Readers are invited to submit photos depicting the Far North’s special quailities.

I submitted the photo below:

“SERIOUS HORSEPOWER: Travelling back in time in Kerikeri.” (The Northland Age, Tuesday, October 29, 2013)

You can travel like this in KERIKERI

I WON THE BOOK IN A COMPETITION

Finished reading the book by Nigel Latta, “The Modern Family Surviving Guide.” 

The book gives me quite a bit to think!

When I started to look up “Halloween” in The Collins Concise Dictionary I would have never thought that I would end up reading about “the collective body of those who are righteous in God’s sight.”

HALLOWEEN

The dictionary tells me that “Halloween” is “the eve of ALL Saints’ Day celebrated on October 31. Today is Thursday, October 31, 2013. Halloween is celebrated this evening.

And I am finding this about All Saints’ Day in the dictionary: “a Christian festival celebrated on November 1 to honor all the saints.” All Saints’ Day is tomorrow.

And what does the dictionary say about saints? There are several meanings. One meaning is “the collective body of those who are righteous in God’s sight.”

That is also what the Bible says. The apostle Paul wrote many of the letters in the New Testament and he addresses his readers as saints.

And believe it or not, I am also a saint, because I am righteous in the sight of God!

“If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in it.”

I am finding that quote by William A. Orton in the book called WRITE RIGHT written by Jan Venolia. It is another second hand book and it was given to me yesterday. There is also a beautiful picture illustrating the quote.

RUBBISH

PEOPLE WILL THROW RUBBISH IN OUR MINDS

Do I need to say more about that? The answer is NO.

THE LORD WILL PUT HIS LAW IN OUR MINDS.

In Hebrews 8:10 it says: “‘I will put my laws in their minds …'”

In Hebrews 10:16 we read: “‘I will put my laws in their hearts, …'”

Do I need to say more about that? The answer is YES!

Here is what we read about the law in the Psalms:

Psalm 1:2; Psalm 19:17; Psalm 37:31; Psalm 40:8; Psalm 119: 18,70,72,77,97,163,165.

Please find a Bible and read those verses!!

Don’t let people throw rubbish in your mind, but let the Lord put his law in your mind.

Keep your mind open for the law of the Lord!