Drew Carey is right in saying Americans celebrate a lot of holidays which have nothing to do with the Bible. Many Americans run high with the pagan Winter Holiday and consider it the major Christian festival having a Nordic Santa flying through the sky to bring presents to their children. they also think Jesus Christ his birthday would be on what they do not seem to know is the birthday of the goddess of light.
Did the Americans ever question where Santa Claus came into the picture by Jesus birth? And why celebrate somebodies birthday months after he was born, because Jesus was born in what is the Autumn-time in America. (October 17, 4BCE) and what have fur-trees to do with Bethlehem or the nativity of Christ?
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
After a very warm beginning of Autumn, having temperatures going up to 17° Celsius, we got literal and other storms from last weekend onwards. Today the temperatures fell back to normal and we got the literal white snow whilst the red cold blanket was further enrolled bringing the country to a terror alert 4, giving us the impression the country could as well soon declare us at war. That scares many people who in the region Brussels were also been asked to stay indoors and to have all shopping centres closed.
Though we should look outside and go into nature where the shouting colours can bring us back at peace. For sure a big change will take place this year and after 70 years no war in Belgium it could well be that Autumn might have come over that idea of peace and tranquillity.
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To remember
glorious red, yellow + orange of the seasons’ leaves = message of death +> Winter is coming
season that looks forward to barrenness and bleakness
autumn reminding in inescapable colors change is taking place =>lead to new growth + life = All paths falling into place.
Isn’t it funny how we (I) wax on and on about autumn? Behind the glorious red, yellow and orange of the seasons’ leaves is a message of death. Winter is coming. When I stop and think about it, I remember of all the ways I run from change in my own life. And yet, I love and always will love the changing seasons. Even-especially- the one that looks forward to barrenness and bleakness.
It’s like autumn is reminding me in inescapable colors that change is taking place, right under my nose. It may be through a place that feels like death at times. But I can trust that it will lead to new growth and life. All these paths are falling into place.
And in the meantime, for the first time, I get to relish this season. For what it is, and for what comes after.
km Salvatore from Western New York lives on the Erie Canal where there’s always something going on, in any number of the towns scattered along the water way. He also lives between 2 Great Lakes where also there’s always something to shoot.
The park and the wall on his photo’s reminds us of the park in Tervuren near Brussels.
In his surroundings he knew to capture the vivid life Autumn also can bring.
Storm came over Europe and let us feel again why this season is called Autumn. Still today it is warmer than usual but we have the rain and wind to accompany us and even break our umbrellas. But it does not break our souls, for the warm glue of the changing colours overpowers us.
Autumn fields, Leefdaal, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, European Union
Considered the last month of autumn it looks like only now the season got from the ground swept up by the first heavy winds.
Some may never been a fan of this November or Autumn month. For lots of people November is the month of the dead, and used allusively with reference to the short, damp, cold, or foggy days regarded as characteristic of the northern hemisphere. For those fearing the cold winds of Canada and the warm breezes of the South fighting with each other, around the Great Lakes, may find themselves left in such misery. For those who are having migraines regularly they very well know when it is going to storm or when snow is going to come. That is not a very pleasant feeling and if one has to work it is a very (damn) nuisance.
We have entered a season which may be even more unique than Spring Season. We also may see more different shades of colours than in Spring.
It should not make us sad but should get us up onto our feet, going out to show the winds that we are stronger than they. Though I do agree I am not an hero to go out in the bad weather, and was it not for the dog, I perhaps waited sometimes a bit longer before having a stroll.
I am not a good photographer, so for looking at nice photos I would recommend to go and look at Cindy Knoke and Chae H. Bae their site and some other photographic WordPress sites. But this is the time I use my eyes to linger and to bring a fantasy world to life. No wonder so many writers found enough inspiration in this season and for crime or who-dun-it authors this season is a gold mine.
Aurora borealis by permus by Chae H. Bae
After the Summer holiday most people are back at work and the retired folks who took their Summervacation at a sunny place somewhere further from home, it is time now to sit at home cosy warm and enjoying some music, film or documentary or entertaining program on television. Hopefully they also will take some time to enjoy the biggest life show on earth. The ever changing colours the big kaleidoscope of nature world.
