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This is one of my favorite paintings -- Royal Gardens .  this is oil on canvas.  I enjoyed painting it.   You can buy a print at Pixels. Com -- https://pixels.com/featured/royal-gardens-cheryl-godden.html We still have smoke here in south western Washington State !!  Its not fun to deal with -- It makes my eyes tear up and makes me sneeze a lot.  I have to constantly clean my air conditioner filter.  But enough complaining at least it is not in the 100s degrees anymore it has reduced to 80s, and for that I am grateful. As I type this President Trump is talking at at a rally in Montana -- hopefully their Big Sky is clear and not full of smoke.  He is quite a speaker !!  I enjoy listening to him, he is not like a boring regular politician that will put you to sleep listening. My neighbor grows apples and grapes and roses and all manner of things in his garden.  I stopped to talk to him today when I was taking Candy ...

Today is May 19, 2018 and it is the day that Prince Harry weds Meghan Markle.  So in the theme of love and marriage, I thought I would post an article that I wrote a few years ago. Love to hear your comments on this. CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING OF LOVE The Christian's understanding of love has to do with his understanding of God.  God is love.  He is the personification of love, and since we were made in His image we are also creatures of love. Love is our natural realm to live and have our being in because it is in our nature to love.  we were made to love and to be a representation of love.  The kingdom of God is made up of love, peace and joy. When we are not moving and expressing love, we are least like ourselves, because we are made to reflect God and His attributes.  We are a reflection of God in the earth -- our true desire is to be compassionate and look out for our brother, and to be interested in the welfare of others. ...

I wrote this article a few years ago at Purim. I am putting it up her on my blog because Purim just passed last month in 2018 in March. Its a fascinating story to me about Esther and Ashasurus in the book of Esther in the bible. Leave me any comments you may have I would be interested to read what you have to say about this article. The Book of Esther The book of Esther is a book about love. God's love for His people. Esther is a type of the church which God enjoins himself to in Holy matrimony. She is His first love and only love, and He gives His life for her. He loves her and says that she has 'doves eyes', and calls her away into His garden to be with him for ever and for ever. It is a love story: the greatest love story ever written. Esther is also a mirror of the gentile nation even though she was Jewish – a mirror for the reason in that we share an equal part with the Jewish people at the time when they were rejected and we had not yet been accepted....