Published in our wallpaper pages.
Free wallpaper revfelicity.org #2013-2 “…As for me…”
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You may wonder why I’m writing about Valentine’s Day – after all it has been throughly taken over by the secular world of red rose sellers and card makers. But I’m interested in what love is, and why we love. It all goes back to God – He has loved us with an everlasting love! – this is the text on our new wallpaper – the text comes from the prophet Jeremiah, and goes back many centuries before St Valentine or Hallmark cards! The picture comes from my garden – Raspberry Ice roses on my front lawn.
Free wallpapers #2013-01 “I have loved you…” 1440×900 Downloads, all sizes
When we think of what it is to love someone, and to let someone love us, we can take our pattern from God’s initial love for us. God made us to love us. God sent Jesus for us. So many reasons to let God’s love flow through us.
What has this all got to do with the romantic love that is celebrated on Valentine’s Day? I’m challenging us all to let our love go deeper – not just the chemistry clanging, bells ringing kind of love, but the deep, sacrificial love, that would lay down our life for another person.
15_The light shines in the darkness_1440x900
We have posted two new wallpapers for you to enjoy over the Christmas season. One reflects a traditional northern-hemisphere Christmas – trees in the snow, with rays of light breaking through. I like this picture, because it shows how light can always break through, no matter how bleak or cold life may look, that there is always the resurrection power of Christ coming into the world. And we celebrate His first appearance as a tiny helpless baby – no ordinary babe, but one with an awe-inspiring destiny.
14_Make a joyful noise_.1440×900
The other wallpaper reflects our Christmas and summer season here in New Zealand. It’s a pohutukawa tree, in full flower on a cliff overlooking the sea. This is its natural habitat, and I like what it says too – that life and joy and colour can flourish even in the stoniest, bleakest places,buffeted by wind and salt-spray, where nothing else will grow. And that the perseverance of this coastal tree will burst forth into glorious flowers – hundreds of fine red stamens, tipped with gold pollen.
If you look closely into this tree, it looks a bit like an Advent wreath I think. (Well, if the Hubble telescope can see Christmas ornaments in space..)
May God bless you this Christmas time, with people you love around you. May you reflect again on the great gift God has given us!
Here’s one of my favourite pieces, the Hallelujah Chorus, from Handel’s Messiah, performed by a flash-mob in Canada in 2010. This is how the angels would appear if they turned up in a food court! The singers all look so joyous as they announce the good news!
On our free wallpaper page
The spirit is like the wind that blows
wherever it wants to… Jn 3:8 CEV.
#13 Free wallpaper –The spirit is like the wind 1440×900
“Let your gentle spirit lead me in the right path…”
Ps 143:10 CEV
#12 Free wallpaper –Let your gentle spirit lead me… 1440×900
Another in our free wallpaper series:
If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
Even there your hand shall lead me,
And your right hand shall hold me fast. Ps 139: 9-10#11 Free wallpapers — If I take the wings… (Example 1440×900)
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Now on our free Christian wallpaper page. There are 7 sizes as usual.
10 Free wallpaper –Even Solomon in all his glory 1440×900
S.D.G.
