C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional
Friday August 15, 2025

"Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide."-Genesis 24:63
    
    Very admirable was his occupation. If those who spend so many hours in idle company, light reading, and useless pastimes, could learn wisdom, they would find more profitable society and more interesting engagements in meditation than in the vanities which now have such charms for them. We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere. When Jesus is the theme, meditation is sweet indeed. Isaac found Rebecca while engaged in private musings; many others have found their best beloved there.
    
    Very admirable was the choice of place. In the field we have a study hung round with texts for thought. From the cedar to the hyssop, from the soaring eagle down to the chirping grasshopper, from the blue expanse of heaven to a drop of dew, all things are full of teaching, and when the eye is divinely opened, that teaching flashes upon the mind far more vividly than from written books. Our little rooms are neither so healthy, so suggestive, so agreeable, or so inspiring as the fields. Let us count nothing common or unclean, but feel that all created things point to their Maker, and the field will at once be hallowed.
    
    Very admirable was the season. The season of sunset as it draws a veil over the day, befits that repose of the soul when earthborn cares yield to the joys of heavenly communion. The glory of the setting sun excites our wonder, and the solemnity of approaching night awakens our awe. If the business of this day will permit it, it will be well, dear reader, if you can spare an hour to walk in the field at eventide, but if not, the Lord is in the town too, and will meet with thee in thy chamber or in the crowded street. Let thy heart go forth to meet Him.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Queen Vernita Visits Gator Country by Dawn Menge


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The Queen is coming!  The Queen is coming!  Queen Vernita visits Gator Country and boy is it a grand visit.  In her book, Dawn Menge, takes the reader on a year long visit to different places in the Deep South better know as "Gator Country".  In Queen Vernita Visits Gator Country, the reader will learn about the plantation, bayou and even some jazz tradition.  It's an exciting adventure and my the learning experience:  rich culture, music, food and history all rolled into one book.   Each month Queen Vernita spends with a different friend learning all she can about gators, plants and even African European music is thrown into the mix.  Readers will learn new and fascinating facts all along the way.  So if you have a reader that loves learning and is curious about people, animals, and nature all around this would be an exciting book to read.

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About the book:
Queen Vernita Visits Gator Country by Dawn Menge
ISBN: 978-1-4787-2245-8
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Date of publish: April 2014
Pages: 31
About the Author:
Dawn Menge is the author of the Queen Vernita educational series. Her series has won 19 literary awards. Queen Vernita’s adventures include: Queen Vernita’s Visitors, Queen Vernita Visits the Blue Ice Mountains, Queen Vernita Meets Sir HeathyBean, and Queen Vernita Explores the Oceaneer’s Coastline.

A copy of this book was provided by Bostick Communications in exchange for my honest review.

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