Life slips past in a blur. We see through glass dimly. We might lose the path. Sometimes the journey is scary. Maybe we feel alone. We don’t know what’s over the next hill. But it only takes one call. And He’ll be there. “But I call to God, and the Lord saves me.” Psalm 55:16 […]
Unexpected Beauty in the Light
Last Sunday we woke up to a winter wonderland. Cold. Blustery. Beautiful. Of course, I had to run outside and capture it. I shut the flash off on the little girl camera. And then I switched to auto and let the flash go off. I was unprepared for what I would see. The light revealed […]
Reflections on @stickyJesus: Chapter 1
Shine. Online. I wanted to be a missionary when I grew up. Didn’t happen. Or did it? Could it? Today I live in the Land of Shiny Things (L.O.S.T.) Tami and Toni remind me that that is not a mistake. That I was (you were) born for such a time as this. A time when […]
Sneaky Black and White
Get Out! In Black and White said Claire. Stretch yourself. Find a place where there’s a lot of activity. Fade into the background. Fix your sights on an unsuspecting subject. (Okay, she didn’t exactly say that.) Snap and run. (She didn’t exactly say that, either.) “Does that mean birds are out?” I asked. We have […]
A Gift of Compassion
I just looked through this catalog, and I’m so giddy with excitement that I can’t sit still. My heart leaps with joy at the creative possibilities. Perfect gifts. That teach the real meaning of Christmas. That don’t cost an arm and a leg. Unless you want to spend an arm and a leg. Or spend […]
Resting on a Monday
She’s eaten. Had her diaper changed. I doubt you want to see a photo of that! Played on the floor. And laughed at the cats. She’s had her way. But now she struggles. Thrashing this way and that. I know what she needs. But she does not want to give in. We try the high […]
Motion~In More Than 140 Characters
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~William Faulkner Note: I took this photo at a basketball game yesterday. It’s terrible. And I love […]
From the Inside Out and Up
when we see as a child peace perches in our hearts and feathers of joy take wing. In response to High Calling Focus photo prompts on Looking Out and Capturing Expression as we seek to live our faith behind the lens. Note: The first photo is my granddaughter at her big sister’s basketball game. I […]
The Intimacy of Prayer
She made me uncomfortable. She made me squirm. I didn’t want to think about it, much less write about it. I plugged my ears and sang, “Lalalalalala.” L.L. quotes Sister Wendy Beckett, nun and art critic, as saying when she speaks about Piero Della Francesca’s painting, The Baptism of Christ: “Jesus is totally folded in […]
Book Review: Snow Day by Billy Coffey
Billy Coffey has a gift. Billy Coffey is a gift. ‘Nuff said. But I’ll say more. Because for some of us, the snows of life are here. Or been. Or coming. It’s time to call in well, and hunker down with Snow Day. Because we need to find the gifts in the blizzards. The beauty […]
