Jesus, the Alpha & the Omega
Love in All Its Forms
Reflection: 1 Corinthians 13:4–8, 13; Galatians 5:22–23
Joy is love exulting; peace is love in repose; long suffering is love on trial; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith, is love on the battlefield; meekness is love at school; and temperance is love in training.
Dwight L. Moody (1837 – 1899)
Bible Verse for Today
HH-222: The Waterfall Nebula.
Image Credit: Z. Levay (STScI/AURA/NASA), T.A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage) & H. Schweiker (NOAO/AURA/NSF), KPNO, NOAO. The structure seen in the region of NGC 1999 in the Great Orion Molecular Cloud complex is one of the more mysterious structures yet found in the sky. Designated HH-222, the elongated gaseous stream stretches about ten light years and emits an unusual array of colours. How it had been formed remains unsolved.
NASA Mars Exploration Programme 
Synesthesia is a condition where stimulation of one sense automatically evokes a perception of another sense. People with synesthesia might “taste” words, “smell” sounds, or see numbers as colours. While it’s not known exactly why this occurs, the prevailing theory is that these brains have hyper-connectivity between sensory areas in the brain.
American Psychological Association
Wildlife Conservation Network 
The Kadazandusun people groups are the largest indigenous grouping in Sabah. The largest of these are the Central Dusun, the Coastal Kadazan, the Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan, and the Bundu Dusun. Although these various people groups are scattered across more than half of the state in the western, northern and central portions, most of them live in the interior, usually along one of the many rivers rather than in coastal areas. These groups are all primarily agriculturalists, with rice growing supplemented by vegetable gardening and animal husbandry. Many have also found jobs in the timber industry that has boomed in the last two decades. Village life is usually communal, but those in urban areas tend to be less so.
Global Disaster Alert & Coordination System CDC Travellers’ Health Notices 
The flag of Libya was originally introduced in 1951, following the creation of the Kingdom of Libya. It consisted of a white star and crescent on a triband red-black-green design, with the central black band being twice the width of the outer bands. The design was based on the banner of the Senussi dynasty from Cyrenaica, which consisted of a black field and star and crescent design, and was later used as the flag of the region. The red was selected for the blood sacrificed for the freedom of Libya, black to remember the dark days that Libyans lived under the occupation of the Italians, and green to represent its primary wealth, agriculture, (Libya once being the 'breadbasket' of the Ottoman Empire) and the future prosperity of the country.
The U.S. Department of State Travel Warnings
The UK Foreign Service Travel Advice 
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) was a French artist of French-Italian parents and was born in Paris on December 11, 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter, of the early 1900s, accurately representing the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars and its first omnibuses. Galien-Laloue's works are valued not only for their contribution to 20th-century art but for the actual history, which they document. The Paris Arc de Triomphe was painted in 1941. His work can be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Louvier; Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle; Mulhouse, France.
Idiom of the Day Christianity Today 
PASTOR TALKED ABOUT TORTURE OF INCARCERATED BELIEVERS. Click on the image for more information.
