"..Pioneer or a Settler?"

Last evening I was going through some files

and I saw this cover of a magazine from 1983 that was so motivating for me then and is to this day. "Pioneer or settler?

This morning I saw a jet traveling across the sky

 at sunrise -vapor trail was colorful

 but it was gone in a few minutes.

"You and I are a great many years older now"

Living a common life and getting through the daily challenges yet so thankful for family, friends, faith, hope and love that make it so worthwhile

 without regret.

"Pleasure and ambition are poor company in the evening years of life." 

So I will keep pioneering as able

 and a be a settler on bedrock truth-

"Behold, You have made my days as short as hand widths, And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.Surely every man at his best is a mere breath a wisp of smoke, 

a vapor that vanishes! 

(Psalm 39:5)

"...and the clouds,Your chariot.."

"Call Him good, my soul, and praise the Eternal.

I am here to declare my affection for You, Eternal One, my God.

You are indeed great—You who are wrapped in glory and dressed in greatness. For covering, You choose light—
Your clothes, sunset and moonrise.

For a tent, You stretch out the heavens; for Your roof, You pitch the sky.

 Your upper chamber is built on beams that lie in the waters overhead,

and the clouds, Your chariot;

You are held aloft by the wind. You make Your messengers like the winds;the breeze whispers Your words,

Your servants are like the fire and flame."

Psalm 104:1-4 (VOICE)

".. the sun comes up,,,new day dawning.."

"And by day he was teaching in the temple,

 and by night, going out, he remained abroad

 on the mountain called [the mount] of Olives; and all the people came early in the morning to him

 in the temple to hear him."

Luke 21:37-38 (DARBY)

"..laughter.."

"He will yet fill your mouth with laughter

    and your lips with shouts of joy."

Job 8:21

Mon secours vient de l'Eternel

"Cantique pour la route vers la demeure de l'Eternel.

    Je lève les yeux vers les monts:

    d'où le secours me viendra-t-il?

  Mon secours vient de l'Eternel

qui a fait le ciel et la terre. 

Psaumes 121:1-2 (BDS)

"..your God carried..."

"The Lord your God who goes before you

 will fight for you Himself, just as He did for you in Egypt before your [very] eyes, and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord 

your God carried and protected you,

 just as a man carries his son, all along the way which you traveled until you arrived at this place.

Deuteronomy 1: 30-31 (AMP)

..Bittersweet

"But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God."

Ruth 1:16 ESV

" Defend ...deliver "

"Defend the poor and fatherless;

Do justice to the afflicted and needy.

 Deliver the poor and needy;

Free them from the hand of the wicked."

Psalm 82:3-4 (NKJV)

" ...Rest .."

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

 He makes me lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside still waters."

Psalm 23: 1-2 (ESV)