Canoe Adventure 09

Adventure's Unlimited is a neat place just north of Milton, Fl that has a pretty nice setup for canoeing, tubing and kayaking. Dave & Yvette are visiting for the weekend so we went off on an adventure.

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Coldwater Creek

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Choices.....we all have them!

Did you notice God today?

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Did you recognize Gods presence today?

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Did you appreciate your interaction with Gods creation today?

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Did you reflect on the fact that you are created in God's image?

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Did you talk with God today?

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Now go back and read each of the above questions one more time pausing to reflect momentarily on each question. It is so terribly easy to allow the habits, routines and traditions of our lives rule over us. How many times have you gone about your day and never contemplated one much less all of the questions above? How many days have you woken up to a new day and allowed yourself to be a unthinking slave to your routines? Are we unthinking robots following our programming or are we are wonderfully created beings with a free will and the ability to choose?

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Now ask yourself the following questions which are very similar to the original questions above but which ask a potentially more important question. Why?

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Why did/didn't you notice God today?

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Why did/didn't you recognize Gods presence today?

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Why did/didn't you appreciate your interaction with Gods creation today?

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Why did/didn't you reflect on the fact that you are created in God's image?

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Why did/didn't you talk with God today?

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Grace & Peace

Life's a Beach

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

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(Emma, Madison, Hayden, Quinn, George, Katie & just where is Maggie?)

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(Katie & Matt in the red not pink shorts)

Independence Day

"Direction not intention determines your destination."

-Andy Stanley

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Signers of the Declaration of Independence

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The quote above is from a teaching series by Andy Stanley of the North Point Community Church. It is an excellent series concerning the premise that our actions dictate the pathways our lives take and ultimatley our destinations. It is not our intentions, ideas, nor our words. Intentions not acted upon are worthless, ideas not shared and discussed are of little value, and words not spoken or, written cannot inspire or encourage.

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I am greatful for all of the men and women of Colonial America and especially the signers of the Declaration of Indepence who choose to act rather than to sit idly by and through their actions set the colonists on a path towards a new type of government.

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WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness