Tag Archives: water

Counting Clouds

Posted on March 29, 2015 by wamplerp

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you … Continue reading →

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Does the Rain Have a Father?

Posted on March 28, 2015 by wamplerp

Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?   Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?   Have you comprehended the vast … Continue reading →

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Out of the Storm

Posted on March 27, 2015 by wamplerp

Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:   “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?   Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.   “Where were you … Continue reading →

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Frozen

Posted on March 26, 2015 by wamplerp

At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.   Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.   He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends … Continue reading →

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Showers Fall on Mankind

Posted on March 25, 2015 by wamplerp

How great is God—beyond our understanding!  The number of his years is past finding out.He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams ;   the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on … Continue reading →

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Clouds so High Above You

Posted on March 24, 2015 by wamplerp

Then Elihu said: “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’  Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’  I would like to reply to … Continue reading →

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Furrows Wet with Tears

Posted on March 23, 2015 by wamplerp

And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.   They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.   Now that God has unstrung my bow and … Continue reading →

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Eddying Out – New Life

Posted on March 22, 2015 by wamplerp

I have been slogging through the book of Job for a couple of weeks now and I needed a break so I am taking a day to eddy out and enjoy the sabbath day and the arrival of spring in … Continue reading →

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Dry Stream Beds

Posted on March 21, 2015 by wamplerp

But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.   Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?   Haggard … Continue reading →

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Roots that Reach the Water

Posted on March 20, 2015 by wamplerp

I thought, ‘I will die in my own house, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.   My roots will reach to the water, and the dew will lie all night on my branches.   My glory will not fade; … Continue reading →

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