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Posting for Chris...

That's quite a wasp, Chris!  It's sort of differently shaped than the ones I see over here.

You have the most beautiful flowers!

nice shot.  great capture of the bee -- a whole lot closer than I would care to be!

Hi, it's a tiny woodwasp, dont worry, lol our ordinary wasps are bigger, and boy, do they sting!  

Chris, isn't that really a wonderful verse in Psalm 19:10?

QuoteMore to be desired are they than gold,
Yea, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Having been raised in a  beekeeping family I understand how very sweet the honey is right out of the honeycombs.  Sometimes we'd take a spoonful as Dad was uncapping the wax caps that the bees had put on to seal each little cavity and it would almost catch at the back of our throat it was so sweet and yet this verse tells us that the judgments of the Lord are far sweeter than honey, more desired than fine gold!  This is hardly imaginable to me with my finite mind.  

I went over to the littly devotional that Al Moak wrote on Psalm 19 and was blessed further by his quote there...

QuoteWhy is it so precious? Because we are a fallen race of people, and because sin has clouded our minds.  We need it, says David, because, "Who can understand his errors?" Without the Bible we can't really know God, and we can't really even know ourselves!

Thanks Chris for this reminder today.

I went through Psalm 19 just now and found a few points that are so precious to me...

• The law of the Lord is perfect
  
• The testimony of the Lord is sure~vs.7
  
  
• The statutes of the Lord are right
  
• The commandment of the Lord is pure~vs. 8
  
  
• The fear of the Lord is clean
  
• The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous~vs. 9
  
  
• More to be desired are they than gold~vs. 10
  
  and finally...
  
  
• Moreover by them is thy servant warned:  and in keeping of them there is great reward.~vs. 11

How wonderful our God is!

England. 3.45 p.m.

Thanks Chris and Pat.....
I will have to show this to my daughter, she's terrified of bees.   I love them and we get quite a few in my back garden.  I have to rescue some from my 2 cats....

I've popped this one into my picture file...with lots of others from you gifted folk at C.P.

Love the tales of your honey infested childhood Pat......and you don't take sugar!

I'm not showing off.  I had to look this up, I couldn't remember chapter and verse, just the story:-.........................

"and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion..and Samson made there a feast".  Judges 14:5-10.

Tate and Lyle's Golden Syrup tins have these words on them "Out of the Strong came forth sweetness".

Jenny.