This past weekend, I noted a note (among many) in the front of my Bible that said 'Two Favorite Pages: 648, 649'. As I looked for them, curious, I assumed they would be in the Psalms as you all know how I love the Psalms. To my surprise, it was four Old Testament books further in Isaiah. Indeed, two well-marked pages with hearts in the margins (indicating favorites). Chapters 54 from verse 10 onward over to verse 19 in Chapter 57 (your Bible will probably have different page numbers.) This week I'd like to share a few with you starting with the first onces I had marked: "Oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates and thy gates of carbuncles (a red garnet cut with facets), and all thy borders with precious stones." (Note here - isn't this a beautiful symbolism? Especially for rock and gem lovers like me.) And THEN: "And all thy children shall be taught of The Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children." As the Psalmist David would say, "Selah": or 'think on these things'.
Photo herein was taken last week, south of Tucson looking from the desert to the snowdusted Catalinas.
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