Behind the glorious red, yellow and orange of the seasons’ leaves many may find a message of death, but often they forget it is all a message of an abundant life where water was taken from deep under the ground and the warmth of the sun was enjoyed and had caressing the tree-trunk, making it grow and glow.
Trees are telling us after all that sun and pleasure it is time to meditate on what went on and on where to go. They are calling to come to a stand still in our rushing world which does not seem to have much space for the wonders of nature. This time the red and yellow are the screaming colours which ask for attention whilst the wind shouts it out load. We can’t ignore the call of our surrounding nature.
At certain places where there are still enough trees in Europe, the elk makes sure that we can hear it is time to find a renewal of intimacy. It is time to come closer to each other again. Be it by the fireplace or by some extra light in the darkness of this season.
Winter is coming. More and more older people are running away from it and going to spend their Wintertime in the South of Europe. But the coldest season of the year does not frighten many youngsters who love to go skying or snowboarding. For many the “old man wrapped in cloak” may bring an invitation to go outdoors again after all the storms and heavy rain of the Autumn months. After that season that looks forward to barrenness and bleakness, the white eiderdown will attract many to go out again to brave the cold.
At moments this season may also be a moment to be in tears for seeing how certain North Americans boast so much they killed a huge bull elk.
A new video with a recent elk hunt in Utah shows how hard work this work may be and how it pays off for some.
From the video maker:
“After years and years of trying, plenty of opportunities and hundreds of miles hiked, I was finally able to fill my over the counter, general season, archery elk tag. This has proven to be one of the most challenging hunts I have ever been on. He is my biggest bull to date by a country mile and I couldn’t be happier with him. Not a lot of action in this video, it has mostly my reaction to the incredible situation I found myself in. All Kuiu, all the time.” {Video: Bowhunting for Bull Elk in Utah}
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Dan Agnew killed a bull in Columbia Co., Wash., after making an impressive 250-yard shot
I agree to be able to have enough winter-meals prepared, for man living in this world, we need hunters and we have to agree some may be hunted. And meat from animals living in the wild always taste better than from farm-animals. As long as those people who want elk antlers to hang on a wall, hunt respectfully for those forest kings it is acceptable and will keep some balance in the forest as well.
We are so closed in, that those animals able to run in the wild, may remind us what man has sacrificed for more comfort and material gadgets they do not always need. So many people have become a slave of their materialism they even do not notice it any more. Now the gusty winds are calling them to remind them that there is life there outside they are missing.
The swaying trees whistle and tell the stories of the past Summer but also of the things to come, calling animals to shelter for the coming Winter.
With all the bloodshed in Paris we perhaps could loose sight or track of an other changing element, nature “dying softly” to prepare for a new life, a new Spring in a few months.
Let these beautiful photographs bring some soothing to the morals, bring calmness and bring peace to our runaway beaten heads.
In Belgium the last few days, in day time, have shown higher temperatures (17°C) than normal for the time of year, but the leaves colouring and falling off tell us that it is really autumn.
As fall descends in Yellowstone and the Tetons,
painting the trees golden-yellow,
the elk are rutting,
bugling,
and posturing.
They become so exhausted by all this effort, they bugle while resting!
The calves,
and does,
provide a peaceful contrast!
Cheers to you from the Tetons in the fall~
Abscission: Thesheddingofleaves,flowers,orfruitsfollowingtheformationoftheabscissionzone or actofcuttingoff;suddentermination.
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The separation of a leaf, fruit, or other part from the body of a plant. It involves the formation of an abscission zone, at the base of the part, within which a layer of cells (abscission layer) breaks down. This process is suppressed so long as sufficient amounts of auxin, a plant growth substance, flow from the part through the abscission zone. However, if the auxin flow declines, for example due to injury or ageing, abscission is activated and the part becomes separated. {A Dictionary of Biology | 2004 }
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In this writing:
a story told in the ephemeral nature of colour.
sound of change – rustling and rain of leaves
On brighter autumn day, sunshine moving through leaves = illuminating as enlightenment.
Fluidity in time and space, the flow of the circle = part of the cyclical design
Nature shows us tangible, real-time change
Energy = always moving.
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water turned to acid, acrid and frothing
foam on the shore now rabid spittle
infecting those who approach in curiosity
covering their skin with rash and pockmarks
blemishes that won’t wash off, won’t wash off
until they scrub their skin with bristles
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and peel off our fingernails
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against our dust-covered calloused feet.
