Here's a really neat song that I've been listening to a lot for the past few days. It's called Paid in Full (By the Blood of the Lamb) Hope you enjoy it.
Hope you had a sweet Lord's day.
Love,
Ashley
Bible verses of the week: I looked for some Bible verses to go along with the song, and I think these are a perfect match. These verses also bring to memory another song "Jesus Paid It All". Maybe I'll post that one next week. ;)
Ephesians 1:7 "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;"
And.............
Colossians 1:20 "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven."
And.............
Colossians 1:20 "And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven."
Let's
say that you are a frog in a pond. High above your head, cosmic rays
are striking nitrogen-14 atoms and changing them into radioactive
carbon-14 atoms. That carbon eventually finds its way into your food and
becomes part of you. Throughout your life it continues to accumulate in
you. When you die, it stops accumulating. Being unstable, carbon-14
decays over time. Researchers measure the carbon-14 that remains in
something that was once alive to determine how old it is. To do so,
however, they must assume that the Earth is over 50,000 years old.
That's how long it would take for the amount of carbon-14 being produced
to equal the rate of carbon-14 decay. But we now know that there is
more carbon-14 being produced than is decaying, meaning that the Earth
must be less than 30,000 years old! In addition, the processes at work
during Noah's Flood would have lowered the availability of carbon-14 to
living things, which would also help account for the shortage of
carbon-14. 
Researchers
studying pigeons have learned that they can read all of the letters of
the alphabet and they read them in a way similar to people. Scientists
became convinced that pigeons see the world in much the same way as we
do when they discovered that pigeons tend to confuse the very same
letters that people do. What’s more, it took only four months for
pigeons to learn to distinguish all the letters of the alphabet. For
years, pigeons have been used to spot and reject defective items on
assembly lines, where they have better records than human beings. 
Penguins,
of course, can't slip on a pair of sunglasses, but they don't need to.
These marvelous birds have an external eye fluid that filters out blue
and ultraviolet wavelengths from the solar spectrum. This gives them
clear vision while protecting their eyes from harm. As you might have
guessed, eagles, falcons, hawks and other birds of prey also have this
fluid.
Scientists
do know that the clock is set by light. They also know that your clock
is not set by the rods and cones in your eye that see color and images.
They had conclusively shown that the eye's rods and cones have nothing
to do with setting the clock. Several years ago, researchers bred mice
whose eyes lacked rods and cones. As they shifted light periods, the
mice still adjusted their biological clocks to the new periods. Now
researchers are convinced they have found how our eyes adjust our
biological clock after studying, of all things, the African horned frog.
While studying the frog, scientists discovered a photoreceptor called
melanopsin. This photoreceptor is found in the skin, eyes and brain of
the frogs. They then decided to test for melanopsin in our eyes. They
discovered that a form of the photoreceptor is produced in the inner
retina of our eyes. The rods and cones of our eyes are located on the
outer retina. The human eye, and those of mammals, is a multi purpose
organ!
A
male courting a female will bring her a flower petal. The petal usually
matches his color or is a deeply contrasting color. Normally a perky
little bird with an upright tail, when courting he lowers his tail and
creeps around close to the ground. As he twists his body back and forth,
he puffs out his cheek feathers. If the female accepts his courting,
she builds their nest alone, lining it with bright parrot feathers.
While they mate for life, they are not known for fidelity to their
mates. When mature, females will go off on their own, but males may stay
with their parents for a year or more. Their main duty is to guard the
family nest. If danger approaches the nest, the guard will puff up his
wings, lower his tail and scuttle through dry grass, pretending to be a
mouse. The idea is to lure the predator away from the nest. 
As
these incredible creatures make their way through the soil, they
shorten in length and then stretch their body to as long as fourteen
feet. Despite their size, it is very difficult to study these giant
earthworms because they never come to the surface unless flushed out by
heavy rains. They prefer to spend their lives deep underground where
they won't be cut to pieces by farmers tilling the ground.