It is amazing what a map can do to bring to life events in the Bible.
Today, David P. Barrett of Bible Mapper Atlas posted a map of the events of 2 Samuel 15-16 where David leaves Jerusalem after hearing that his son Absalom has been declared king in Hebron.
Below is the map from Bible Mapper Atlas detailing the events. The events are described in more detail on the site along with links to other maps.
Once upon a time the leaders of the town where the lad used to live decided to conduct a series of investigations to find out precisely what happened to the lad in all its gory details. However, no one actually saw the lad get eaten by the big bad wolf in spite of the tall tales offered to tourists.
One investigation centered on the lassies who said they were kissed by the lad and had vowed never ever to wash that spot again. These lassies were highly popular with the tourists.
The town leaders commissioned the most renowned scientist they could afford to construct from those unwashed spots where the lad kissed these gorgeous lassies his full DNA sequence that they planned to display in their newly opened museum. In spite of there being hundreds of distinct Y-chromosomes on those unwashed spots our brilliant scientist was able to swing a home run by miraculously producing with the help of a random number generator the commissioned DNA sequence that allowed him to live happily ever after.
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Denise offers “swing” as the prompt word for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Here are two photos of South Beach at the southern section of Miami Beach, Florida.
There is a platform that allows one to look out over the water. Even the birds like it.
Posted for Pepper’s One Step prompt.
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Dale offers the prompt “looking up” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
As it turns out recently there was a total eclipse of the moon. The only problem was it would occur about 5 am. So I set the alarm. The next problem I had not anticipated was clouds, but even the clouds cooperated enough. Then I wondered if my phone could get clear enough images.
Anyway, here are the best of the lot including one from the moonrise a few hours earlier.
Once upon a time there was an ever-growing clan of pigeons who found the statue of the lad and the big bad wolf as attractive as the photographers who featured photos of it everywhere. It was a beautiful bronze color, that is, it was until the pigeons did what they normally do when they float over your head and take aim.
Over the years people thought the spots turned the statue into a magical masterpiece that the town council – to save funds – cheerfully agreed to leave uncleaned. Eventually all that the tourists who came looking for the statue could find was a huge whitish gray, compost wannabe pile that the pigeons kept contributing to.
Thankfully most tourists thought the artistic touch added by the pigeons was even more impressive than the original statue which was no longer visible. By doing nothing the town found itself living happily ever after.
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Denise offers “float” as the prompt word for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “first signs of spring” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I can’t tell which season it is where I am now except by where the sun sets in the west.
Regardless what it is actually doing the sun keeps moving across the horizon back and forth throughout the year.
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YES, it can!
In the following video Henry B. Smith, Jr from the Associates for Biblical Research interviews Bryan Windle who provides a top ten list of archeological discoveries that justify taking the book of Esther in the Bible as actual history.
As a conclusion, Windle quotes Karen H. Jobes’ NIV Application Commentary on the book of Esther:
Judaism and Christianity rest not on the inward, mystical journey of the mind and soul of the individual, but on events in history through which the Creator-Redeemer God revealed himself to people.
Biblical narratives such as Esther are the record of those events in the form of story. Purim would be a hollow religious celebration if the Jews in Persia had not truly been delivered from destruction.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 