Greetings friends!
Sarah, daddy, and I visited the beach on Sunday(Sep. 27th. The waves were really high, due to the full moon, and the sunrise was just glorious. I have included some photos and a couple videos in this post.
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Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
Psalms 21:13
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Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Psalms 69:34
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From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
Psalms 113:3
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One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Psalms 145:3
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And blessed by his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 72:19
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Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Psalms 150:1
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The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Psalms 145:9
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I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 89:1
And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
Revelation 19:1
Which picture do you like best? I've numbered them so you can easily leave a comment with the number of the picture you like best. :)
Your friend in the Lord,
Ashley
At
a personal level, some will decide that the year just ending was better
than most; for others, it was a year they would rather forget. Then at a
global level, when we see and hear of unending wars and famines and new
diseases spreading worldwide, some will ask, "If there is a God, where
is He?" Others will turn the situation around and ask, "What kind of God
permits all this to happen?"
Several
years ago, an international research team convincingly demonstrated how
bees know how far they have traveled visually. Researchers trained bees
to fly through a 30 foot tube by placing food at the far side. Then
they placed a checkerboard pattern inside the tube designed to make the
bees think they had flown farther than they really had. Researchers
found that the pattern made the bees think they had flown 31 times
farther than they really had. After watching the bees that had gone
through the tricky tube, researchers calculated that for every 18
degrees an image travels across the bee's eye, she will dance for one
millisecond as she communicates her discovery. As one researcher put it,
they have calibrated the bees' odometer.
Dr.
Stuart Burgess, the aerospace engineer responsible for the solar array
deployment system on the European Space Agency's earth observation
satellite system, wrote a whole chapter about the human knee in his book
Hallmarks of Design. He refers to the knee as a sophisticated
"four-bar system" in which two bones and two ligaments work together in
perfect harmony. 
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.