Follow me To Where JESUS IS LORD

Ocean View Church -- where CHRIST JESUS IS LORD...

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If I speak with the eloquence of men and of angels, but have no love, I become no more than blaring brass or crashing cymbal. If I have the gift of foretelling the future and hold in my mind not only all human knowledge but the very secrets of God, and if I also have that absolute faith which can move mountains, but have no love, I amount to nothing at all. If I dispose of all that I possess, yes, even if I give my own body to be burned, but have no love, I achieve precisely nothing.This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience—it looks for a way of being constructive. It is not possessive: it is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance. Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage. It is not touchy. It does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails. Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen. (1 Corinthians 13:1-8a, PHILLIPS)

JESUS IS LOVE.

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Know JESUS -- Know GOD...

LOVE NEVER FAILS in Fuschia

LOVE is patient, love is kind.

LOVE does not envy,

is not boastful, is not conceited,

does not act improperly,

is not selfish, is not provoked,

and does not keep a record of wrongs.

LOVE finds no joy in unrighteousness

but rejoices in the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends.
LOVE NEVER FAILS.

Now these three remain:

faith, hope, and love.

But the greatest of these is LOVE.

Love never fails -- front...

Lover never fails -- back...

If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love,

I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 

If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries

and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains

but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,

and if I give my body in order to boast 

but do not have love, I gain nothing.

(1 Corinthians 13:1-3, HCSB)

(This one-and-only, one-of-a-kind handpainted tshirt is for my sister Myrna -- a very kindhearted and very generous original -- whom i love SO much...)

Pretty in PINK -- and Brown!

Wildflowers -- in pink...

Paint-pearls -- on brown...

Flowers and hearts...

LOVE never gives up.
LOVE cares more for others than for self.
LOVE doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
LOVE doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts GOD always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
LOVE never dies.
(1 Corinthians 13:4-8, MSG)

Pretty in PINK -- and Brown (front)

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WHAT Is man?

What is man?

As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone...
and its place remembers it NO MORE.  (Psalm 103:15-16)

Ni na takali ga ko koya me vaka na se ni co. (Jemesa 1:10)

The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psalm 90:10)

On-going art project at Naselesele Village Catholic Church - Taveuni, Fiji.

If i gave everything i have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, i could boast about it; but if i didn't love others, i would have gained NOthing. (1 Corinthians 13:3)