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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearin...

Landscape in the Riesengebirge 1810-1811 View of a Harbor 1815-1816 The Marketplace in Greifswald 1818 Chalk Cliffs on Rügen c. 1818 The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog c. 1818 On a Sailing Ship 1818-1820 Drifting Clouds c. 1820 Meadows near Greifswald 1820-1822 Moonrise over the Sea c. 1821 Riverside in Fog / Elbe Ship in the Early Morning Fog c. 1821 The Times of Day: The Morning 1821-1822 The Times of Day: The Midday 1821-1822 Evening at the River /  Lonely House in the Pine Forest 1820 / 1825 Village Landscape in Morning Light (The Lone Tree) 1822 Morning in the Mountains c. 1822-1823 Rocky Ravine in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains 1822-1823 Uttewalder Grund c. 1825 The Cemetery Gate (The Churchyard) 1826-1827 Boats in the Harbour at Evening c. 1828 Plowed Field c. 1830 Ruins of the Oybin (Dre...

Lilias Trotter was born 164 years ago from the date of this post. She was an English painter and missionary who lived from 1853 to 1928. John Ruskin, a well-known 19th century art critic, said that she had the potential to be "England's greatest living painter." But she gave up this possibility when, in 1888, she traveled to North Africa as a missionary, where she would work and serve till the end of her life. Below is an excerpt from her many spiritual writings. One of the sentences in this selection inspired the hymn "Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus." See if you can spot it. It was in a little wood in early morning. The sun was climbing behind a steep cliff in the east, and its light was flooding nearer and nearer and then making pools among the trees. Suddenly, from a dark corner of purple brown stems and tawny moss, there shone out a great golden star. It was just a dandelion, and half withered— but it was full face to the sun, and had caught into its heart a...

Misty Morning Not B&W Random Big Sky Downtown Macon Gardenia Spot the Bird Orange Twins Recycling Rules Droplets First Tomato In the Headlights Happy Old Dog Hello, Summer Looks Like Tears Downtown The Journey Baseball Hungry Caterpillar New Every Morning Unlikely Instruments "It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside." Maud Hart Lovelace