Takes these incredible close up photos of snowflakes in his own backyard in Moscow Russia.
What Mr. Kljatov does with a macro-lens and nature is truly AMAZING!
12/2/13
Yes I am still alive!
Hello,
So yes it has been a while since I have written. A very long while.
Not because I have been empty-brained. No. On the contrary, I have been overflowing with thoughts I have on one hand been most eager to put down on paper while on the other hand I have been extremely hesitant to do so. OBVIOUSLY. Thus the day after day after day gone by without update. sigh.
Such the quandary I have found myself in.
I suppose it all "just hit me" as I was driving up the road the other day. I was talking to my best friend, Yeshua....about, well, a little of everything. I guess my whole life.
So many things going on in my life right now, ya know? Good things....all wonderfully, awesome, good things.
Of course, I can see (understand) how, many people might not "see" things the same way as "I" do. See everything that is happening in my life as a "wonderfully good" things. But then that is fine. (I am learning to accept this truth - that it is okay, that not everyone "understands I really truly am at peace with all the tragedy that has taken place in my life")
So anyway, as I was be-boppin' along with My Lord ALL OF A SUDDEN it just HIT ME! I saw the number of hits my blogs get everyday...(it may seem silly I know) but I actually saw a #...a very large #....and I realized (I think for the very first time) how many of my family and friends were actually reading what I am writing!
As much as I absolutely love my new family at Beth Messiah and all of my family at I have been blessed to have come into my life through out the years in various other church bodies - I suddenly became acutely aware of how transparent I was on here.
Not that I mind.
Being transparent.
I think there should be more transparency among the brethren. given the right circumstances.
However - I got to thinking about why it bothered me - and - I asked the Lord - and got some feed back from HIM.
This is what I came up with - I think it's pretty good stuff.
The reason I stopped writing on here - the reason I felt so uncomfortable.
Wasn't because of the hundreds of reads I get a day by strangers.
Nor was it because I have a problem with sharing my feelings. (I think we all know that to be a true statement - lol)
I discovered, after talking with the Lord about this at length, that, it was the fact that I was bearing a great deal of my soul to a good portion of people who I saw in my every day life. People who read my posts and flipped through my blogs. People who saw me enough to feel comfortable enough to believe they now "knew me well."...Just by reading about me and seeing me here on my blog.
But really don't "know me at all."
I felt slighted. Cheated out of ever having the privilege of getting to know those people.
Now I understand blogging is a "one way relationship".
So, no harm - no foul.
But, again....this is a strange new world in which we live....at least I am finding for me it is.
I love to write. I love to blog. I love the fact that it blesses all of you that it blesses!
But I love people in person even more! The Lord has brought me into a new place in life....He is stretching me...and it's NOT easy on me!
I am done with ONE WAY relationships.
So I am starting with this blog!
I will continue writing and blogging - just maybe not so personal? We'll see....
Let me know if you have anything you'd like me to write about!!
Leave a comment below!
I'd love to hear from you!
Love you all!!
Shalom
11/20/13
Thank You for ALL you do !
Rabbi Michael Wolf
L♥veland, Ohio
My Rabbi
By:Amy Colleen Klapp
My Rabbi is like
no other.
I've looked far
and wide and can see;
My Rabbi is like
no other.
Yet, he seems
familiar to me.
My Rabbi loves
without measure;
takes care of
his flock selflessly.
My Rabbi lives
what he teaches.
Gives grace to
all men equally.
My Rabbi gives
without ceasing.
He cares like I've never seen.
Staying up
nights for the brethren;
up before dawn,
on his knees.
My Rabbi is like
no other.
Every day he
amazes me.
But I can’t help
but wonder,
about the
familiarity.
Lord, you know
my Rabbi.
You created him
one of a kind.
Why does he seem
so familiar to me,
if he’s the only
one of his kind?
Your Rabbi, dear
child, is quite special.
He’s one of a
kind as you see.
The reason he
seems so familiar to you;
is because he’s
so much like me.
11/11/13
And My Lord said to me....
Expect the unexpected
I will bring forth all I have promised.
The words I have spoken over you, will not return unto me void, without accomplishing that which I have sent them forth to accomplish.
Behold
I am doing a "new" thing.
Will you not see it?
Keep your eyes focused on me, that you will see it come to pass.
Do not be distracted by man's ways.
For I am not a man; but GOD.
And "My" ways are NOT man's ways.
"Show me your ways O Lord."
I WILL show you my ways.
Seek my face...
and...
Behold the Lamb of God in all His Glory.
Following in HIS Footsteps
My Cup Truly Over Flows
*********************************************************************
And the old is made new.
"The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some people think of slowness; on the contrary, he is patient with you; for it is not his purpose that anyone should be destroyed but that everyone should turn from his sins."
2 Peter 1:3-2
10/26/13
I was pursuing through my stuff and came upon these and BURST out into laughter!!
I am sure you can see why!
I JUST HAD to share!!
Family Photos!!!
THIS is where I LOST IT!
