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Showing posts with label inspiring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiring. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Someday I'll Sing ...
“Who
made the flowers to bloom in the spring
Who
made the song for the robins to sing
And
who hung the moon in the starry sky
Somebody
bigger than you and I ...”
~ “Somebody Bigger Than You and I”
~ written by Johnny Lange, Hy Heath
& Sonny Burke
~ recorded by the great Elvis Presley
~ 1967
I
spotted this sweet robin fledgling in the grass on an early June evening in
Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania, reminding me of the line in my most favorite Gospel hymn, the beautiful “Somebody Bigger Than You and I,” recorded by the
great Elvis Presley in 1967.
Someday
this little fledgling will sing the song God made for the robins to sing … and
sing beautifully!
Monday, April 3, 2017
Early Spring On Leaser Lake ...
“I
saw that my life was a vast glowing page and I could do anything I wanted.”
~ Jack Kerouac
~ 1922-1969
A
man paddles his canoe amidst the vast beauty of early spring on Leaser Lake, in
the shadow of the northern Blue Mountain Ridge, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania.
Spring
is the time of new beginnings, and boundless possibilities lie ahead as he
charts his course while a late March sunset waits in the wings.
I
shot this scene on the day before Easter, and the nearby church bells were
chiming “I Love to Tell the Story,” the wonderful Gospel hymn written as a poem
by English evangelist Katherine Hankey in 1866. It was set to music by William
G. Fischer in 1869. The refrain, always appropriate but especially at Easter,
is, “I love to tell the story, ‘twill be my theme in glory, To tell the old,
old story of Jesus and his love.” It was wonderful to hear that as I walked the
trail looping around the lake on this warm evening.
Leaser Lake’s namesake is Frederick
Leaser, an American patriot who in September 1777 with his farm team hauled The
Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Allentown where it was concealed in Zion
Reformed Church for protection during the Revolutionary War. His homestead is
located one mile north of the lake.
Leaser
Lake was built by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission for water-oriented
recreation and opened for public use in 1971. Lehigh County leases this area
from the state and operates and maintains the park. The land north of the lake
was purchased by the county in the early 1970s. It is entirely wooded and is
used for nature study and as an addition to the State Game Lands No. 217.
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