Trees #15 - LEAVES

TREES #15 - LEAVES

We are continuing the second phase of our Bible study on trees by studying the different parts like: roots, branches, trunk and leaves.

In today's continuation of the trees series, we will be focusing on the LEAVES.

This is Part#15 on "Leaves".

We begin in Genesis at the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve used leaves as clothing after they had disobeyed God and eaten from the Tree of Knowledge (see Bible verse below):

 (we touched on this verse in part#2 click HERE to view "From the Fall to Forgiveness.")

"Leaves" are also used as symbolism throughout the Bible.  In the passage below we see that the righteous believer is being compared to a thriving green leaf:

"Those who trust in their riches will fall,

    but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf."

Proverbs 11:28

 Or in Jeremiah 17, where anyone who trusts in the Lord is again compared to a thriving green leaf.  This was part of my "FearNot" series (click HERE to view: "FearNot#6 - No Fear When Heat Comes.")

 We complete our study on leaves with my favorite - the Tree of Life and specifically the leaves that become medicine to heal all the nations.  See both passages below (Ezekiel and Revelation):

(click HERE to view "Trees #8 - The Tree of Life)

What an unimaginable joy that will be to eat from the Tree of Life and be healed by the leaves from that Tree!

But for now, let's strife to be that righteous green leaf that never withers from the difficult hot times.

Previous Tree posts:

Part#1 - Visual & Edible

Part#2 - From the Fall to Forgiveness

Part#3 - Fruit

Part#4 - Olives

Part#5 - Mustard, Faith & Mulberry

Part#6 - FIGS: From Genesis to Revelation

Part#7 - Cypress, Pine, Cedar

Part#8 - The Tree of Life

Part#9 - Zacchaeus & The Sycamore Tree

Part#10 - Roots

Part#11 - Trunk/Bark/Wood

Part#12 - Branches (Part#1)

Part#13 - Why Palms?

Part#14 - Branches (Part#2)

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Tuesdays with a Twist Blog Hop #580

Welcome to Tuesdays with a Twist #579!

Before we get to the blog hop today - 

all month I will be featuring a post featuring berries:

Fruit Feature - BLUEBERRIES

Checkout wonderful seeds at Mary's Heirloom Seeds 

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Or click picture below:

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Evening Sun Mix Sunflower Tote Bag
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Good Morning and Welcome to another No Rules Party!

We're your hosts & co-hosts 

Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Checkout my amazing "Featured" Pinterest Board

(click HERE to view & follow)

Features!

Each co-host will be sharing her own picks for Features. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured! 

My Features this Week are:

1. "Doll Dresser Gets a New Life" by The Apple Street Cottage

2. "3 Minute Tiramisu Dip" by Cindy's On-Line Recipe Box

3. "Goodbye School Year, Hello Summer" by Our Grand Lives

If you've been featured we'd love for you to grab a button.

The party starts every Tuesday at 7am EST and will continue until Saturday at 11:59pm.  Feel free to stop back any time and "like" your favorites.  Please visit other blogs if you have a moment. 

Share older posts as well as new ones.  No limit on links!

*Pictures should be your own* 

By linking up you give us permission to use these photos

 (with proper link backs) in our features.   And now for the party!

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Grow your own!
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 "Mary's Heirloom Seeds"!!
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You're the STAR - Week#1 GARDEN (June 2024)

Can you believe it's June already?  The garden is starting to look like summer!

Thank you again for joining us!

There are many ways to follow me:

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Before we continue onto the Linky party I wanted to share from my blog:

A Month of Freedom Quotes #9 - Freedom Grows Rapidly

WELCOME to the June 2024 "You're the Star" Blog Hop!

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WELCOME to GARDEN feature week of the June 2024 "You're the STAR" blog hop!
Meet your GARDEN week Hosts 

 
This week is GARDEN feature week
Swing by the GARDEN Hosts blogs:
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures

This is a month long Linky party featuring YOU!

There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories.  Just to be clear - this is NOT a themed party - you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month. 
The "theme" occurs in our weekly features:
WEEK#1 GARDEN - gardening, homesteading, recycling, outdoor activities &/or preserving (this can include any type of green living,  repurposed ideas, outdoor concerns, posts relating to farm animals etc all while remaining family friendly)

(These features were chosen from the May 2024 "You're the Star" blog hop)

Our Homestead Garden by Scratch Made Food

Summer Sunshine by Jaipur Garden

Experiencing the Northern Lights in Minnesota by Roots & Hearth

The Highground Veteran's Memorial Park by Adventures in Amy's Creative Pursuits

If you've been featured then please grab a STAR button below:

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All Hosts/CoHosts will post this blog hop on every Monday of each week.
Please link up your family friendly blog posts below!
It wouldn't be a linky party with YOU!
(IMPORTANT NOTE: by linking up you understand that you might be featured next month and if so, we will use some of your photos from your post - rest assured - we will always link back to your lovely blog.  We might also share your fantastic posts on social media.  Also, you may link up as many family-friendly posts as you like & YES - other blog hops &/or giveaways are welcome {giveaways and blog hops will NOT be featured though}  Thank You & ENJOY! )

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Old Fashioned Sunday Hymn Sing #129

Welcome to the 129th Old Fashioned Sunday Hymn Sing!

I miss the old hymns that I remember from my childhood - there were no drums, no electric guitar and no mind numbing beat. It was just voices and maybe a piano or an organ. The choir led the congregation in singing - and the words of these hymns are poetic. I realize that there is a need for the modern "seeker oriented" worship music - but it is also necessary to have deeper songs (no offense intended to anyone who prefers the newer church songs).

