It’s still dark out as I try to read the outdoor thermometer. Close to 40 below zero but getting warmer, all is frozen except for some wildlife and birds. I have no idea how a deer’s ears or the chickadee’s feet do not freeze. I park myself in an easy chair in front of the picture window, open my bible and let the Lord speak to me through his word. He does.
In Matthew 19:13-15 I read where people brought their children to Jesus. He laid hands on them and blessed them. In our culture today it would have been a moms club that got together, collected the kids and marched them to Jesus. However it happened the disciples were not in on it as they were rather miffed. Jesus’ time was too important for that. Another flaw in their religious thinking was toppled as Jesus told them that the kingdom of God was made up of children such as these.
I immediately asked the Lord if he would lay his hands on this old guy 2000 years later and bless him. I immediately received a response. “I did that when you were a child, don’t you remember?”
A flood of memories came to mind through the years. Instances of intimacies with the Savior, incidents unexplainable apart from the hand of God. My parents had often presented us (and a slew of other children) to Jesus. “Age aside my child, you can still bring people to Jesus.”
Yes Lord, I am willing to bring someone to you today.
I watched the morning sky lighten to lavender then rose and finally blue. It’s 10 degrees warmer and light enough to take a picture of the thermometer. A deer walking the perimeter browsed on spruce bough ends as the chickadees came to our outdoor-left-over Christmas tree (click any picture to enlarge for slide show)







The phone rings and I get my winter clothes on and go help my neighbor quickly get to Emergency (another ongoing story for sometime).

Gary
Beautiful pictures and prose, Gary.
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Thankyou Mandy
It’s been quite cold out there and most pictures these days are taken through the window. Camera freezes too easily…batteries anyway.
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Well written, I feel like I am sitting right next to you. (Hope to do that someday!)
Blessings
BT
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Thanks Brian
That would be fun.
I hope to build a rustic cabin just in the woods for visitors this next summer.
If it becomes possible to travel (our daughters needs are too great right now), A Canadian trip would be fun for us.
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Your words and pictures are beautiful. That color is absolutely stunning!
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Thanks Stephanie. I usually associate that morning color with an extremely cold sunrise with no clouds. It’s fun seeing that rose tint on the trees and in the snow. My camera cannot seem to pick it up enough to show in a picture. But the sky is overtly lavender then rose and then blue. God colors even the cold
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