life – Page 2 – Pilgrim in Progress

The week in pictures – June 7-13

Be still and know that God is God

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Why it’s okay that two-thirds of me is falling into disrepair!

we were created not just for today but for eternity

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“Rich, in the good things they do…”

Both ends of the life spectrum - and then us in the middle...

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déjà vu all over again (was Selma really 55 years ago?)

we already know what needs to be done. But do we have the will?

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How Do You Spell Hope? (a story of promise, imagination, and hard work)

when hope and imagination and hard work begin to take hold...

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Maybe that’s why they call it the Heartland? (thoughts and photos from a small town that time is passing by…)

Here in Mississippi, Rebekah and I have been visiting in a couple of small towns. Calhoun City – where Polly‘s family are from, and Houston – where we are staying at the Bridges-Hall Manor, an elegant Victorian era B&B. This part of north-east Mississippi is one of those areas that time is passing by. Not…

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a long drive west, and some thoughts about isolation

what a vast, varied, diverse, beautiful country we live in

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We must listen to one another and not reduce communication to the binary equation

Exactly because it is not easy right now we absolutely must go above and beyond to listen respectfully, to dialogue deliberately, and to embrace diversity.