Sunday Words of Encouragment March 21, 2010

Our Pastor gave a splendid message today entitled "The Temple of Protection." In short he reminded us that God not only builds a wall of fire to protect us, He is in the Wall of Fire. Our safety is not found in the absence of danger (financial, physical or spiritual danger), but our safety, in all times of trouble, is found in the presence of God.

This song with ballet dance too is for Spring!!
Even though we still have rain and snow, there is hope in Spring. Enjoy!

A Verse for today:

Zechariah 2:5  NIV (Speaking of the City of Jerusalem)

And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,' declares the LORD, 'and I will be its glory within.'

Today I praised and acknowledged that God has all things under His control.

Happy Spring! The Garden Blooms!

I always thought Spring started March 21st but the calendar says March 20.

Happy Spring everyone.

I missed my Monthly Garden Bloom Posts on the 15th the past three months due to extreme business.  I decided to post the pictures here so you can get a feel for our nice North Florida weather.  It has been a bit colder than usual this year!
January 15 pictures:

The Chrysanthiums were surviving

as were this red berry plant - not sure what it is called.

The geranium and kalanchoe

outside my office bit the dust 

between the lack of water and

the freezing temperatures.

February 12 it snowed!

Finally in March, with lots of rain, 

the flowers are beginning to bloom again!

I hope it starts to warm up for everyone and that you have a beautiful Spring!

Winner of 256 Followers Contest!

 A BIG CONGRATULATIONS 

goes to LUCKY #8

I will e-mail Mark at his gmail and hope he gets it. :o)
Thanks again to all my followers!  Big group hug!

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Another Challenge! Read Your Name Challenge

This is being hosted here by Victoria of  Phantom Inkheart.

The rules are pretty simple and I can certainly manage this one.  Of course one of these days I need to get posts set up for each of the challenges I am doing this year....yes in my spare (choke) time!

Using your first name, or blogger name, or your pets name, or even your favorite literary character's name; whichever you like, choose books with first title letters that spell out your name. (Audio books and eBooks are also okay.) Such as my name: Martha. the first book's title would start with the letter M, then the next book title begins with A, etc.  For fun I will use MarthaE.
Easy Peasy!

Since I am currently reading/listening to and enjoying Marriage and Other Acts of Charity I wonder if that can count as M or if I should start with a new book that starts with M.  What do you think?

Winners of Movie Trivia

I guess we don't have too many movie buffs!  Some of these were pretty easy!
 The movies that the quotes came from are in red.

1.  "They never call, they never write."

While You Were Sleeping

2.  "We'll do that!"

Galaxy Quest

3.  "100% pure old fashioned homegrown."

The Matrix

4.  "Don't worry. I've done this before...once."
Jumanji

5.  "We're sending someone in to negotiate."

The Fifth Element

6.  "I'd die for you."

Robin Hood

7.  "She's in good hands."
Absolute Power Cindy and Paige both answered with Staying Alive so I gather it is in that movie too!

8.  "The secret's in the sauce."
Fried Green Tomatoes

9.  " What am I supposed to do? Walk around with their little corpses stuck to my finger nails?"
Overboard

10.  "And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!"
Groundhog Day

The winners are:

Cheryl got them all right, if I concede her answer for #7.  She gets to pick a book from the Friday Picks and a download from eTreasures Publishing.

 AND

LCD Text Generator at TextSpace.net

Paige gets to choose a book from the Friday Pick list.