Rivers of Living Water Part 2

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Last week I had the opportunity to take in some incredible beauty at Carlyle Lake, Illinois.  My family roasted marshmallows at sunset at a picnic spot that my husband’s family visited often in his childhood years.

As the sun went down, the beautiful backdrop to all that was around me became brighter and more glorious. All that was around me became dark.

We turned toward the light and I snapped some shots.

I didn’t have a tripid, so in order to get these shots I had to hold very still.  My family…

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Beyond the Nativity, A Four Week Devotional on the Incarnation, Week 3: The Manifestation, Day 2: Hunger, Thirst, Weariness and Sleep

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Matthew 4:1-4

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written,” ‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

John 19:28

28 “After this, Jesus, knowing…

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