Photo for 010/01/2011

Our next destination this year was Yankee Boy Basin which is known for its waterfalls and wildflowers...Teakettle Mountain...

Points To Ponder 10/01/2011

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln
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See Genesis 39:21-23 NIV

But while Joseph was there in the prison, 21 the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. 22 So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there. 23 The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph's care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him ________ in whatever he did.
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Photo for 09/230/2011

Our next destination this year was Yankee Boy Basin which is known for its waterfalls and wildflowers...Colorado State Flower...the Columbine...

Points To Ponder 09/30/2011

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An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. - Charles Stanley
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See Genesis 39:11-20 NIV

11 One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. 12 She caught him by his cloak and said, "Come to bed with me!" But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.
13 When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, 14 she called her household servants. "Look," she said to them, "this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. 15 When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."
16 She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. 17 Then she told him this story: "That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. 18 But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."
19 When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is how your slave treated me," he burned with anger. 20 Joseph's master took him and put him in _______, the place where the king's ________ were confined.
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Photo for 09/29/2011

Our next destination this year was Yankee Boy Basin which is known for its waterfalls and wildflowers...

Points To Ponder 09/29/2011

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A society cannot teach its youth they are merely animals then be shocked when they act like it.
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See Genesis 39:7-10 NIV

7 and after a while his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, "Come to ____ with me!"
8 But he refused. "With me in charge," he told her, "my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. 9 No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?" 10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be _____ her.
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Photo for 09/28/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. We are now on the Ouray side of the pass in Imogene Basin. I poked the camera lens through the torn fence and got this shot of the inside of the mine portal of the Hidden Treasure Mine. This was shot on August 3rd of this year and you can still see a fair amount of snow on the inside.

Points To Ponder 09/28/2011

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What gets rewarded gets repeated. Find the short-term payoff that perpetuates your persistent sins, then apply the Truth of God’s Word to it.
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See Genesis 39:1-6 NIV

39:1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
2 The LORD was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. 3 When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in _________ he did, 4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. 5 From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on _________ Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. 6 So he left in Joseph's care everything he had; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.
Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
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Photo for 09/27/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. We are now on the Ouray side of the pass in Imogene Basin. Mine portal of the Hidden Treasure Mine.

Points To Ponder 09/27/2011

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"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
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See Genesis 38:27-30 NIV

27 When the time came for her to give birth, there were _____ boys in her womb. 28 As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, "This one came out first." 29 But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, "So this is how you have broken out!" And he was named Perez. 30 Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out and he was given the name Zerah.
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Photo for 09/26/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. We are now on the Ouray side of the pass in Imogene Basin. Mine track and a switch at the Hidden Treasure Mine.

Points To Ponder 09/26/2011

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Jesus said hell is a real place and He's the authority on the afterlife. If Jesus says it's there, it's there.
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See Genesis 38:25-26 NIV

25 As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. "I am pregnant by the man who owns these," she said. And she added, "See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are."
26 Judah recognized them and said, "She is more __________ than I, since I wouldn't give her to my son Shelah." And he did not sleep with her again.
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Photo for 09/25/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. We are now on the Ouray side of the pass in Imogene Basin. A marmot at the Hidden Treasure Mine.

Points To Ponder 09/25/2011

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If you follow an angry leader who finds his identity in FIGHTING, know that when he runs out of enemies he'll turn on YOU.
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See Genesis 38:24 NIV

24 About three months later Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant."
Judah said, "Bring her out and have her __________ to death!"
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Photo for 09/24/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. We are now on the Ouray side of the pass in Imogene Basin. One of the few remaining buildings at the Hidden Treasure Mine.

