There are two major factors in the creation of a bog. The first is the lack of a moving source of water. The other is having someplace for the water that does accumulate through run off and rain to go. In a word or two a bog has poor drainage. Couple that with the sphagnum moss sponge that floats on top of the bog and you have yourself one beautiful bog.
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July 16, 2008 23:05
Lessons from the Bog: Poor Drainage is the Opportunity of Life
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July 13, 2008 18:51
Lessons from the Bog: Surrender
The process is rather simple and natural. A pond or small lake is devoid of a source of moving water and becomes stagnate. Decomposing plant matter begins to suspend in the water and then to settle on the bottom of the water. Sphagnum moss begins to creep inward from the shoreline until the water is completely overwhelmed. In time, the once living lake surrenders to terrestrialization.
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June 01, 2008 22:54
Lessons from the Bog: Sustaining Life
One of the unique characteristics of the bog is that of its hostile environment.
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April 12, 2008 19:55
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18
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Year after year the sphagnum moss encroaches on the once pristine lake. Where once clear water ran, now only clouded brown water remains. Where fish once jumped and swam, now only lifelessness remains. Time marches on for the bog. Each year leaves less of the lake and more of the bog. Each year sees a smaller circle of water remain. Though it is slow, the bog moss and the peat claim the lake.
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April 12, 2008 18:34
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April 12, 2008 12:53
Uniquely Made, Uniquely Gifted
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!Psalm 129:13-14, 17 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you . . .Jeremiah 1:5 (More)
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April 11, 2008 21:08
Lessons from the Bog: Spiritual Acidity
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD;” And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Psalm 32:3-5 (More)
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April 11, 2008 07:44
Lessons from the Bog: Forgiveness
For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.Matt 6:14, 15 (More)
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April 09, 2008 21:46
Lessons from the Bog: False Security
I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. How blessed is the man ho has made the LORD his trust . . .”Ps 40:1-2, 4a
