Good Morning,
Thursday has been HOT & MUGGY. It makes me appreciate the low humidity in California. We are on the go a lot, but today we just took it easy. I made lunch while Storm figured out what routes we would take on our mini road trip next Monday - Wednesday. On the last night we will be staying in a little cabin that is right by the ocean. I am looking forward to that.
Today we are going up to Bangor to a food show...part of the job that Storm does as a food service manager for her school district. We will be able to graze there, and we will call that our lunch. After that we are going to Hobby Lobby. Storm has never been there, and I love to go there. I am looking forward to that as well..
Have a fantastic Friday!
God bless
Corinne
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The devotional for Friday is called "What God Sees." It is written by Corinne Mustafa. The theme of this devotional is that although things may be beautiful when they are dressed in whatever nature dresses them in...people beautiful clothes or trees with leaves it is the inside that makes them beautiful. God looks at the inside of His people and does not need them to be all gussied up on the outside to be appreciated by Him. Corinne wrote, "For God there is no need of trappings that cover who He has created us to be. He loves the bare bones of all whom He has created."
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What God Sees.
But now the Lord who created you, O Israel, says: Don’t be afraid, for I have ransomed you; I have called you by name; you are mine.
To say that trees are beautiful is an observation that is apparent. They are homes for birds to build nests. They provide shade for the sizzling days of summer. In fact, where would we be without trees...in a desert perhaps.
We all appreciate trees when Spring comes and the bright green leaves start to present themselves...when the pinkness of flowers give us a warm fuzzy feeling. Then there are the amazing shade trees that we can hide under in the summer.
Well, I was looking at trees in fall when the leaves have fallen off and left them naked. They look so lovely with their lacy limbs exposed. That is the time when you can see the bare bones of a tree...the beautiful lacy skeleton of all that encompasses the beauty of a tree when it is unveiled. Without this skeleton of lacy branches the new spring look of pale greenness would not be. Without this skeleton the full dark green shade of summer also would not be.
People look at us and they are distracted by the lush greenery of our outer looks. The trappings that cover us in beauty...of clothing, of talent, or of makeup and all the things that the world finds to present and to show that someone is special...a work of art so to speak. What God looks at is the bare bones...the skeleton...and sees the true wonder of who we really are...the bare bones of the skeleton that is there. He does not need to have all the trappings of beauty, He sees us as we are...pure and beautiful as He has made us. For God there is no need of trappings that cover who He has created us to be. He loves the bare bones of all whom He has created
Written by
Corinne Mustafa
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