Faith

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, he whom you love is ill." But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it." Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. …

… Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"

Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead for four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upwards and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me." When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.

John 11:1-45

The Resurrection of Lazarus

BERTIN, Nicolas

1720-30

Musée Lambinet, Versailles

http://www.biblical-art.com/artwork.asp?id_artwork=33842&showmode=Full

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future.
     It's  simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

~ Joni Erickson Tada

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to
        be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and
family, in one's backyard.

~ Abraham Maslow

Adele had her painting selected for the Life Care Christmas card!

Wow!!!

I won a freebie!

“Carolyn Alexander and three friends will attend a future production by The Evergreen Players sometime in 2011.  Carolyn, a regular viewer on JustAroundHere.com, was the lucky winner the week of March 28.”

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The elk were out en masse this foggy morn.

I stood on a little knoll and panned in several directions.

And … behind me …

An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
~ Bertrand Russell

April 10, 2011 Fifth Sunday of Lent

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Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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Ezekiel 37:1-14

Psalm 130:1-8

Romans 8:6-11

John 11:1-45