Fern Forest Nature Center, Coconut Creek, Florida, April 20, 2013

 For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.
Matthew 18:20

Fern Forest Nature Center, Coconut Creek, Florida, April 20, 2013

You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last
John 15:16a

The Spencer Family Butterfly Garden, April 2013

for you have been my help,
and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy.
My soul clings to you;
your right hand upholds me.
Psalm 63:7-8

Fern Forest Nature Center, Coconut Creek, Florida, April 20, 2013

Shower, O heavens, from above,
and let the skies rain down righteousness;
let the earth open, that salvation may spring up, 
and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also;
I the LORD have created it.
Isaiah 45:8

Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, Boca Raton, Florida 
April 23, 2013 

Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psalm 90:14

Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, Boca Raton, Florida 
April 23, 2013 

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
let the field exult, and everything in it.
Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy
Psalm 96:11-12

Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, Boca Raton, Florida

April 20, 2013

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven. 
Matthew 5:16

Trinity Lutheran Church Butterfly Garden, Pembroke Pines, Florida
December 19, 2012

You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
Psalm 62:3

Our family garden
December 20, 2012

 Just as water reflects the face,
so one human heart reflects another.
Proverbs 27:19

Litchfield Beach, South Carolina, 
December 2012

ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind; 
James 1:6

Along the Wetlands Wandering Trail at Fern Forest Nature Center, Coconut Creek, Florida, April 20, 2013
The LORD will guide you continually,and satisfy your needs in parched places,
and make your bones strong;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water,
whose waters never fail.

Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden, March 1, 2013
Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil.
MATTHEW 13:5

Snake Warrior Island, Miramar, Florida, March 2013  
The LORD is my strength and my might;
he has become my salvation
Psalm 118:14

Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens, Coral Gables, Florida March 1, 2013
Rise up, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand;
do not forget the oppressed.
Psalm 10:12

Hollywood Beach, Hollywood, Florida, March 2013
O God, you are my God, I seek you,
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalm 63:1

Treetops Park, Davie, FL March 2013
In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live
John 14:19

Along the Prairie Overlook Trail at Fern Forest Nature Center, Coconut Creek, FL
April 22, 2013
Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. ⁸More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.
Philippians 3:7-9

February 25, 2013 Snake Warrior Island Natural Area, Miramar, FL 
Deep calls to deep
at the thunder of your cataracts;
all your waves and your billows
have gone over me.
By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42:7-8

Sea Creek Falls, Suches, Georgia, 2012

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. 

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 

James 4:8,10,14

Litchfield Beach, South Carolina, December 2012

I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
my soul waits for the LORD
more than those who watch for the morning,
more than those who watch for the morning
Psalm 130:5-6

Along the horse trail at Long Key Nature Center, Davie, Florida

Feb 7, 2013

You show me the path of life

In your presence there is fullness of joy
Psalm 16:11a

Along the Wetlands Wandering Trail at Fern Forest Nature Center, Coconut Creek, FL
O LORD, all my longing is known to you;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
Psalm 38:9

Anne Kolb Nature Center along the boardwalk
now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 
1 Corinthians 13:12