I am in a big city for a scientific conference – and it is a beautiful city. I am staying in walking distance to the convention center – walking across the beautiful bridges – it is truly amazing how MANY bridges there are! The city shines with light and is a blend of old and new. I know that I have very little time here – but will max out my moments.

With the meeting, I am learning about new-to-me skills and science instrumentation – enjoying sharing and networking – as well as innovations and modernizations. I am appreciative of learning science – and of teaching science – but mostly I think that I am blessed to have a brain and to WANT to use it.

And that is where we have to realize that we are to SHINE where the Lord places us – we have to carry our JOY with us – and tap into it and to tap into the LORD wherever we are – God is EVERYWHERE – so we can go ANYWHERE – and we can especially remember that people are people everywhere – it is not for us to be “what about me” all the time – it is a chance for us to say, “Lord – where do the people need to see YOUR SHINE?”

Well, I’m not here to take over the world – but to BRIDGE to my future – to walk WITH the Lord – and to have PERSERVERENCE in living – and to have STEEL in my bones to stand up strong – and stretch myself.

Of course – thanks to the LORD for His Scriptures which remind us to SHINE wherever we are.

Job 41:32 – “He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.”

Psalms 80:19 – “Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.”

Job 37:15 – “Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?”

Psalms 80:3 – “Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.”

Numbers 6:25 – “The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:”

Psalms 80:7 – “Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.”

Isaiah 60:1 – “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.”

Job 36:32 – “With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.”

Psalms 31:16 – “Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.”

Psalms 119:135 – “Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.”

Psalms 67:1 – “(To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song.) God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.”

Job 3:4 – “Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.”

Job 41:18 – “By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.”

Matthew 5:16 – “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”

Job 22:28 – “Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.”

Job 18:5 – “Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.”

Matthew 13:43 – “Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”

Job 11:17 – “And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.”

Philippians 2:15 – “That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;”

Psalms 104:15 – “And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.”

Revelation 21:23 – “And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.”

Psalms 80:1 – “(To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.) Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.”

Daniel 9:17 – “Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.”

2 Corinthians 4:6 –  “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Job 10:3 – “Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?”

2 Corinthians 4:4 – “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”

Matthew 17:2 – “And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.”

Daniel 12:3 – “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.”

Isaiah 13:10 – “For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.”

Ecclesiastes 8:1 – “Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.”