I don’t know what it is. But it’s awash in flowers. And fragrance oh so sweet. I want to bundle the branches to my nose. Except for the buzzing. The tree is bee heaven. All kinds. I stand under the pink canopy for a full 30 minutes. Trying to capture a bumblebee. Through my lens, […]
Textures of Text: Just… A Moment
There’s a place I go when I need to center. When my spirit feels a bit ruffled. When I have just a moment. I go to Just… a Moment. Susan Etole sees deep. She finds the incredible through her camera lens and pairs her images with simple words. Beautiful words. Like these lines from Monday’s […]
Monday Meditation: Bitter Turned to Beauty
The pot brewed bitter. Hurt and anger bubbled. Until the mixture burst its bounds. Words popped, veiled in humor. But cork screwed heart hole, burrowed deep. And I could not retrieve it. Though I tried at once, the one who bears the wound preferred to embrace it a little longer. And would not speak the […]
Saturday Snaps: Squirrel!
Stuffed, How exquisite your love, O God! How eager we are to run under your wings, To eat our fill at the banquet you spread as you fill our tankards with Eden spring water. You’re a fountain of cascading light, and you open our eyes to […]
Monday Meditation: Love Dripped and Joy Stained
I did not plan to attend. But this morning He slipped me a free ticket. A front row seat to a royal performance. One splashed with lavish colors and stroked with holy brush. Love dripped and joy stained. I hold my breath as the curtain rises on a white-spattered Crayola-sapphire backdrop. As the light comes […]
Through and Through Life: Celebrating Joy in Photos
Sometimes joy hides right in the open. Waits for me to notice. Thrums with sweet surprises to melt life bitter. While I look squinty eyed right at her. Or past her. Or through her. But with my God-tinted lenses, I see her. In the midst of the storm. And a grandgirl hidden in […]
Saturday Snaps: Contemplating the Cross
Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. ~Luke 9:23 Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him […]
Saturday Snaps: Tree Blossoms
Let Wilderness turn cartwheels. Animals, come dance, Put every tree of the forest in the choir– An extravaganza before God as he comes As he comes to set everything right on earth, Set everything right, treat everyone fair. ~Psalm 96:12-13 (Message) God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and […]
Fuel for the Weekend: On Seeing Red
I was never a great fan of red. Until I studied Rahab’s scarlet cord and learned about the towla worm. And now my heart skips whenever I see it. In a bowl of berries. In a cardinal’s tuft. In a downy drop. In a flicker’s blaze. In […]
Window on Writing: When Words Won’t Come
When the body’s weary and words won’t come take a nap take a walk snap some pictures and chew on words that nourish your writer’s heart. The line of words fingers your own heart. It invades arteries, and enters the heart on a flood of breath; it presses the moving rims of […]
