And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That is a metaphor for our wretched lives and the hope in Christ. The light of His glory is visible. It is our safe haven. God is our refuge. We have to carry forward through the darkness of this world and the brambles we put in our paths. Turn not to the left or the right. Keep your eye on the prize. You wouldn't know it by looking at it but down in there is a path. Trust.
It's coming, be here before you know it, then after a month or 2 you'll be pining for summer all over again.
ReplyDeleteThere is an interval of about ten weeks, no snow, no mosquitos.
ReplyDeleteWhen it snows in central NM it lasts about 10 days at most? Just enough to remind me why I have snow.
That is a metaphor for our wretched lives and the hope in Christ. The light of His glory is visible. It is our safe haven. God is our refuge. We have to carry forward through the darkness of this world and the brambles we put in our paths. Turn not to the left or the right. Keep your eye on the prize. You wouldn't know it by looking at it but down in there is a path. Trust.
ReplyDeleteThis looks much like the Cathedral often seen from the other side on Vlad Tepes' blog header. Beautiful building wherever it is.
ReplyDeleteLooks like one of the buildings from the original Medal of Honor game.
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