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I see it, a story told in the ephemeral nature of color. It’s impossible not to look, but I close my eyes, and listen. It’s the sound of change. Autumn calling out in its rustling and rain of leaves when the wind blows. I want to remember it. Not just see it, but feel it. On a fall day enveloped in grey mist, a flash of red leaves will interrupt the fog, burning through the space. On a brighter autumn day, sunshine moving through the leaves is as illuminating as enlightenment.
Change is forever our status. Fluidity in time and space, the flow of the circle. We don’t think about change, but sometimes something shakes you into awareness: a birth, a death, or the brief and brilliant leaves coming loose from their branches.
This is part of the cyclical design. Trees are actively cutting off their leaves in a survival…
Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, may look a paradise. After the richness of the Summer, Autumn presents its magic colours. The trees want to tell us stories and their leaves write the words in the air while they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.
No doubt we can see here that Prince Edward Island is a photographer’s dream.
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Gulf of St. Lawrence, Prince Edward Island
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Sophie and I are heading out for an autumn ramble. Why don’t you come along for a Friday Fave Five outing? It won’t be hard to count blessings on a beautiful October afternoon on PEI.
1. The Island in autumn is a photographer’s dream. The fields and woods are like paintings, with brushstrokes of bright gold, deep green, brilliant crimson, fiery orange and rusty brown against the canvas sky.
2. There are so many backwoods roads to discover on the Island. I head to a favourite one nearby and park the car.
I walk slowly, shuffling and kicking the leaves, just like I used to do as a child. Remember that?
3. There’s a trail leading off the road into the woods. I take it. Trails have a compelling lure for me – where do they go? What’s around that bend? I can never resist.
They sing their dearest songs—
He, she, all of them—yea,
Treble and tenor and bass,
And one to play;
With the candles mooning each face …
Ah, no; the years O!
How the sick leaves reel down in throngs!
They clear the creeping moss—
Elders and juniors—aye,
Making the pathways neat
And the garden gay;
And they build a shady seat…
Ah, no; the years, the years;
See the white storm-birds wing across!
They are blithely breakfasting all—
Men and maidens—yea,
Under the summer tree,
With a glimpse of the bay,
While pet fowl come to the knee…
Ah, no; the years O!
And the rotten rose is ript from the wall.
They change to a high new house,
He, she, all of them—aye,
Clocks and carpets and chairs
On the lawn all day,
And brightest things that are theirs…
Ah, no; the years, the years;
Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs.
(Thomas Hardy)
Written five years after his wife Emma Hardy’s death in 1912.
“Thomas Hardy,” oil on panel, by the Scottish painter and engraver William Strang. 17 in. x 15 in. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Thomas Hardy (c. 1840–1900) English novelist, poet, and dramatist who unites the Victorian and modern eras.
Wrote a.o. the novels: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), and Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)
Poems:Wessex Poems (1898), Poems of the Past and Present (1902), Satires of Circumstance (1914), Selected Poems (1916), Moments of Vision (1917), Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922), Human Shows (1925) and published after his death: Winter Words (1928).
