Alicia's LOTUS Blossoms

The power of THREE... the perfection of SEVEN.

Love, Joy, Peace... for Alicia!

More LOVE, more JOY, more PEACE -- for this wonderful woman!

Alicia's LOTUS Blossoms, front.

Alicia's LOTUS Blossoms, back.

Fruit of the SPIRIT -- love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (Galatians 5:22-23)

Peace, Joy, Love -- ONLY In JESUS

Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27)

Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength. (Nehemiah 8:10)

JESUS said, "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." (John 15:12)

JESUS -- the Child... CHRIST -- the Son.

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)

Peace, Joy, Love -- only IN CHRIST JESUS.

MOONLIT MountainTOP, Shadowed VALLEY

May the one who dons this art be truly blessed --

May she grow like verdant bamboo -- speedily shooting ever UPwards, according to our Father's abundant grace and immeasurable riches.

May

she

be

bathed

in

GOD's

Light --

which

dispels

all

darkness

and

illuminates

the

path

to

holy

righteousness.

May she blossom in the fullness of GOD's joy -- beautifying her surroundings as led by the indwelling Holy SPIRIT.

May the LORD be glorified in her mountaintop moments, as also in her shadowed valleys.

May our LORD JESUS reign supreme as the Sovereign Artist -- as He creates a unique masterpiece on the canvas of her life.

May the name of CHRIST be blessed and extolled forever and ever,

for His greatness is unsearchable -- His majesty always in all ways in glorious splendor --

for His wondrous works, awesome deeds, abundant goodness are to be greatly praised. (paraphrased from Psalm 145)

May the wearer of this "tract" be completed and perfected in GOD's supreme and everlasting love.

Maia's APRON -- JOHN 15:12

JESUS said, "love one another as I have loved you." (John 15:12)

In case you are slightly color blind...here's a computer-enhanced version of John 15:12.

Maia's polka-dotted apron... festive red for this CHRISTmas season.

APRONS That Proclaim GOD's WORD

Love one another as I haved loved you. (John 15:12, Maia's polka dotted apron.)

El SENOR es mi Pastor, nada me falta. (Psalm 23:1 in Spanish... for my co-worker Cristina.)

DIOS es Amor. (1 John 4:16, for my co-worker Felecita.)

On the back, Confia en El SENOR y haz el bien...deleitate en El SENOR, y El te concedera los deseos de tu corazon. (Psalm 37:3a-4, for my co-worker Florecita.)

rLn's apron... proclaiming the Good News of JESUS at work. Detail work at http://ad-for-god.blogspot.com/2010/08/good-news-on-my-apron.html

ANA's Birthday VERSE -- PROVERBS 1:8

Ana, my friend and co-worker has three grandchildren --

Camila...

Monce...

and Melani --

who are the precious apples of her eye.

PROVERBIOS 1:18 -- Hijo mio, escucha las correcciones de tu padre y no abandones las esenanzas de tu madre. (Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.)

ANA's PROVERBS 1:8

From the Ten Commandments of GOD, it is written:

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your GOD has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your GOD is giving you. (Deuteronomy 5:16, Exodus 20:12)

KEDID's JOY -- Nehemiah 8:10

Do not sorrow for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

(Nehemiah 8:10b)

Happiness is fleeting, dependent upon circumstance...
but the joy of the LORD is like an effervescent
rainbowed bubble that just won't burst,

no matter the circumstance in life,

for true JOY is found only upon the ROCK of Ages.

His holy name is "J" --

E...S...U...S.

True JOY is loving JESUS first --

The CHRIST rules surpreme in our affections.

Next -- loving others.

It truly is more blessed to give than to receive...

and to love others before ourselves.

Last -- loving yourself.

JESUS, Others, Yourself --

the JOY of loving this WAY fulfills the Law and Prophets.

GOD is LOVE.

He who does not love does not know GOD, for GOD is love. (1 John 4:8)

In this the love of GOD was manifested toward us, that GOD has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. (1 John 4:9)

In this is love, not that we loved GOD, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10)

KEDID's JOY -- NEHEMIAH 8:10

AKO's LOVE & Philippians 4:13

JESUS said, "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." (John 15:12) And on the Cross of CHRIST, the Father's merciful LOVE and holy JUSTICE met.

LOVE and PHILIPPIANS 4:13 -- ALL things i can do through CHRIST Who strengthens me.

(On the sleeve -- Genesis 1:1 -- In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth.)

Kathy's JAMES 2:18

What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?

If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?

Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. (James 2:14-18, 20, 26)

Kathy's JAMES 2:18... September 2 birthday gift.

Fruit of the SPIRIT -- Ephesians 5:9

...the fruit of the SPIRIT is love, joy, peace,

patience, kindness, goodness,

faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

(Galatians 5:22-23)

... goodness...kindness...self-control...

...truth...faithfulness...

...righteousness...love...patience...
mercy...peace...joy...gentleness.

EPHESIANS 5:9, front.

EPHESIANS 5:9, back.

...for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

JOHN 1:1 -- In the BEGINNING, En ESPANOL

This rLn original is a gift for my friend and co-worker -- Lupita. The one i gave her was a bit small (i guess my "artistic eye" was a bit askew), so i gave that one to my other friend and co-worker, Laura. (Update: when i brought the gift to work Tuesday, i discovered that Lupita was no longer employed, so i gave the shirt to Ana. Wednesday, she told me it was a bit small, so we decided to "re-regift" it again to Ariana!)

En el principio, ya existia El VERBO,

y El VERBO estaba con DIOS,

y El VERBO era DIOS.

In the beginning was The WORD,

and The WORD was with GOD,

and The WORD was GOD.

JOHN 1:1, front

JUAN 1:1, la espalda.

i pray the SPIRIT of GOD will make the wearer of this rLn tract tactilely and soulfully aware of the Truth of John 1:1.