Matanzas River - “Turn to Me With All Your Heart”

 

Now, therefore,” says the LORD, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”

So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.

Joel 2:12-13

Earth Day - “Fix Our Eyes Not On What is Seen”

 

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” —2 Corinthians 4:16‭-‬18 (NIV)

Washington Oaks State Park - “Reaching Forward”

 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 
Philippians 3:13-14

Earth Day - “In His Hands are the Depths of the Earth”

 In his hand are the depths of the earth,

    and the mountain peaks belong to him.

Psalm 95:4

Shores Waterfront Park - “The Midst of the Sea”

 

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Psalm 46:1-2

Washington Oaks State Park - ‘The Soul Who Seeks Him”

 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.

Lamentations 3:25

Shores Waterfront Park, Florida - “Call to Me and I Will Answer You”

 Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Jeremiah 33:3

Matanzas River, Crescent Bridge - Good Friday

 

Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane.  He said to the disciples, “Stay here while I go and pray over there.”  When he took Peter and Zebedee’s two sons, he began to feel sad and anxious.  Then he said to them, “I’m very sad. It’s as if I’m dying. Stay here and keep alert with me.”  Then he went a short distance farther and fell on his face and prayed, “My Father, if it’s possible, take this cup of suffering away from me. However—not what I want but what you want.”  He came back to the disciples and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, “Couldn’t you stay alert one hour with me?  Stay alert and pray so that you won’t give in to temptation. The spirit is eager, but the flesh is weak.”  A second time he went away and prayed, “My Father, if it’s not possible that this cup be taken away unless I drink it, then let it be what you want.”  Again he came and found them sleeping. Their eyes were heavy with sleep.  But he left them and again went and prayed the same words for the third time.  Then he came to his disciples and said to them, “Will you sleep and rest all night?   Look, the time has come for the Human One to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.  Get up. Let’s go. Look, here comes my betrayer.”

Matthew 26:36-46

Canopy Park - A Walk in the Woods - “Your Word, LORD, is Eternal”

Your word, LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. 

Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures. 

Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you.

Psalm 119:89-91

 

Pellicer Creek Canoe Trail - “Seek the LORD”

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.

Zephaniah 2:3

 

Matanzas River Sunset - “By His Wounds We are Healed”

 

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 53:5

Favor Dykes Park - “I Am the Alpha and the Omega”

 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelations 1:8

Pellicer Creek - “God Knows Us”

 You are always righteous, LORD, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? 

You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are always on their lips but far from their hearts. 

Yet you know me, LORD; you see me and test my thoughts about you. Drag them off like sheep to be butchered! Set them apart for the day of slaughter! 

How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished. Moreover, the people are saying, “He will not see what happens to us.”

Jeremiah 12:1-4

Princess Place Preserve - “Living Signs”

 

God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.”

GENESIS 1:14 (NRSV)

Pellicer Creek Paddle Trail - “Encourage One Another”

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 

1 Thessalonians 5:11

 

Faver Dykes Nature Trail - God is Listening

 The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

 James 5:16

Moultrie Creek Fishing - Be a Servant to Others

 

Serve one another humbly in love.

GALATIANS 5:13 (NIV)

Castillo de San Marcos - “Be Not Forgetful to Entertain Strangers”

 

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

HEBREWS 13:2 (KJV)

Fort Matanzas Beach - “What Shall a Man Give in Exchange for his Soul?

And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Mark 8:34-38

Shores Drive Park, Moultrie Creek - “Everlasting Light”

 

19The sun will no more be your light by day,

nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you,

for the Lord will be your everlasting light,

and your God will be your glory.

20Your sun will never set again,

and your moon will wane no more;

the Lord will be your everlasting light,

and your days of sorrow will end.

Isaiah 60:19-20