Points To Ponder 09/24/2011

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Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength - Eric Hoffer
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See Genesis 38:20-23 NIV

20 Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his ________ back from the woman, but he did not find her. 21 He asked the men who lived there, "Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?"
"There hasn't been any shrine prostitute here," they said.
22 So he went back to Judah and said, "I didn't find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, 'There hasn't been any shrine prostitute here.'"
23 Then Judah said, "Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn't find her."
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Photo for 09/23/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. We are now on the Ouray side of the pass in Imogene Basin. This bird is very common in the in the Colorado mountains and goes by many names including “Canada Jay”, “Whisky Jack” and “Camp Robber”. They are one of the boldest of birds and will enter tents or take food right off of your picnic table.

Points To Ponder 09/23/2011

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Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are. - Thomas a Kempis
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See Genesis 38:15-19 NIV

15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. 16 Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, "Come now, let me sleep with you."
"And what will you give me to sleep with you?" she asked.
17 "I'll send you a young goat from my flock," he said.
"Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?" she asked.
18 He said, "What pledge should I give you?"
"Your _______ and its _______, and the ________ in your hand," she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. 19 After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow's clothes again.
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Points To Ponder 09/15/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. He is a picture of me at the top. As you can see by the information on the sign the elevation at the top of Imogene Pass is 13,114 feet (a 4,350-foot elevation gain since we left Telluride). The views from the top of Imogene are spectacular! But by the time we reached the summit the clouds were moving in. I think this is my eighth time over Imogene Pass (1969, 1986, 1991, 1992, 2002, 2007, 2008 and 2011).

Points To Ponder 09/15/2011

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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them. - Charles West.
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See Genesis 37:25-28 NIV

25 As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.
26 Judah said to his brothers, "What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 27 Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed.
28 So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for ________ shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
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Photo for 09/14/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. We are now well above the Tom Boy Ruins and timberline but we still have large fields of wildflowers.

Points To Ponder 09/14/2011

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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. - Zig Ziglar
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See Genesis 37:23-24 NIV

23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe — the richly ___________ robe he was wearing — 24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
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Photo for 09/13/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. A field of wildflowers at Tom Boy Ruins...

Points To Ponder 09/13/2011

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Bitterness in the believer is like a bullet in the body. – Bob Coy
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See Genesis 37:18-22 NIV

So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. 18 But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
19 "Here comes that dreamer!" they said to each other. 20 "Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams."
21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. "Let's not take his life," he said. 22 "Don't shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the desert, but don't lay a hand on him." Reuben said this to _______ him from them and take him ________ to his ________.
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Photo for 09/12/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. Here are some of the Tom Boy (town and mine) Ruins... A sign at Tomboy says, “The Tomboy Mine and Savage Basin Camp was located 3,000 feet above Telluride. The settlement contained a school, store, stables and the miner’s cabins. The Tomboy started producing quantities of gold ore in 1894 and 1897 the mine was sold. A daily stage ran along this shelf road carrying passengers and mail.”

Points To Ponder 09/12/2011

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Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.
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See Genesis 37:12-17 NIV

12 Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem, 13 and Israel said to Joseph, "As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them."
"Very well," he replied.
14 So he said to him, "Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me." Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.
When Joseph arrived at Shechem, 15 a man found him _________ around in the fields and asked him, "What are you looking for?"
16 He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?"
17 "They have moved on from here," the man answered. "I heard them say, 'Let's go to Dothan.'
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Photo for 09/11/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. Here are some of the Tom Boy (town and mine) Ruins...

Points To Ponder 09/11/2011

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Aspire to inspire before you expire.
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See Genesis 37:9-11 NIV

9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?" 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father _______ _____ __________ __ ______.
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Photo for 09/10/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. Wildflowers growing out of the rock cliffs along the road...

Points To Ponder 09/10/2011

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Jealousy robs us of joy. If I only enjoy my own success, I miss joy from others. Rejoice with every church and person's success.
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See Genesis 37:5-8 NIV

5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it."
8 His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to _______ over us? Will you actually _____ us?" And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
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Photo for 09/09/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. Here is a shot of the road ahead...looks like the end of the road...but it goes to the left... :0)

Points To Ponder 09/09/2011

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He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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See Genesis 37:1-4 NIV

Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.
2 This is the account of Jacob.
Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3 Now Israel _______ Joseph _______ than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
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Photo for 09/08/2011

Our next destination this year was Imogene Pass which goes from Telluride to Ouray. At one time this was a Stagecoach road. Today these roads are rated by class system. Ophir was a Class ‘2’ road and Imogene is a Class ‘5’ road. Once again you can see the road is very narrow in places.

