Description of Coloring Page:
Greek Othodox, Virgin Mary pregnant with Jesus, halos, praying hands,
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Description of Coloring Page: Jesus seated on His Heavenly Throne, the blessing of the second person of the Holy Trinity in His raised hand, the Bible on Christ's knee, the halo with the Cross of Christ marking the blood atonement paid the the Mercy Seat for humanity, decorative patterns "After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and
tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and
before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches
in their hands. And they were shouting with a great roar, “Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne and from the Lamb!” Revelation 7: 9-10
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Description of Coloring Page: stained glass coloring page about Christ's Resurrection, Mary of Magdala wonders aloud "They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord
away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. John 20:13-14, at the tomb of Jesus
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Description of the Illuminated Carpet Page: from the miniature Saint Gall Gospels, Celts, Celtic, illuminated manuscript, Jesus, Christ. Apostles, angels, cross, Celtic boarder patterns
The Irish Gospels of St. Gall or Codex Sangallensis 51 is an 8th-century Insular Gospel Book, written either in Ireland or by Irish monks in the Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland, where it is now in the Abbey library of St. Gallen as MS 51. It has 134 folios (so 268 pages). Amongst its 11 illustrated pages are a Crucifixion, a Last Judgement, a Chi Rho monogram page, a carpet page, and Evangelist portraits. Read more...
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"He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it." Genesis 28:12
You know how it is when something you have seen during the day comes into your dreams at night. Only it comes into your dreams in the oddest way, and the most extraordinary things happen in connection with it. Well, the ladder of this morning's text was like that.
Jacob, poor fellow, had been running away from home all day. He and his brother Esau had had a quarrel. Jacob had played a mean trick on Esau, and Esau was so furious that he had vowed to take Jacob's life. But Jacob's mother determined that she would prevent any such awful tragedy, so she sent off Jacob post haste to visit his uncle Laban. She sent him off in such a hurry that he had nothing but his staff for company.
Jacob walked very fast all day, and when evening came and the stars shone out in the Eastern sky he found himself tired and footsore. His heart was aching as well as his feet, and he was miserably homesick. He found himself in a bare rocky valley, at the foot of a hill which rose in steps or terraces till it seemed to touch the stars. It was a desert spot, but Jacob was too weary to go farther. So he took one of the stones which were lying about, put it under his head for a pillow, and lay down on the bare ground. I've no doubt, grown man though he was, that he wet that stone pillow with a few tears before he fell asleep.
When he did sleep he had a strange dream. He saw the terraced hillside above him, but instead of being a hillside it was now a shining flight of steps. The Bible uses the word " ladder," but what Jacob saw was more like a long staircase. Step after step it rose till it reached to heaven itself, and lo! his stone pillow was the lowest step of the flight. Up and down this wonderful staircase angels were constantly hurrying, as if they were busy carrying messages from earth to heaven, and back again from heaven to earth. Then Jacob discovered a greater marvel still. Somebody was bending over him, and speaking to him - Somebody who had evidently come down that shining staircase - and suddenly Jacob knew that the Somebody was God Himself. God spoke to the lonely traveler and made him promises - glorious promises - both for himself and for his children. And Jacob awoke a different man from him who had fallen asleep, for he had seen God and spoken with Him. The staircase of his dreams had brought him in touch with God.
When Sir John Franklin, the famous Arctic explorer, was a little chap, some of his companions were discussing what they should do when they grew up to be men. Each was going to do something grander than the other. At last they came to John. They had all chosen so many fine actions that there seemed nothing left for him. But John was ready with his plan. "When I'm big," said he," I'm going to build a ladder so high that I shall be able to climb up to heaven." His friends all laughed at him, but we know that though he did not build that ladder he climbed the ladder of fame. He climbed it to its topmost rung when he laid down his life in a frozen land, trying to discover the North-West Passage.
