Wonder-Full

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him,

 so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:13

A glimpse at what has overflowed my cup of  hope (aka wonder and joy)

in the past few days...

Winner of the American Express Golf Tournament...

with his son who kept saying 'daddy, let's go see the ducks and geese' (swimming nearby)

completely oblivious to the interview/er about his daddy's shining hour💖

Guess which part of the pumpkin-raisin muffin tot preferred😂

These pics but surface skimmings!!

A few more below!

How does one choose a few from thousands?!!

(h-m-m, is that what God says as He chooses our mercies new each morning?!)

('how does one choose a few from trillions?')

The wonder of the Giver’s love is up to us to find

His promises bring happiness to heart and soul and mind

To we who seek, God’s goodness leaps to cheer the common-place

To sweeten life amidst the toil and strife of truth and grace

To wonder is faith’s sacred bliss; a diamond in the dirt

Of learning how to find the ‘wow’ in hope’s heartache and hurt

How to be awed by Holy God where His kind mercies brim

Our burden but the needful ‘what’ to keep us tuned to Him

The wonder of the Giver’s love bids us to be content

To marvel where the very air we breathe is Heaven-lent

To take the time to be sublimely surprised by the ‘small’

And to begin to barely skim the wonder of it all

The wonder of God is enough to combat wonder’s foe

Where sin would be an enemy we could not overthrow

But, by God’s grace He helps us trace the shadow of His pow’r

As to love’s grief He pins a leaf, bird-symphony, a flow’r

© Janet Martin

(this passage is entitled The God Given Task)

Eccles.3:9-14

What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? 

10 I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. 

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. 

Also He has put eternity in their hearts, 

except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

12 I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, 

13 and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—

it is the gift of God.

14 I know that whatever God does,

It shall be forever.

Nothing can be added to it,

And nothing taken from it.

God does it, that men should fear before Him.

and the conclusion is entitled:

The Whole Duty of Man

9 And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; 

yes, he pondered and sought out and set[c] in order many proverbs. 

10 The Preacher sought to find [d]acceptable words; 

and what was written was upright—words of truth. 

11 The words of the wise are like goads, 

and the words of [e]scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd. 

12 And further, my son, be admonished by these. 

Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.

13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:

Fear God and keep His commandments,

For this is man’s all.

14 For God will bring every work into judgment,

Including every secret thing,

Whether good or evil.

From the book Susie, Life and Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon