Sorry about getting this up late!

For info on the Death Valley bloom, click here.

Music

Alex McLeod “Sunset”
Peter Adams “The Disappeared”
Chelsie Boyd “It Is Well”
For more info on Horatio Gates Spafford click here.
Tinta “Yearning”
This is the beautiful acoustic guitar music you heard in the background as I was speaking.

Scriptures

John 10:10 (The Message New Testament)
I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.

Jeremiah 29:11 ? 14 (New International Version)
11For I know the plans I have for you,? declares the LORD, ?plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14I will be found by you,? declares the LORD, ?and will bring you back from captivity.? I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,? declares the LORD, ?and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.?

Psalms 139:7 ? 10 (New International Version)
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

Romans 8:31 (New International Version)

This is the verse of the day

31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:38 ? 39 (New International Version)
38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,? neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 10:32 ? 33 (New International Version)
32?Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. 33But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.

John 14:21 (New International Version)
21Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.?