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God can do anything, you know – far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, His Spirit deeply and gently within us.~Ephesians 3:20-21 THE MESSAGE (emphasis mine) Catholic Church Atenas, Costa Rica – San Rafael Arcángel Parish …
Sometimes one of my photo books “just happens” and not as originally planned! 🙂 I now give a gift book to each of my favorite lodges each time I visit and no longer do custom books for the lodges, so I needed a new gift book (which other visitors to that lodge will enjoy). Plus …
Though I always go to the lodge that is closest to the volcano (and surrounded by the most forest!), this trip Christmas week was the first time the volcano was covered in clouds most of the time. The only clear day, all day, was Christmas Day, with clouds and rain all the rest of that …
Well – the ones I have taken the time to photograph in my normal activities of the last week or two. I failed to photograph a big one at the Alajuela Hospital and did not go to the Juan Santamaria Park for Alajuela’s biggest outdoor tree this year and the Atenas City Hall does not …
Evangelicals’ infallible new faith: The gospel of Trump By Christine Emba Columnist January 4, 2018 at 5:40 PM — Orange emphasis mine Jesus wept. Or maybe just rolled His eyes. On New Year’s Day, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. defended his unwavering support of President Trump with a thoroughly confused reading of the Gospel. …
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LifeWay VBS 2015 Theme Journey Off the Map, and yep! Parts of Costa Rica look like this! Remember, Jurassic Park was here! Some thought of Costa Rica with Avatar, but there are no blue people here! 🙂 I just read about the jungle theme “Journey Off the Map” and focus verse of Vacation Bible School at …
To live in a green world, absorbing both the oxygen and the green spirit is one of the greatest blessings of living in Costa Rica. I randomly picked these photos as representative of this spirit, though many others could have represented it just as well . . .
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. ~Proverbs 4:23 Yes, this blog started as a “reporting” of my experiences of living “Retired in Costa Rica” and the first few years have lots of “how to” or sharing my experiences of the big transition to a legal resident of Costa …
UNDER CONSTRUCTION or really “just begun.” I’m too busy most of my time to write like this while preferring to photograph nature, usually birds or butterflies here in Costa Rica! But occasionally “in the mood to write.” 🙂 Introduction The Merriam-Webster online dictionary says: “A saga is a long and complicated story or series of …
10 May 2022 – I am taking a free wpcourses.com online class “Intro to Blogging” provided free for all persons who maintain a WordPress Blog. One of the first things they tell me to do is laboriously work on the “Why” of my blog and then rewrite that reason every few months or years and …