So look in the mirror and pray for the grace To tear off the mask, see the art of your face. ~Michael Card in The Poem of Your Life When I wake up this morning, my bedroom is still pink. It’s been pink now for nine years plus. Every square inch of this house needs […]
Walking Wooden
They’re at it again, these two. Claire and L.L. Asking us to stretch our “creative fibers.” To share our history symbolically. In photographic images. And poetry–a sonnet. Claire challenges us to find five photos that answer five specific questions. I didn’t realize how much my life has been shaped by wood. 1. Who Made Up Your […]
Textures of Text: It’s a Mystery
All mystery feels like fog. It presents hiddenness. It demands strong faith to walk into it believing that one day it will be demystified. ~Luci Shaw It’s a mystery this hunger for the hidden, the faulty that aches for the faultless, the flawed that yearns for the flawless, how the best havings are in the […]
God Moments with G-Ma and Grace: The Soo Locks
It’s time to go home. But Grace saw a movie at school on the Soo Locks. She wants to see them up close and personal. And go through them. The scenery assaults me. We’ve come from peaceful and pristine to chaos and clutter. Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan side. A place of barges and docks and […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Taquamenaw
(Photo of the upper Tahquamenon falls by Grace King) Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree! Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and stately in the valley I a light canoe will build me, Build a swift Cheemaun for sailing, That shall float on the river, Like a […]
Saturday Snaps: Early Bird
Let me shout God’s name with a praising song, Let me tell his greatness in a prayer of thanks. ~Psalm 69:30 (Message)
God Moments with G-Ma and Grace: Around Grand Marais and the Au Sable Light Station
Dennis and Grace are still asleep when I hike down to the beach. On the way, I see my first cedar waxwing. The beach is deserted, and I am alone with the sand and sky and water. We promised Grace a lazy day with no hiking. But then we tell her of another falls […]
God Moments with G-Ma and Grace: Tahquamenon Falls
Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. But still they ignore pleas and commands and warnings. Still they ignore fences, leave the path, and flirt with danger. We watch adults lead their children astray, encourage them to dance in slippery spots. And we talk about how we might not be able to steep ourselves […]
God Moments with G-Ma and Grace: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Today we are fascinated by small things. A sense of history in an old lighthouse. Shades of blues and green. And white. And the dance of light. We marvel at a great blue heron and the reflection of a spotted sandpiper. And we agree–Michigan reflects our Creator at every turn. Then Gracee spies a cross. […]
God Moments with G-Ma and Grace: Sugarloaf Mountain
We stay on the island as long as possible and then cross the Mighty Mac to the upper peninsula. Grace has waited for this all day. We travel west along Lake Superior and soak in the wonder of sky and water. Later He wraps us in pink and lavender and gold. The next day we decide […]
