Fabulous Fall !

Last week we set out to enjoy the beautiful fall weather and scenery.

This was the view at the end of our hike, isn't it beautiful!!

It doesn't get much sweeter than this!

I am currently participating in a Beth Moore bible study about "Daniel".

It has been so amazing! It is opening my eyes to areas in my life that I

haven't paid attention to before. One of these areas is pride. We like to

think that pride is a very obvious thing, that you can look at someone

and say "they are prideful", but is so much deeper than that. Pride can

even come from something we meant for good. Some examples she uses

are fasting, studying your Bible, participating in Bible studies, sacrificial

giving... Each of these things are great, but we have to be very careful

that the devil doesn't turn it into an issue of pride. Some examples could

be.. "I" fast each week, what about you or "I" study my Bible so much

( I wonder if "others" study it like me.) Pride can be very secretive and

we may not even notice that is what we are doing. I am very thankful

that I serve a God who continually works on me! It is truly humbling to

have areas in your life that need to be addressed and know that" in all

these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."

Romans 8:37 I found the following quote and thought it was fitting.

"If we barely manage to win our way to heaven by the skin of our teeth, we could be said to be a conqueror, but a "more than conqueror" is someone who takes the worst that life can throw at him and uses that to become victorious. "More than conqueror" is one who, by the grace and the gift of God, and in the strength of God within him, actually takes the very things that are designed to destroy him, and they become stepping stones instead of stumbling blocks. That is being "more than conquerors."

-Ray Stedman