I am sure can see WHY?
My daughters?
Perfectly normal
(well in public anyway ;)
Can you TELL who MY JOKERS are in the family?
If not yet - let me give you another little hint.
RUNS in the Family - IT DOES
Driscoll line
THIS would be THEIR Grampa Jim and Great Uncle Jack!
This is Their Uncle Mark, Aunt Bobbi and Grampa Jim!
So you See They really had no choice!!
Guess WHO?
10/25/13
10/17/13
One of the benefits to having your own BLOG is...
Being able to
Say WHAT you want
WHEN you want
To
WHO you want.
(for the most part anyway)
and
Right now -I want to say ~
I
Miss You
Jacob!!!
10/12/13
For my friend and sister Lizzy -(And everyone else who needs a touch from God!)
Guess what?
He'll Do It Again!
You may be down and feel God has somehow forgotten
You are faced with circumstances
That you can't get through
Tonight it just seems there's now way out
In natural you could just go under
But God has proven time and time again
He'll take care of you
You are faced with circumstances
That you can't get through
Tonight it just seems there's now way out
In natural you could just go under
But God has proven time and time again
He'll take care of you
He'll do it again
He'll do it again
You just take a look where you are now
And where you've been
He'll see hasn't He always come through
For you
He's the same God has always been
You may not know how,
You may not know when
But He'll do it again
He knows the things that you're going through
He knows how you're hurting
He's been there and
He understands how your heart
Has been broken in two
He's the God of the stars
The sun and the seas
That God is your Father
Tonight He can calm the storm
And He'll find some way to fix this for you
He'll do it again
He'll do it again
You just take a look where you are now
And where you've been
He'll see hasn't He always come through
For you
He's the same God has always been
You may not know how,
You may not know when
But He'll do it again
10/11/13
I saw THIS today and it made me cry
This was sitting on the floor next to my chase lounge in my bedroom. I opened it up and found this beautiful blue glass flower.
I love you Tim! And THANK YOU!
I could NOT ask for a better man to wed my precious Kelly!
You are such an incredible blessing to everyone who has ever had any contact with you!!!
Your folks are VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE!!!
And VERY BLESSED TO CALL YOU SON!
Thank you for calling me Mom!
P.S.
After January 11 2014 though - enough of the formalities !! It's "Mum" okay?
10/10/13
Who Will Go?
WHO Will Go?
Who will go
and find my lost sheep?
Who will go
and who will seek?
Who is willing
to leave the prestige?
For canyons
and crevasses to return them to me?
Who of my
under-shepherds will be like me?
And leave the
many for the one you can’t see?
Who will tend
to the ones who've run off?
Are there any
of you willing to count the cost?
Many are your
words in your houses built by men.
Now is the
time to let them rule your hearts.
Go!
Find my lost
sheep and bring them in!
"I will give you shepherds
after my own heart,
and they will feed you
with knowledge and understanding."
Jeremiah 3:15
after my own heart,
and they will feed you
with knowledge and understanding."
Jeremiah 3:15
10/9/13
Blessed is He Who Walks With the Master
Blessed is the man who fears The Lord, who finds great delight in His commands.
His children will be mighty on the land.
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
Even in darkness light dawns for the upright,
for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.
Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely, who conducts his affairs with justice.
Surely he will never be shaken;
A righteous man will be rembered forever.
He will have no fear of bad news;
His heart is steadfast; trusting on The Lord.
His heart is secure, he will have no fear;
In the end he will look in triumph on his foes.
He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor, his righteousness endures forever, his horn/will be lifted high in honor..
The wicked man will see and be vexed,
he will Nash his teeth and waste away;
The longs of the wicked will come to nothing.
Psalm 112
9/20/13
9/13/13
If I were the Devil - Paul Harvey
This is Paul Harvey's "original" version from 1965
1965
This was originally broadcast in 1965
wow
and here we are in 2013!
Nuff said.
9/10/13
9/6/13
Life or Death - Your Choice
It really IS -That Simple
“When the time arrives that all these things have come upon you, both the blessing and the curse which I have presented to you; and you are there among the nations to which Adonai your God has driven you; then, at last, you will start thinking about what has happened to you;2 and you will return to Adonai your God and pay attention to what he has said, which will be exactly what I am ordering you to do today — you and your children, with all your heart and all your being.
3 At that point, Adonai your God will reverse your exile and show you mercy; he will return and gather you from all the peoples to which Adonai your God scattered you.
4 If one of yours was scattered to the far end of the sky, Adonai your God will gather you even from there; he will go there and get you.
5 Adonai your God will bring you back into the land your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it; he will make you prosper there, and you will become even more numerous than your ancestors.
6 Then Adonai your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your children, so that you will love Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being, and thus you will live.
7 Adonai your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hated and persecuted you; 8 but you will return and pay attention to what Adonai says and obey all his mitzvot which I am giving you today.
9 Then Adonai your God will give you more than enough in everything you set out to do — the fruit of your body, the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your land will all do well; for Adonai will once again rejoice to see you do well, just as he rejoiced in your ancestors.
