Now that the Christmas and New Year festivities have passed, I have made time to review my photographs taken during 2025, which is something I like to do, before all its memories quickly disappear into my photograph archives! Well they say, photos at times speak louder than words, so this blog will be with less words on the photos, I’ll let them speak for themselves! Here are some winter photos to start ….
< A night in Glasgow attending
the ‘Messiah’ >
Wintertime and winter days have their own special memories
The garden is a real pleasure at any time of the year, but Springtime for us means ‘Spring cleaning’ in home and garden. …….
and of course a Spring Holiday to the Isle of Tiree. First the journey ….
Now a quick look at Tiree …….
Those who subscribe to this blog will know that day trips are often a common feature. Here are just some from 2025.
Lastly I’ll show you some more weather shots, which are always a topic of conversation when we meet with others here in Scotland.
Well I find it difficult to choose the pbotographs to display in this type of blog, as some are chosen more for the memory they invoke, than for their photo quality, but I hope you enjoyed my photos as much as I did in putting them together. I finished with photos of the sky during day and night, as I always think it displays in such a powerful way the Glory and Majesty of God. The new 1.5 hr. documentary film released in December 2025 that I watched before Christmas, called ‘Universe designed’ is one I reall;y enjoyed, so no doubt that influenced my choice! (Available on You Tube, Amazon Premier and Netflix)
Of course at Christmas we remember the Glory of God revealed at the coming of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, and recently at Church we have been enjoying a study in John’s Gospel looking at the life and work of the amazing JESUS! Again, you can log-on to greenviewchurch.co.uk then just click on sermons to listen to the latest or past sermons.
In writing about the amazing JESUS I was reading in the Bible at the book of Colossians this week and came across this famed passage in Paul’s letter, which illustrates how amazing He is! It reads – ‘The Son (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation — if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel’.
I’m so happy to know that although I was once alienated from God and an enemy in my mind because of my evil behaviour, I have now been reconciled by faith in Jesus Christ and His dying love for me. So this amazing Jesus is just a childlike prayer away, spoken from the heart: ‘Sorry dear Lord Jesus for my sin. Thank you for dying for me, Please forgive my sins and come into my heart and life as my Saviour and Lord. Amen’. ….. now you are reconciled! Praise Him.
Wherever you are I wish you God’s blessing as we look forward to 2026
Matthew
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