Watercolour painting inspired by the Thomas Hardy novel “Under the Greenwood Tree” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Psalm 32:1,2 “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered…” Have you ever done something very wrong and shameful; and wished that you were let off without punishment and without being exposed? If you think of what all you have done, right from childhood till now; I am sure there will be […]
Matthew 7:6-11 g) Giving and neighbor love || Luke 11:9-13 MT7:6 “You should not give[1] the ‘Holy’ to the ‘dogs.’ Nor throw your ‘pearls’ before ‘swine.’[2] So they never trample them underfoot and they turn and attack you.[3] MT7:7 Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and doors will open.[4] MT7:8 […]
Chapter seven: Judging and Proving Matthew 7:1-11 – The Nazarene’s Commentary on Neighbor Love Continued Matthew 7:1-5: f) Judgment and neighbor love || Luke 6:41, 42 MT7:1 “You,[1] condemn not,[2] that you are not condemned.[3] MT7:2 For you will be judged with that ‘judgment’ by which you are judging![4] MT7:3 Why look at the straw-speck[5] […]
When on holiday probably you may meet different people on places where you have not been before and where you shall not come again soon. It are places where probably nobody knows you. When you are there it is with your attitude, your example, the way you treat others around you, how you act and […]
Most of the time of the year people have an excuse that they have no time because they have to do this or that for work. Work often gets the first place and next comes the time to do the shopping for the household-duties and cooking. After a full day of work, cooking and eating […]
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Er zijn een heel pak mensen die zich Christen noemen maar niet echt de ware Christus navolgen. Velen van hem aanbidden ook niet de God van die Christus, want dat was een Eeuwige Geest die niet door mensen kon gezien worden, terwijl zij Jezus tot God verheven hebben alhoewel Jezus duidelijk te kennen geeft dat […]
Toen de eerste mens in de val van de verleiding was gevallen, voorzag de Goddelijke Schepper de mogelijkheid om een tweede Adam te laten bewijzen dat de mens zich wel Gods geboden kan houden en naar de Wil van God kan leven. Door de verkeerde keuze van de eerste mensen was de relatie tussen God […]
Kan het losgeld duidelijker worden beschreven dan het hier is gedaan? Adam, bekroond met de glorie van de perfecte mensheid, een beetje lager dan de engelen en met de eer om heerser te zijn over de werken van Gods handen, die alles verliest door de zonde, en zijn nageslacht deelt het verlies. De uit de […]
De Overeenkomstige prijs Goddelijke Rechtvaardigheid vereist de straf voor ongehoorzaamheid, en kan de schuldigen niet opruimen. Wij moeten weten dat de Allerhoogste Schepper van hemel en aarde een barmhartige, meedogende en ontfermende God is die lankmoedig is of Zich niet snel boos maakt, en met vertoon van veel geduld, groot in goedertierendheid en trouw is. […]
Sommigen hebben moeite gevonden om te begrijpen hoe Adam stierf op de dag dat hij van de verboden fruit at. Hij stierf niet binnen vierentwintig uur van zijn zonde, want we lezen in Gen. 5: 5, “En al de dagen die Adam leefde waren negenhonderd en dertig jaar; En hij stierf. ‘ Deze moeilijkheid is […]
When we are looking for some one for having a good or close relationship with, we can assure you the best one to have a good relationship with is the Most High Divine Creator God Who made it possible for you to be here in the first place. Having a relationship with Him is a […]
When wondered about a godhead and having come to the conclusion that there must be a Divine Creator or Supreme Being that surpasses all human and animal beings, we may question if it is possible for us to have a relationship with that Higher Being. What does it take to begin a relationship with God? […]
In March 2016 we created on Weebly a website to talk about man’s relationship with God. After we had done all the placing of pages and came to the contact form and placing of a Gravatar for the replies, we were brought to WordPress where we not only could choose a Gravatar but also got […]
Throughout history of mankind there have many groups of people who worshipped a triple deity (sometimes referred to as threefold, tripled, triplicate, tripartite, triune or triadic, or as a trinity). Those people who worshipped such tri-une god all claim they only worship one deity. Such deities that are worshipped as one are common throughout world mythology; the number three has a long history of mythical associations. Carl Jung considered the arrangement of deities into triplets an archetype in the history of religion. But the God of the Bible is clear about Which God has to be worshipped, not a more headed, be it an eightfold, three-une or bi-one god, but only the God of Abraham, Which is only One God of gods.
Find out in this article and its links how Jews, Christians and Muslims may have been influenced by the pagan gods and false teachings and how they have to separate them from such pagan teachings.
You may wonder if there really exist a God. You have all reason to question His existence and to check if you are feeling right or thinking the right way. We are even requested to examine our own faith. It is important to know what you want to believe, what you want to take for […]
Recent Posts by: Immanuel Verbondskind - עמנואל קאָווענאַנט קינד
The centuries-old five-pointed geometric figure is most known as a symbol of the Jewish community. In this article we will outline the interpretation as well as the possible point of view for us today.
After the wrong choice and action of the first human beings the elohim had no other choice than to bring over man the curse He had warned them for. But out of love for His creatures He also provided straight away a solution against the curse of death and gave man a second chance.
In the second and third chapter of the Bereshith (the book of the beginning) we find that God, Who had made man in His image, brought a helper for the ish or man so that they could live together in a bond of union, related to the other living beings and to the Most High Elohim, in a state we now call marriage.
