Friday's Lightning Stone on Top

Can you tell that I like lightning stones?  On days when there are no pebbles on the water's edge, the shoreline is usually void of beach glass and interesting fossils, but lightning stones and these flat red "skimmers" (That's what I call them) can be found in large numbers.  It's cold at the beach, so these weren't collected today---sorry!  I hope to get back to my "catch of the day" next week.

Today's Inspiration   from Isaiah 54:17a (NKJV)
No weapon formed against you shall prosper.   
(This is a wonderful prayer for protection for yourself and your loved ones, in Jesus' name.)

Thursday's Message

There's just no time for the beach today, so I had to go into my files for a picture.  This one has no glass.  It has no fossils.  It does have some beautiful South Haven sunshine over innumerable grains of sand, a heart-shaped rock, and a sentence that sums up how God feels about you.  Have a wonderful day!

Today's Inspirational Reading  from Psalm 139:16-18a (NLT)

You saw me before I was born.  Every day of my life was recorded in your book.  Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
How precious are your thoughts about me, Oh God!  They are innumerable!  I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!
  

Wednesday's Melted Beach Glass

While there is not much glass in this collection, I was quite excited about the one on the bottom of the picture.  I've been told that when glass has a melted appearance, that it must have been in a fire, so that gets my curiosity going.  Was there a fire on board a ship?  Did that ship go down?  Or did someone on the beach have an extremely hot bonfire?  Who knows?

Aside from three other pieces of glass, you'll notice a perfect pudding stone, a chain coral, pipe organ coral, lightning stone, and I'm pretty sure the black one is basalt with quartz veins.

Today's Inspirational Reading  
   But Jesus remains a priest forever; His priesthood will never end.  Therefore He is able, once and forever, to save everyone who comes to God through Him.  He lives for ever to plead with God on their behalf.     Hebrews 7:24,25 (NLT) 

Tuesday's Mistaken Ones

My Lake Michigan Rock Picker's Guide was a big help today.  It showed me that a couple of my treasures were mistakes.  I thought the quirky-looking rock that was covered in holes was a stink stone.  To test this, all I needed to do was put it in a bag and whack it with a hammer.  If it smelled like rotten eggs, then it contained hydrogen sulfide and would, indeed, be a stink stone.  Needless to say, once broken, there was no odor of any kind.  So much for that!

Next, I had thought the tiny orange stone might be jasper, but it ended up not matching the example photo.  Oh, well.  I like it anyway.  Same goes for the not-so-stinky one.  I like them every bit as much as the Petoskey stone, pipe organ coral, lightning stone, crinoids, and beach glass.

Today's Inspirational Verses  from Psalm 25:8 and Ephesians 2:10a
The Lord is good and does what is right; He shows the proper path to those who go astray.
For we are God's masterpiece.