Points To Ponder 09/08/2011

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Forgiveness is NOT optional in the Christian life. Regardless of what’s done to us our responsibility is ALWAYS to forgive. – Bob Coy
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See Genesis 36:1-8 NIV

36:1 This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).

2 Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite — 3 also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel, 5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in Canaan.

6 Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob. 7 Their ____________ were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock. 8 So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.
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Photo for 09/07/2011

This is a photo from last year...going down the west side of Ophir Pass headed towards Telluride, Colorado...as you can see the road gets a tad narrow.... :0)

Points To Ponder 09/07/2011

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Hummmmm.....In a small mid western conservative town, a new bar/tavern started a building to open up their business. The local congregational church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers. Work progressed, however right up until the week before opening, when a lightning strike hit the bar and it burned to the ground.

The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, till the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means.

The church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the buildings demise in its reply to the court.

As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork at the hearing and commented, "I don't know how I'm going to decide this, but as it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner that believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that doesn't.
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See Genesis 35:21-27 NIV

21 Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. 22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons: 23 The sons of Leah:
Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun. 24 The sons of Rachel:
Joseph and Benjamin. 25 The sons of Rachel's maidservant Bilhah:
Dan and Naphtali. 26 The sons of Leah's maidservant Zilpah:
Gad and Asher.
These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
27 Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. 28 Isaac lived a hundred and _______ years. 29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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Photo for 09/06/2011

In this photo we are at the summit of Ophir Pass headed towards Telluride, Colorado...

Points To Ponder 09/06/2011

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If you’ve got to tattle to someone...tattle to Jesus – Beth Moore
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See Genesis 35:14- NIV

16 Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. 17 And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you have another son." 18 As she breathed her last — for she was dying — she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him _________.
19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel's tomb.
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Photo for 09/05/2011

A cross at the Red Mtn. overlook at the summit of Corkscrew Gulch...near Ouray, Colorado...

Points To Ponder 09/05/2011

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When we commit ourselves to prayer we open our thoughts to a changed life.
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See Genesis 35:14- NIV

14 Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. 15 Jacob called the place where God had talked with him _________.
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Photo for 09/04/2011

Another shot looking down at Red Mtn. #1 from the Red Mtn. overlook at the summit of Corkscrew Gulch...near Ouray, Colorado...As you can tell from these photos we had quite a bit of rain on this trip...

Points To Ponder 09/04/2011

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. - D.L. Moody
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See Genesis 35:9-13 NIV

9 After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him. 10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be _________." So he named him _________.
11 And God said to him, "I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your body. 12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you." 13 Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.
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Photo for 09/03/2011

Some red rocks at with bright green lichen at the Red Mtn. overlook at the summit of Corkscrew Gulch...near Ouray, Colorado...

Points To Ponder 09/03/2011

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“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the leader is a servant.” - Max Dupree
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See Genesis 35:6-8 NIV

6 Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. 7 There he built an __________, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8 Now __________, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So it was named Allon Bacuth.
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Photo for 09/02/2011

Looking down AT Red Mtn. #1 from the Red Mtn. overlook at the summit of Corkscrew Gulch...near Ouray, Colorado...As you can tell from these photos we had quite a bit of rain...

on this trip...

Points To Ponder 09/02/2011

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Many things won’t be understood until heaven. Trying to discover what you WON'T know is futile. Disobeying what you DO know is fatal.
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See Genesis 35:1-5 NIV

35:1 Then God said to Jacob, "Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau."
2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3 Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone." 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. 5 Then they set out, and the _______ of God fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.
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