We cannot all climb Sir John Franklin's ladder of fame, but we can all climb Jacob's staircase, for it was a staircase of "discussions between God and man," which is just a grown-up way of saying it was a staircase of prayer. Yes, prayer is the staircase by which we can reach God, and by which He also can come down to us. By it we can send our thoughts and wishes up to Him like the angels ascending, and by it He can speak to us. For prayer is not merely our speaking to God; it is also God speaking to us. You will find that out some day when you are specially vexed or worried, and have sent your worries up the shining steps. You will feel, while you pray, as if God had descended by the staircase of your prayer and were bending over you to help and comfort you. Rev. Hastings
Color Jacob's Dream of A Staircase To Heaven:
Jacob's Ladder, the old toy named after the Bible story:
"...and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed, this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.” Genesis 5:29
There was once a very little girl, so little as to be almost a baby, and she had a hot little temper which blazed out suddenly every now and then. One day when she had flown into a passion her father exclaimed, "Little spitfire!" Baby stopped and solemnly looked at him, but said nothing. The same day her mother received news which made her very sad, so sad that she could not help crying. Baby, who had a warm little heart as well as a warm little temper, was distressed too. She climbed on her mother's knee, put her arms round her mother's neck, and lisped, "Poo' Mummy, don't ky, don't ky!" And mother dried her tears at the touch of those clinging arms and hugged the tiny comforter and whispered, "Mother's little comfort." When Baby was dropping over to sleep that night she was heard repeating softly to herself, "Daddy's 'itta 'pitfire, Mummy's 'itta tumfort." And for many a day after if you asked her name she promptly replied, "Daddy's 'itta 'pitfire and Mummy's 'itta tumfort."
Today I want to tell you of someone in the Bible who was both his father's and his mother's "little comfort." In fact his name just means "comfort," though the Hebrews pronounced it "Noah." The Bible doesn't tell us exactly why Lamech, Noah's father, called his little son " Comfort," but it gives us several hints, and we guess the rest.
Noah's father and mother had evidently been having a hard struggle to make a living. They had toiled early and late and their hard work had not had great results. Perhaps the soil was at fault, perhaps a blight had fallen on the crops. Perhaps a flight of locusts had alighted on the fields and eaten up every green thing. We are not told. All we know is that they were feeling that they had struggled hard and had failed. And then, when they were feeling specially downhearted, God sent them their little son, and Lamech and his wife took new heart and fresh courage from God's gift to them. They felt that here was something that more than made up for all their disappointments, so they called him Noah, which means "Little Comfort."
Can't you imagine Lamech talking to his wife and saying, "We shall try again for the sake of the boy. And this time we shall succeed"? And they would both go forward hopefully, looking to the time when baby Noah would be a big boy and ready to work along with them.
But it was not only to his parents that Noah was a comfort. He was a comfort to God. Noah was born at a time when the people around were very wicked.
They loved evil. They loved it to such an extent that they intentionally forgot God. They put Him out of their lives as if He did not exist, and they went their wicked way rejoicing in it, and trying hard just how wicked they could be. Among them all there was only one who remembered God and listened to His voice, and it was Noah. God's heart was nearly broken with the wickedness of the men whom He had created. Noah was His one comfort. By and by God saw that the only way to stop the terrible wickedness was to destroy the doers of it. And so, as you know, He sent the, flood and drowned the determined evildoers. But Noah and his family He saved alive in the ark.
We too can be Noah's, boys and girls. We can comfort our fellow-men and we can comfort God.
How can we comfort our fellow-men? In thousands of ways - big ways, and little ways, and middle-sized ways. We can begin with the little ways. We can begin to be Noah's at home. We can notice when father is tired or mother needs a helping hand. We can slip in and do our little bit to help. That will be acting Noah. We can take the little ones and amuse them for half an hour till mother gets a rest. We can run an errand for father or offer to post his letters. We can show little brother how to do that sum which he has already wiped out half a dozen times on his slate. We can mend little sister's doll and dry the tears which she has been shedding because its arm has come off. We can begin, I say, with the little ways; but we shall not end with them. If we begin with the little ways, we shall go on without knowing it to the big ways, and shall end, God helping us, by being a comfort to our day and generation.
And we can comfort God. "That sounds strange," you say. "I always understood that God comforted His children. I didn't think He needed to be comforted Himself." That is just where you and many others make a mistake. God needs comfort. He needs it terribly. For after all, " comfort " is just another name for "love," and God hungers more than we can say, or think, or imagine for the love of His children on earth. He longs for it with a longing unspeakable. And the pity of it is that some people think God can get along quite nicely without them. Are you going to be God's " comforts " too, dear children? God hopes you are. Rev. Hastings
Color God's Comfort, the remaining sons of Seth:
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| Cucumber. In flower and with separate fruit. Click on image for largest file size. |
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| Cypress. With separate staminate catkin. Click on the image to download the largest file. |
Description of Coloring Page: Greek Painting of the XVI Century, Christ as the Grand Archbishop, halos, Saints and angels, Holy Trinity, God The Father, Holy Spirit (descending dove) and Jesus with open Bible, John the Baptist in his fur robe, the Virgin Mary, crown
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Description of The Coloring Page: Egyptian yacht, sail with symbols, oars, cruising down the Nile river or Reed Sea, Egyptian pleasure boating
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| Spiny Rest-Harrow. With separate flower and fruit. Click on the image to download the largest file. |