Seeking God's Face
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I will set the fir and the cypress together so that people may see and know the Lord has done this. |
| 0:08.2 | Isaiah 41, verses 19 and 20. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.3 | Seeking God's face was written and read by Kirsten Holmberg. |
| 0:21.5 | Isaiah chapter 41, verses 17 through 20. |
| 0:26.0 | The poor and needy search for water, but there is none. |
| 0:30.7 | Their tongues are parched with thirst. |
| 0:34.0 | But I, the Lord, will answer them. |
| 0:36.9 | I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. |
| 0:40.4 | I will make rivers flow on barren heights and springs within the valleys. |
| 0:45.5 | I will turn the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into springs. |
| 0:52.1 | I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. |
| 0:57.7 | I will set junipers in the wasteland, the fir, and the cypress together, so that people may see |
| 1:03.7 | and know, may consider and understand that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it. |
| 1:15.5 | Seeking God's face. |
| 1:19.1 | Those who drive along Highway 18 in Western Oregon each fall are greeted with a delightful |
| 1:26.0 | surprise from the tree-covered hillside flanking the |
| 1:29.3 | road, a giant smiley face. |
| 1:33.8 | The cheerful face is only visible in the autumn when the large tree needles turn yellow, |
| 1:40.8 | contrasting with the surrounding dark green Douglas fir trees, which create the eyes and mouth. |
| 1:47.0 | A lumber company planted the 300-foot diameter face in 2011 as part of an effort to replenish the timber they'd harvested. |
| 1:58.0 | Isaiah invites us to know God as the one who brings life to desolate places. |
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