Welcome to Truth Treasures,, a monthly post where I feature goodness from around the web which I hope will be helpful to you, as well as some personal tidbits, and other treasures. I pray you will be blessed and God will be glorified.
This month highlights my favorite time of year: fall.
If grace was a color, it would be fall.
How can the most beautiful season be one of death? I ask myself as I sit on the shore of a meandering river and gasp at the spectacle of beauty that surrounds me.
Deep green and a multitude of orange and yellow, speckled with rich, dark red, knit a pearl-stitch tapestry that spreads across the highlands. The varied-coloured canvas rolls up the mountains, then cascades down toward the faded plains below. Light and shadow dance as a duo across the tapestry in short, scattered bursts. The steel sky peeks through cottony wisps, complementing the warm fall shades of the hills.
It’s indescribable, rich beyond measure, humbling, and takes my breath away.
Who are You that you are mindful of me? I ask myself as I think about how I was once a rebel against my Creator—the Creator of all this—wandering in a darkness I knew not. The old hymn resounds,
“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind, but now I see.”
Grace cascades down from heaven, without limit, all we need but cannot attain: undeserved forgiveness, mercy, love, goodness, kindness, eternal life in glory, and oh, so much more.
It’s indescribable, rich beyond measure, humbling, and takes my breath away.
Reading Nook:
On my reading stand:
- The Calvary Road: The Way of Personal Revival – Roy Hession
Children’s Bible Resources:
- ABC Collection – Simple Bible Texts for Tender Hearts to Memorize– This was a Christmas gift to my grandchildren last year when they were just babies; and very much treasured by their mama’s.
- ABC Collection – Bible Stories by Letter – Now that the grandkids are toddlers, I plan to add this one to the Christmas list.
Around the Web:
- Why The Leaves Fall – A new video released by The John 10:10 Project explains the fascinating science of tree foliage that results in the beauty of rich fall colors.
- Awaken Your Hunger – Glenna Marshall
- What if Psalm 1 Isn’t Actually About You? – Cindy Matson
- Justice Meets Mercy at the Cross – A devotional, Dial In Ministries
- O Great Redeemer – a song
Creative Corner:
- Write Like a Tree – Clinton Manley, Desiring God.
- An Invitation – Kristin Couch
Life Through My {Camera} Lens:
A Favorite Quote:
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“But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Eph. 2.4-10
The Light for My Path 