Sights around Chiang Mai

So, I decided to take the camera around the "big city" of Chiang Mai. The pictures are not that great as I am on the back of the motorcycle while Trent is driving in most of them! Anyway, I thought I would give you some idea of where we are on the other side of the world.



This is a picture of a stoplight. I love it! In Thailand, most stoplights have a countdown clock! I love this! I think this is something America should do. It really helps chill while you are waiting...


And this is the normal school bus! Can you believe it??? Yes, children go to and from school on this nice transportation. Right before I took this picture two of the boys were playing & one almost fell off. Oh My!


And for now I will leave you with this one. It is a bridge decorated for the King of Thailand. Thai people love their King. I mean, THEY LOVE THEIR KING! He has his picture hung up all over Thailand and is usually in a gold frame. Most bridge is decorated with his and his wife's picture during various times of their lives. The King is in his eighties???

Planted for His harvest!

This evening I was in the Word & I read John 12:24-26. I began to meditate. Later, I came upon this on the internet….. I thought it provoking. What do you think?

Planted for the Harvest - John 12:24-26

I tell you the truth. A grain of wheat must fall to the ground and die. Then it grows and makes many seeds. But if it never dies, then it will always be only a single seed. The person that loves his own life will lose it. But the person that hates his life in this world will keep it. He will have life forever. The person that serves me must follow me. Then my servant will be with me everywhere I am. My Father will give honor to people that serve me. (ERV)

Thought
So much of what we want to do for God we try to do by ourselves. Our motives are right. Maybe our heart is right. Our plans are made with prayer. The problem is that we end up doing everything except the crucial thing: we are not willing to die. Our identity gets involved in pulling off our plans. Our hopes and our feelings about Christian service get tangled up in our success in the plan. Jesus reminds us that there is no harvest without death -- the seed has to be planted and die before it can germinate and grow. Jesus submitted everything, including his fears and his friends, to the will of God. It cost him his life. It won him the harvest. What have you not surrendered to God?

Thank You God for Your Holy Spirit to teach me & guide me!

BE on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour

This morning Trent and I randomly opened the Word for no particular reason. We came to Matthew 25 on the parable of the 10 Virgins.

This is such an important word to todays church! For you, for me! The virgins are all considered to be "believers", yet 5 were foolish & 5 were wise. Are we being wise?