are created for man and that they may help him in prosecuting the end for which he is created. From this it follows that man is to use them as much as they help him on to his end, and ought to rid himself of them so far as they hinder him as to it. For this it is necessary to make ourselves indifferent to all created things in all that is allowed to the choice of our free will and is not prohibited to it; so that, on our part, we want not health rather than sickness, riches rather than poverty, honor rather than dishonor, long rather than short life, and so in all the rest; desiring and choosing only what is most conducive for us to the end for which we are created.
Ignatius of Loyola 

11 comments:

  1. Beautiful photos! Thanks for the biblical quotes.

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  2. I really love how empowered we live life when we realize that God made us exactly as we are and that our lives have meaning, purpose, and direction. Thank you for the lovely pictures, too!

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  3. Great photos and quotes! Thanks for linking up with Woman to Woman's Word Filled Wednesday! God bless!

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  4. I am always concerned, and not really consumed.. although sometimes i am consumed, i will admit it..

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  5. Beautiful! Both the photos and the quotes are inspirational

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  6. Beautiful pictures. Sometimes I have to remind myself not to get consumed

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  7. The pictures are stunning and the quotes very inspirational

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  8. All those photos make you think so much. That there is so much we just don't appreciate. Good posts on them too.

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  9. Your imagery is terrific! The pics make me want to visit Ecuador. Thank you for bringing a piece of your world, into mine :)

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  10. wonderful Scripture and quotes - and beautiful pictures!!

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