Be Blessed this Thanksgiving

1

A Psalm of Thanksgiving.

Shout joyfully to the LORD, all you lands; (all nations, all people)

2

serve the LORD with gladness;

come before him with joyful song.

3

Know that the LORD is God,

he made us, we belong to him,

we are his people, the flock he shepherds.

4

Enter his gates with thanksgiving,

his courts with praise.

Give thanks to him, bless his name;

5

good indeed is the LORD,

His mercy endures forever,

his faithfulness lasts through every generation.

Count Your Blessings Everyday and Share God's Grace, Mercy and Love in all you do.

May God Bless you and your family, this Thanksgiving and everyday!

The Piccolo

One of the smallest instruments,

Seldom heard,

Rarely featured.

During a symphony it waits and waits.

The piccolo waits quietly,

There is  no spot light, 

It is not noticed by the audience.

But when it's moment comes,

No other instrument will do,

No other instrument can take its place

Without the tiny piccolo

The symphony is incomplete.

We are instruments in God's symphony.

Some of us are like the drums, beating a rhythm by which others keep time.

Some of us are like the brass, loud and flashy, a delight to hear.

Some of us are like the string instruments, refined and deeply passionate.

Some of us are like the conductor, guiding and leading the group.

And others are like the wind instruments, 

quiet and not as easily noticed, but vital to enrich the music.

And among the wind instruments, 

Some of us are like the piccolo.

We may not be in the spotlight.

And the part we play may be small.

But without us and the talents God gave us 

God's symphony is incomplete.

We are all needed, 

We are equally important and 

We are equally valued in God' symphony.

Did We Beat the Odds??

Odds of getting Ebola:  1 in 13.3 million

Odds of getting struck by lightening:  1 in 9.6 million

Odds of being killed by a shark:  1 in 3.7 million

Odds of being killed in a car accident:  1 in 91,000

Odds of the Random Creation of a DNA molecule:  1 x 10^40,000

That would be the number 10 followed by 40,000  zeroes:

I find 81 zeroes go in one row across this post:

And I created 10 row blocks so each block is 810 zeroes.

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And that makes only 4050 zeroes!

So I would have to multiply the above by nearly 10 time

to get 40,000 !!

 So do you REALLY think we BEAT THOSE ODDS??

Reference Links:
what's my risk of dying of ebola
what-are-the-odds-of-life-evolving-by-chance-alone

The Sea Glass Analogy

Sea Glass is Beautiful!

You can make beautiful things with Sea Glass:

I wonder.....

If sea glass left on its own for a few billion years......

Could it possibly become more organized like this?

Or even something as simple as this:

Of course not. 

And you may know where I am going with this train of thought.........

Atheist expect us to belief that molecules such as this:

came together in a pool of slime with a little bit of lightening added to create this:

An amino acid 

that randomly found other amino acids to make this:

A DNA molecule 

that is able to self replicate 

without error

 to create functional proteins such as:

 

A Phospholipid Molecule---which is a critical component of cell membranes

and is one of only several critical molecules

needed to produce structures such as these:

And not only form these, 

but must all perfectly functional.

Each one of these simple cellular organelles are immensely complex:

The Mitochondria for example:

Or

 Endoplasmic Reticulum

(I feel smarter just saying those 2 words!)

It is amazing 

that ALL the right molecules, 

in number and quality

were in that ONE puddle

under the  EXACT right conditions 

and did not FRY by lightening

 but instead assembled into something that was 

functional, 

self-replicating 

and self-organizing 

into something as complex as all these various organelles----

AND 

that they all work together

 in conjunction with one another 

to produce a viable Bacterium 

from which all life sprung....

Random?

Not on your Life!