tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160916.post6507403900240433828..comments2024-03-06T04:31:53.093+11:00Comments on Just in CASE: The glory of God: 25,000 orchids have their say!Trevor Cairneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10743409298855125040noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160916.post-79080109171206875262008-12-06T07:57:00.000+11:002008-12-06T07:57:00.000+11:00Thanks for your comments Liz, Greg and Rachel. Gla...Thanks for your comments Liz, Greg and Rachel. Glad to know that you're a fan of orchids Rachel but I'm not sure I can help with the identification. I'll have a look. TrevorTrevor Cairneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10743409298855125040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160916.post-28768474975674933922008-12-06T07:19:00.000+11:002008-12-06T07:19:00.000+11:00Now that you've revealed this passion for orchids,...Now that you've revealed this passion for orchids, can you teach me anything about these ones;<BR/><A HREF="http://storiansmol.blogspot.com/2008/11/which-flower-is-this-26.html" REL="nofollow">flower 26</A><BR/><A HREF="http://storiansmol.blogspot.com/2008/10/which-flower-is-this-25.html" REL="nofollow">flower 25</A><BR/><A HREF="http://storiansmol.blogspot.com/2008/10/which-flower-is-this-24a.html" REL="nofollow">flower 24a</A><BR/><A HREF="http://storiansmol.blogspot.com/2008/10/which-flower-is-this-24.html" REL="nofollow">flower 24</A><BR/><A HREF="http://storiansmol.blogspot.com/2008/10/which-flower-is-this-23.html" REL="nofollow">flower 23</A><BR/><BR/>Any help appreciated.Rachaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06982273558471848626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160916.post-73989948181026801792008-12-03T12:39:00.000+11:002008-12-03T12:39:00.000+11:00It is indeed marvellous to consider God’s creation...It is indeed marvellous to consider God’s creation. It also leaves me perplexed as to why so many can observe such wonders and not at least be moved to consider that there might be a God who is behind it all, and whose laws ought to govern our behaviour.<BR/>I think of Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur”, for instance:<BR/><BR/>The world is charged with the grandeur of God.<BR/>It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;<BR/>It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil<BR/>Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?...<BR/> <BR/>Why, the poet asks, in the view of the evident majesty of God’s creation - yet also the debilitating effects of sin in the world (“Crushed”) - will humans not recognise and obey the laws that He has instituted for our own well-being (“rod” = an instrument both of correction and measurement)?<BR/>Hopkins concludes with a message of hope:<BR/><BR/>And for all this, nature is never spent;<BR/>There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;<BR/>And though the last lights off the black West went<BR/>Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs --<BR/>Because the Holy Ghost over the bent<BR/>World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.<BR/><BR/>For all our folly, God’s maintains his presence in the world through the agency of his Holy Spirit.<BR/>Still we are forced to agree with the psalmist that ‘The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."’ As the apostle Paul wrote: “The god of this age (i.e. Satan) has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God” (2 Corinthians 4:4). <BR/>For Christians, the task can be seen to a large extent in terms of prayer – praying that God would act through his Spirit to open the eyes of unbelievers to the truth and majesty of his presence, and the status of his Son Jesus as Lord and Saviour.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Greg TAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160916.post-91899913618657442882008-11-30T18:57:00.000+11:002008-11-30T18:57:00.000+11:00wow- those photos of orchids look good - they are ...wow- those photos of orchids look good - they are such elegant plants<BR/>God does indeed gives generously and abundantlyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com