Share a Sunset

I had a Dove Chocolate the other day. You know the ones that have little things to do inside the wrappers. One of them said something about Sharing a Sunset, so today on my way home from work, I saw the sunset and figured if I were going to share it, I'd better take a picture.

Picasa Web Albums

Today I was trying to upload some photos to my Flickr page and Flickr was not cooperating. It just wouldn't upload my photos, so I started looking for alternatives. My three month Flickr Pro account is about up and I was going to shell out $25 to extend it for a year, but if I can't upload photos when I want to, why pay them? They still might be the best option online, but before I decide I want to try different options.

Picasa Web Albums are a Google thing. There is an option to be able to directly upload to Picasa from within iPhoto, which I use extensively on my Mac. Let's see how it works. Mouse over a picture or caption to see the whole caption. Try out the Slideshow.

From Critters

Family Fun

Last weekend we went up to Sierra Discovery Trail. It is the first time I've been there in the snow. We couldn't even drive all the way there, but went as far as we were comfortable with and walked the rest of the way. I took lots of pictures and put several of them at my Flickr page. Here are a couple of them.



Today I've created a lot of Flickr Sets and sorted pictures into sets. When you go to my Flickr page you should see a list of sets along the right that will help you navigate more quickly to sets of photos that may interest you. If you don't see the list click the robertpauljr's photostream link and it will take you to my main page which has the list of sets. Some day I may end up putting all the sets into collections, so instead of a list of sets you'll see a list of collections.

(December 2, 2009: I no longer pay for Flickr Pro so I think the sets and collections thing is limited. It may not work as described above.)

Detour on the way to work

This morning there was a huge bus blocking traffic on Dogbar Rd. What was it thinking, being there in the first place? Crazy.

I didn't have time to take pictures this morning, so I stopped on the way home.



Here is where the front tire was:


And this is the view of where the bus was from down the road.

Titus 3:4-7

Sometime in the middle of the first century Paul wrote a letter to Titus that included the following sentence:

"But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life."

Wow! There is so much packed into this sentence. We could talk about God's goodness, His loving kindness.

We could talk about how He has appeared to man in various ways from the Garden of Eden, to the burning bush, to the crucified Savior, to the risen Lord, to the Almighty God of the book of Revelation.

We could talk about how He saved us, not because of our good works, for we fall so short of His perfect standard. Rather, we could talk about His mercy.

We could talk about regeneration and renewal, and the Holy Spirit.

We could talk about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

We could talk about how, by His grace, we are justified. He makes it just as if we had never sinned through the atoning work of Christ.

We could talk about our eternal inheritance.

Many people think that being a Christian is just about living a certain way, worshipping a certain way, following certain rules of conduct. Read Titus 3:4-7. Being a Christian isn't about what we can do for Him, but about Him, and what He has done to make a way for sinful people to enter into His kingdom through Jesus Christ.

Weimar Still Has Snow

Here at our house we still had a little snow long after it was long gone 5 miles down the road at FLCS. Up at Weimar which is about 5 miles the other direction they still had snow long after it was long gone here at home. This little video shows a little bit of Weimar Cross Road near I-80 that I took on my way to work last Wednesday.

Beautiful Day

I was running errands yesterday and as I got out of the car to drop some letters in the mailbox a guy said, "Beautiful day." "Yep," I replied. "Better than yesterday," he continued. I got in my car and left. Then I thought of things I should have said in reply. Why don't I ever think of things in time to say them? As I replay the brief conversation in my mind I imagine that instead of quietly getting in the car and driving off, I said: "By the grace of God through Jesus Christ, I'm learning that rain or shine come what may if I'm walking with God it's a beautiful day."