Cocoa Smiles » A Present Peace http://cocoasmiles.com Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:38:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Sweet and Gated http://cocoasmiles.com/2010/04/05/sweet-and-gated/ http://cocoasmiles.com/2010/04/05/sweet-and-gated/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:40:28 +0000 AR http://cocoasmiles.com/?p=4919

Saturday evening I drove out along a country road (most are country up here) and saw this little gate. This setting seemed perfect for a late afternoon photograph. And then there was time to take a quick photo of Cocoa Joy smiling. (smile)

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Jesus was raised so that we might walk in newness of life! He is our life, our blessed hope, and our resurrection!

He died so we might live.

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If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, . . . we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world. —C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity

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I don’t know if I have ever been a place of deeper solitude than this. Silence surrounded me, and I was sure if only for a moment, I was the only person on the face of this earth.

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All day long, we had been singing “Over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go.” Then we turned a corner and saw this scene and suddenly we felt as though we had reached a very warm destination—a destination as warm and welcoming as any grandma’s house.

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