About the origin or source of evil there are many discussions. In this article I look at the time where badness entered in the world of man and where we have to look for the source of evil or badness.
Nature and everything in it was in a perfect natural peaceful balance. By the wrong choice made by the first human beings there came a crack in perfection and in the relationship between the Creator and other creatures.
In dit artikel kijken wij hoe de Elohim sprak of zijn Woord uitte en dingen tot ontstaan kwamen en hoe er over een geocentrisch heelal wordt gesproken, waarin “leven” als een wonderbaarlijk verschijnsel van het “zichzelf bewegen” wordt gebracht en waar er telkens bepaalde soorten zijn die weer leven kunnen voort brengen.
De eeuwenoude vijfpuntige geometrische figuur is het meest gekend geraakt als symbool voor de Joodse gemeenschap. In dit artikel overschouwen wij even de interpretatie alsook het mogelijke oogpunt voor ons vandaag.
The Word of God tells us how the first living souls became tricked by their own wrong thoughts and fell for the pleasing of their eyes and by their disobedience to God got punishments over them and got being banished from the Garden of Eden.
When listening to certain Christians we only can have the impression they do not understand the Hebrew way of talking and do not see how often idioms, parables and allegory are used. Too often they take words as names and texts literally when they are not meant as such.
After having looked at Adam we cannot pass his helper Eve. It was she who brought the man to follow her idea and to ignore God’s Wish not to eat from the Tree of moral, with as consequence that they got knowledge of good and evil and came to learn pain and death.
Doorheen de kerkgeschiedenis is er steeds een strijd geleverd tussen politiek en macht en heeft men meerdere pogingen ondernomen om de ware leer van Jezus Christus te verdraaien en aan te passen aan plaatselijke gebruiken.
Er is een tijd gekomen dat mensen keuzes zullen moeten gaan maken en moeten beslissen of zij bij de Ware gelovigen in God willen behoren of bij de wereld met haar eigen leerstellingen.
Lots of people, in particular English speaking people, do forget that in several languages “Allah” is the word being used for The God as well as for other gods or a god. Sometimes it seems that English speakers want everyone using the English names and tittles like they use them. Originally being an Arabic word […]
Veel mensen, met name de Engels sprekenden, vergeten dat er in verschillende talen “Allah” als woord gebruikt wordt voor Dé God, alsook voor andere goden of een god aan te duiden. Soms lijkt het wel of Engelstaligen willen dat iedereen de Engelse tittels en namen gebruikt. Oorspronkelijk een Arabisch woord zijnde dat werd overgenomen in […]
The Divine Creator Allah the Exalted in might provides information about the total encompassing nature of His divine decree and pre-ordainment, “No calamity befalls on the earth or in yourselves” and this is comprehensive of the encompassing nature of the calamities which afflict creation, whether of good or evil, that all of them are written […]
De Goddelijke Schepper Allah de Almachtige geeft informatie over de totale allesomvattend aard van Zijn goddelijke decreet en pre-ordinatie, “Er gebeurt geen ongeluk op aarde of in uzelf” en dit is uitgebreid van de allesomvattende aard van de rampen die de schepping teisteren, of het nu goed of kwaad is, dat ze allemaal zijn geschreven […]
Continuing on my 2nd and 3rd question and my article on From Guestwriters and on “Looking for answers on the question Is there a God” in case we do have to assume there is a god or gods we should wonder what or whom that god or gods may be.
die onverwagse oorbelle die onverwagse pienk rokkie die onverwagse profetiese woorde die onverwagse hart oopmaak die onverwagse lagbuie die onverwagse kuier gisteraand die onverwagse gedig in my hande die onverwagse blydskap in my hart she let go she let go. without a thought or a word, she let go. she let […]
Sometimes you just need to talk to a four-year-old and an 84-year-old to understand life again. (Kristen Butler) I have been in a tug of war to write this article. It is easy to write when you have worked through your feelings, or when time has passed and healing has taken place. At this […]
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God created living things to succeed not to fail. For this reason, he put in each living thing a mechanism to help it succeed. It is an inbuilt-success mechanism. This inbuilt success mechanism enables plants to function. A plant has roots, a stem and leaves. This mechanism tells the roots that the plant needs […]
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