Month: December 2020
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Purity 302: Encouragement for the Path of Christian Discipleship
Purity 302 12/28/2020 Good morning! Today’s photo comes from a friend in Columbia County that caught this spectacular sunset on Christmas day. As we enter into the last week of 2020, I want to encourage my friends to reflect on the past year and to specifically think about the ways God has blessed you…
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Out of the Basement, Into the Light of a New Life
Out of the basement… I have a confession to make. Although I share excerpts from Anderson & Baumchen’s Finding Hope Again with every blog post for weeks, other interests and responsibilities have kept me from actually reading the material I share. I had a few spare moments today and began reading where I left off,…
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Purity 301: Encouragement for the Path of Christian Discipleship
Purity 301 Good morning! 12/26/2020 Today’s photo comes from WRIP’s (97.9 FM Mountaintop Radio from Windham-Hunter NY) Facebook page, and it captures a scene from C D Lane Park in Maplecrest NY that shows the aftermath of flood waters due to unseasonably warm temperatures and rain on Christmas Day and the setting sun. I…
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Purity 300: Encouragement for the Path of Christian Discipleship
Purity 300 12/25/2020 MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY FRIENDS! Today’s photo was taken by a friend who captured this sunset scene near their home in Stottville NY.. I share it as a reminder that although Christmas has finally arrived, the sun will be setting on this day before we know it. So celebrate and…
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Purity 299: Encouragement for the Path of Christian Discipleship
Purity 299 12/24/2020 Good morning! Today’s photo was taken by a friend who caught this twilight scene where they caught that transition of the fading light of day with a full moon rising. The snow below reflects the red light, presumably of taillights, to provide a great foundational base for the heavenly display above. It…
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Purity 298: Encouragement for the Path of Christian Discipleship
Purity 298 12/23/2020 Good morning! Today’s photo was taken by a friend in Upstate New York who captured this “sunset- bow” near their home earlier this week. I honestly don’t know if I have ever seen anything quite like it. Now that we are officially in the winter season, one of the things that we…
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Purity 297: Encouragement for the Path of Christian Discipleship
Purity 297 12/22/2020 Good morning! Today’s photo was taken by a friend in Glen Falls, New York who caught this magnificent shot of the sun shining through the trees over this snow-covered landscape. I share it as an encouragement to my friends to assure you that as much as the ground before you may…
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Purity 296: Encouragement for the Path of Christian Discipleship
Purity 296 12/21/2020 Good morning! Today’s photo was taken by a friend in upstate New York, in the aftermath of last week’s snowstorm. I just love the way they captured the sunrise and their red barn! I share it because I thought it was an appropriate vision for a Monday where we have to face…
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Purity 295: Encouragement for the Path of Christian Discipleship
Purity 295 12/19/2020 Good morning! Today’s photo is from the familiar vantage point of my kitchen window “down by The River” that I took yesterday afternoon that displays the aftermath of the Wednesday to Thursday snowstorm and the magnificence of the sun blazing in the sky and reflected on the Hudson. This vision reminds me…
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Purity 294: Encouragement for the Path of Christian Discipleship
Purity 294 12/18/2020 Good morning! Today’s photo was taken by a friend yesterday and it shows some of our fine feathered friends who didn’t fly south for the winter but because of my friend’s kindness were able to find provision in the midst of a whopper of a storm. Christ spoke of how the sparrows…