10 “However, all this will happen only if you pay attention to what Adonai your God says, so that you obey his mitzvot and regulations which are written in this book of the Torah, if you turn to Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being. 11 For this mitzvah which I am giving you today is not too hard for you, it is not beyond your reach. 12 It isn't in the sky, so that you need to ask, ‘Who will go up into the sky for us, bring it to us and make us hear it, so that we can obey it?’ 13 Likewise, it isn't beyond the sea, so that you need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea for us, bring it to us and make us hear it, so that we can obey it?’
14 On the contrary, the word is very close to you — in your mouth, even in your heart; therefore, you can do it!
15 “Look! I am presenting you today with, on the one hand, life and good; and on the other, death and evil — 16 in that I am ordering you today to love Adonai your God, to follow his ways, and to obey his mitzvot, regulations and rulings ; for if you do, you will live and increase your numbers; and Adonai your God will bless you in the land you are entering in order to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, if you refuse to listen, if you are drawn away to prostrate yourselves before other gods and serve them; 18 I am announcing to you today that you will certainly perish; you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Yarden to enter and possess.
19 “I call on heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have presented you with life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life, so that you will live, you and your descendants, 20 loving Adonai your God, paying attention to what he says and clinging to him — for that is the purpose of your life! On this depends the length of time you will live in the land Adonais wore he would give to your ancestors Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.”
In the New Covenant We are Told By Messiah Yeshua Himself
When asked as recorded in Matthew 22
"Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?"
He answered,
"You are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.' This is the greatest and most important mitzvah. And the second is similar to it,
'You are to love your neighbor as yourself.'
All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot."
9/4/13
What's it it really all about anyway?
As we enter this season of Rosh Hashanah, also Biblically known as "The Feast of Trumpets"
Rosh Hashanah begins a ten day period known as "the Day of Awe" that take us into "Yom Kippur"
The single most Holy Day of the Year - for the Jewish people.
The "Day of Atonement".
Still to this day Jewish people around the globe will take time to fast and pray and reflect on their life. All through the "Days of Awe". Seeking reconciliation with G-d and with other's in their life.
As a believer in Messiah - these High Holy Holidays are so much more glorious to me!
Knowing that Yeshua - is The Lamb of G-d - slain before the foundation of the world.
That Messiah has come once for all (Isaiah 53) and we are but awaiting His second triumphant return - THIS - gives me such a glorious feeling inside my heart and spirit I can not explain! A hope! The Apostle Paul writes about it in the new covenant - about the Messiah being HIS hope of Glory!
I was sitting here in prayer this morning and the Isaiah 53 would not leave me - so I read it.
What a perfect way to start the Days of Awe !
Then I started to get get it......
Why is it that we (G-ds people) can't just forgive others as Yeshua forgave and continues to forgive us?
Here are a few scripture that popped into my head.
"If you love me (Yeshua) you will keep my commands..." John 14:15
"Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me;..." John 14:21
and....in short...what does Messiah command?
John 13:34
"A new command I give you; Love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another....."
Wow - I don't know about you but those alone are pretty powerful scriptures in and of themselves and I just took three scriptures of hundreds of them to choose - pretty much telling us to do the same thing.
I am most confident every believer has heard these three I have chosen at least one time or another.
I know I have.
If we go a little further in John 13 ch verse 35 Messiah continues to say,..
"By this (loving each other like I loved you) everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. (like I loved you)"
**** I would to stop here and draw the readers attention to a few things***
As humans - have you ever noticed our need for justification? Just to be able to forgive someone?
It's seems also very important to for us to have stipulations and in many cases boundaries when we forgive.
Have you ever thought about that?
The whole part about forgiveness and our need as human beings to feel justified and stipulate it's necessity.
Why is this?
Why do we feel that we can only forgive if.........?
or
We will only forgive but we will never forget....?
And then we tell ourselves G-d is okay with it?
Ummmm - No?....That is right. No!
G-d is not okay with it. You can reference the scriptures above if you like...
"A new command I give you; Love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another. "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (Like I love YOU as I just mentioned in my last sentence........"I" added this part to make my point)
As I sit here this morning with Messiah - sitting in Awe and reflecting on all that HE had done for me -I can't help but be amazed at my audacity to think I can "fell I have a right" to hold a grudge. Place a boundary. Stipulate in ANY way forgiveness.
I have no justification. I have no right to stipulate.
As he has forgiven. I am commanded to love others as HE LOVED ME.
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
Messiah Yeshua laid down his life for me in thee most horrific manner, suffering ways I can't imagine, for me, while I was yet a sinner....forgiving me...AND FORGETTING.....casting my sin into the sea of forgetfulness. As far as the East is from the West!
I have NO RIGHT - nor does anyone who wishes to call themselves a disciple of Messiah - to love any less.
I have been challenged this Rosh Hashanah
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
4
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7
He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8
By oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.[b]
9
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11
After he has suffered,
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g]
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)