I decided to have an "Old Fashion Sunday Hymn Sing" once a month on this blog.

I personally do NOT have a great singing voice - I used to play the guitar & piano but my voice is NOT an instrument. That's the great thing about this digital hymn sing, you can warble along without being embarrassed or without offending anyone else.

The hymns that we will be studying are taken from an old hymnal from a Baptist church that is no longer in existence - "The North American Hymnal" published in 1956 by "THE ROGER WILLIAMS PRESS"

I will also try to find a version of the featured hymn on "YouTube" to share with you each month.

Today's featured hymn is "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" written by Charles Wesley (1707-1788) & composed by Carl G. Glaser (1784-1829).  Some say that today's featured hymn writer could be the best of all time.  He wrote about 6,500 hymns in his lifetime!!!  However, "only" about 480 were published (only -haha).  Actually, that published number is a total between him and his brother John Wesley who also had published hymns.  Charles was the youngest of 18 children!!  It was one of his older brothers that made it possible for him to go to school/college.  There is much more to his history but I shared what pertains to his hymn writing.

Recently, on one of the "God's Power Within Us" posts we focused on "The Power of Life & Peace" and since those are almost the exact words to verse 3 of today's song I thought I'd re-share that post:

click HERE to view "God's Power Within Us #7 - The Power of Life & Peace"

I have included two videos below the lyrics.  The music is different in each video but most of the lyrics are the same. 

Enjoy!

Turn with me to number 189 in your hymnals and let's sing:

O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

written by Charles Wesley (1707-1788) 

& composed by Carl G. Glaser (1784-1829)

1. O for a thousand tongues to sing My great Redeemer's praise, The glories of my God and King, The triumphs of His grace!

2.   My gracious Master and my God, Assist me to proclaim, To spread thro' all the earth abroad The honors of Thy Name.

3.   Jesus!  The Name that charms our fears, That bids our sorrows case, Tis music in the sinner's ears, "Tis life, and health, and peace.

3.   He speaks, and listning to His voice, New life the dead receive;  The mournful, broken hearts rejoice;  The humble poor believe.

                  

A special thanks to "Martijn de Groot" for sharing this with us!

A special thanks to "The New Irish Choir & Orchestra" for sharing this with us!

Other Hymns on this blog:

O Perfect Love

Commit Whatever Grieves Thee

Prayer Is the Soul's Sincere Desire

Tis the Blessed Hour of Prayer

Savior, More Than Life to Me

True Hearted, Whole Hearted

The Great Physician

Thy Work, O God, Needs Many Hands

In Heavenly Love Abiding

Lead On, O King Eternal

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"Prayer Basics & 8 Ways To Find Answers"

Old Fashion Rhubarb Bread RECIPE

Old Fashion Rhubarb Bread RECIPE

This recipe is "old fashion" for two reasons:

1.  Rhubarb is considered an old fashioned ingredient

2.  This is a simple fruit bread recipe without any modern twist or tweak (Actually, technically rhubarb is a vegetable).  

Last year I shared with you how to save rhubarb seeds:

Click HERE to read "Saving Seeds - RHUBARB"

Ingredients:

1 egg

1 cup milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

2/3 cup melted butter (cooled to lukewarm)

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt (unless you are using salted butter - they decrease to 1/2 tsp salt)

2 1/2 cups flour

2 cups diced rhubarb

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Begin by preparing the rhubarb (rinsing and dicing) and by melting the butter so that it can cool. 

In a large mixing bowl combine the egg, milk, vanilla extract, sugar and melted butter.  Stir until combined (but not whipped). 

Now add the flour, salt and baking soda - stir until combined.  Finally, add the rhubarb and chopped nuts (see pictures below):

Grease 2 loaf pans (or line them with parchment paper) and fill each loaf pan with equal amounts of batter (see picture below):

Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 45 to 55 minutes (or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean).

Remove from the oven and cool while in the pan for 10 minutes before turning the loaves out of the pans.

Serve warm or cooled (with or without butter) and ENJOY!

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"Canning Basics - JAR SIZES"

Tuesdays with a Twist Blog Hop #579

Welcome to Tuesdays with a Twist #579!

Before we get to the blog hop today - 

all month I will be featuring a flower post since May flowers abound after a month of rain:

Flowers by Color - ORANGE

Checkout wonderful seeds at Mary's Heirloom Seeds 

click HERE to shop for the best seeds

Or click picture below:

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Also, checkout one of my Bags/Purses available at Zazzle:

Evening Sun Mix Sunflower Tote Bag
by GodsGrowingGarden

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Good Morning and Welcome to another No Rules Party!

We're your hosts & co-hosts 

Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Checkout my amazing "Featured" Pinterest Board

(click HERE to view & follow)

Features!

Each co-host will be sharing her own picks for Features. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured! 

My Features this Week are:

1. "Macrame Lawn Chair Tutorial" by My French Twist

2. "Angel Baby Blankets" by This Is Us

3. "Blueberry Streusel Crumb Cake Cookies" by Cindy's On-Line Recipe Box

If you've been featured we'd love for you to grab a button.

The party starts every Tuesday at 7am EST and will continue until Saturday at 11:59pm.  Feel free to stop back any time and "like" your favorites.  Please visit other blogs if you have a moment. 

Share older posts as well as new ones.  No limit on links!

*Pictures should be your own* 

By linking up you give us permission to use these photos

 (with proper link backs) in our features.   And now for the party!

_________________________________________
Grow your own!
Many wonderful garden products from
 "Mary's Heirloom Seeds"!!
click to view