Friday quote and picture:

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
-- Winston Churchill

Low Lying Mist Over River Spey, Strathspey, Scotland

Tuesday quote and picture:

A hero is someone who does something for someone else at personal sacrifice.
-- Rick Warren

Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada

* Following Jesus is less like math and more like white water rafting.
* It’s less like writing down the right answers to a test and more like trusting yourself into the hands of a doctor.
* It’s less like standing on concrete and more like bungee jumping.
-- Michael Spencer

Friday quote and picture:

Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God's business.
-- Michael J. Fox

This picture is by either Jim Yelvinton or perhaps his son, Scott Yelvington, taken in Finland last year.

Wednesday winter picture and quotation:

Politics and crime: they are the same thing.
-- Michael Corleone, Godfather part III

Tuesday quote and winter picture:

Every storm runs out of rain.
-- Maya Angelou

Monday quote and winter picture:

Love pulls up a chair and listens.
-- Micah J. Murray

Sunday picture and quotation:

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
-- Michael Crichton

Thursday quote and winter picture:

The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
-- Mencius

Sunday quote won't fit again, but here's a picture:

Today's quote will not fit once again so here is the picture:

Rochester, NH

Friday quote and picture:
I believe in God, but do I believe in God-in-me?
I believe in God in heaven, but do I believe in God-on-earth?
I believe in God out there, but do I believe in God-with-us?
-- Meister Eckhart

Thursday quote and winter picture (another great picture from. my friend Nathan Deremer):

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.
-- M. C. Escher

Wednesday quote and winter picture:

Each day and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
-- May Sarton

Tuesday quote and winter picture;

Poetry will help you to find out who you are inside yourself. If you really want to be at the top of your form, know who you are.
-- Maya Angelou

Monday quote and winter picture:

Praying...is the most critical activity we are capable of, for when we pray, we are never satisfied with the world of here and now and are constantly striving to realize the new world, the first glimmers of which we have already seen.
-- Henri Nouwen

Saturday quote and winter picture:

When the journey is too much, when we’re down for the count, Jesus does not whip us into submission. He tends to our wounds.
-- Matt Johnson

Once again my quote for today will not fit into 300 characters. You can find it on my Facebook feed.

Friday winter picture:

Wednesday quote and winter picture:

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
-- Mary Anne Radmacher

Monday picture (the quotation is once again, too long for Bluesky)

Sunday quote and picture:

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Glacier Near Seward, Alaska

Saturday picture and quote:

For Christ at the last day will not ask how much you have prayed, fasted, pilgrimaged, done this or that for yourself, but how much good you have done to others, even the very least.
-- Martin Luther, A Treatise on Good Works

Aurora Borealis, Lapland, Finland

Friday quote and picture:

A person who…does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.
-- Martin Luther

Not righteousness but growth in righteousness,
not health but healing,
not being but becoming,
not rest but exercise.
We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.
The process is not yet finished but is going on.
This is not the end but it is the road.
-- Martin Luther

Wednesday winter picture and a quote:

Be content to seem what you really are.
-- Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)

Tuesday quote and picture:

The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
-- Martha Washington

Snow Covered Trees, Central Park, New York

Monday picture and quotation:

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
-- Mark Twain

Early Morning Sunrise at Bulkley River, Telkwa, British Columbia

Sunday quotation and a winter picture:

A lie can travel half way around the world
while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-- Mark Twain

Tranquil Sunrise, Mount Washington State Forest, Massachusetts

Once again, my quote for today exceeds the 300 character limit of Bluesky. Here's a winter picture.

I can't post today's quote because of Bluesky's 300 character limit, but here is a winter picture: