Keri On: Beauty and the Beast

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1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.[a]
3 We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints; 5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, 6 which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit,[b] as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; 7 as you also learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf, 8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood,[c] the forgiveness of sins.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.
21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.
24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church, 25 of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God, 26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. 27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which[d] is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. 29 To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Beauty and the Beast

Here are our grapes.......

........ Beautiful!!! (but not quite ready to harvest!)

Believe it or not.........

Here is the Beast....beautiful as well, but NOT when in the same vicinity as our grapes!

Every morning this critter and a friend are hanging out in our yard......they have not yet eaten our grapes....but certainly seem to be eyeing them. We've yet to see if hanging strong smelling soap on the trellis will deter them to the end...so far...they seem to have been bothered enough to stay away (in other years they haven't minded eating them at this stage of ripeness!)....We'll see who gets the beauties!

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CanadagirlSeptember 23, 2011 at 7:52 AM
I really hope you all get the beauties! I have such fond memories eating concord grapes growing up. They grew on the fence between our fence and our neighbors. Our neighbors didn't want them and allowed us kids to have as much as we wanted. [o= What great memories.

Blessings and ((HUGS))
-Mary
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LynnaeSeptember 23, 2011 at 7:56 AM
Those grapes look delicious!!! We are having the same trouble with our orchard :) But we got a pellet gun to fix the problem, and so far it hasn't been successful at scaring them off :)
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Beloved's Redheaded BrideSeptember 24, 2011 at 6:38 PM
I adore watching those little critters but you are right those grapes need to be left alone! Do you have big plans for the grapes when they are ready to be picked?
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PamSeptember 25, 2011 at 4:09 PM
wow keri, what beautiful grapes; they are like a picture from a beautiful magazine... gives me hope for my grapes in future.
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April's HomemakingSeptember 27, 2011 at 1:08 PM
Your grapes are beautiful, love the pictures!! We used to have deer in our yard nibble at the veggies, and the soap worked pretty well to keep them away. Deer are pretty to watch- as long as they stay away from crops :) Thanks for stopping by my blog- I look forward to checking out more of yours. ~April
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Beloved's Redheaded BrideSeptember 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM
Also Keri, if you get a chance I would like to see your children's history notebooks. I would like to see how beautiful feet sets it up. We do History notebooks as well but the aren't nearly as details right now.
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CanadagirlSeptember 28, 2011 at 8:11 AM
Thank you for all your sweet words. I really appreciate them ALL. May your day be very blessed my friend.

Blessings and ((HUGS))!
-Mary
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Homeschool on the CroftOctober 4, 2011 at 1:05 AM
Oh, wow! What beauties right enough... I cannot imagine having grapes right in my own garden. That's wonderful. And yes, beautiful as the other fella is, I'd feel the same as you in this situation...
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