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Just a Thought...
By Staff Writer Sharon Barrett

Spring is coming! Or is it? The signs are there, snow is melting, ice has fallen from the houses, streets have puddles and bare spots on them instead of snow. With spring comes the flowers, a new beginning for life. Time to shed off the old and put on the new. God is so wonderful to do the same for us. If things are not right with the Lord and it's winter all the time, we can make things right and turn it into spring.

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Museums of Note

SMITHSONIAN WITHOUT WALLS: REVEALING THINGS
All too often museums call attention to lofty works of art, in the process neglecting the simple things that surround us, equally capable of inspiring and invoking beauty. This online exhibit by the Smithsonian--the first created specifically for the Web--calls attention to such items. The exhibit showcases ordinary items donated by ordinary folks that transcend their pedantic origins and evoke high art. Peruse exhibits featuring patched bellbottoms, wooden hand puppets, an ironing board, and more on this incredibly well designed enclave.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SAN DIEGO
We usually chide sites that use flashy technology just for the sake of using a flashy technology. We grant exemptions to most museum sites, since people visit them intending to spend some time and want a rich visual aesthetic to accompany them. This museum site, however, employs a remarkably subtle design in presenting its works and available programs. Take a VRML tour, send a postcard, learn about the museum's history and the history of the artists therein.

Jill Lemming's Thoughts on Colors

Living Colors
By Jill Lemming

It takes a blend of colors
for a rainbow to emerge...
each color has a function,
yet alone becomes obscure.

When joined with one another,
just see what God can do...
He forms a bold creation,
spectacular in view.

Like the colors in the rainbow,
God's children shine so bright...
each making an impression,
unique in their own right.

But nothing shines as brilliant,
or displays God's steadfast love...
as the joining of our "colors"
to fulfill God's plan above.

God formed us in His image,
and gave us each a name...
displaying our own "colors"
and no two are quite the same.

So when we come together,
every shade and precious hue...
becomes a whole creation;
like the rainbow, pure and true.

Living Color My World
By Jill Lemming

Sometimes we find shades of gray
when grief comes to our lives...
and other times we see the sun
shine golden in our eyes.

It all depends on how we view
the world that God has made...
it takes some effort on our part,
to lose those "shades of gray."

Lord, give me eyes to see my world
in lovely shades of GREEN...
reflecting growth within my heart
and blessings unforeseen.

Let me see the color RED
to remind me of Your blood...
and how You died to set me free,
a sacrifice of love.

And when I see the color WHITE,
let me see Your righteousness...
the truest symbol of Your grace
and the purest color yet.

Lord, color my world and let me see
each symbol You have made...
all reflections of Your love,
each one a perfect shade.

I behold her in my mind’s eye as reality rushes by. Bright eyes alight my gaze with such fire: wide and alive with vitality. Her face is soft with a smooth nose and lightly pursed lips. She stands there, almost nervously, a rare licking of her lips; with a little shifting of her legs. Oh; the soft curvaceous legs held so poised by her lean gorgeous body. Her torso is smooth, the flesh supple and so alive. I wish so much I could stroke her, so delicate and smooth, running fingers like a ghost over her long neck.... If there was but some way not to disturb the moment.... Some way to get close to what I am not worthy of beholding.... And then she is gone into the rush of reality, the crowd of so much life around her....

I will never forget the moment a doe in the woods taught me of the beauty of God’s creations.
John Barrett

Feelings
By Evangeline Gaskins

I am nervous
I am stressed
Today I am not at my best
But for a mere second, I felt a chill
All I go thru and what's not my best is Gods will
So evidently my : NOT BEST , is also BLESSED
And there went my nervousness
And there went my stress
SO TODAY I AM AT MY BEST

Painted Promises
By Rebecca Chamaa

Painted Promises

Yesterday I saw a rainbow

painted in the sky,

the brush stroke of the Master.

A promise

colored in

red, yellow, blue.

I wept not at the beauty

but at the sign,

the significance

of the Word,

the covenant,

the signature of God.

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