From now on, brothers and sisters, if anything is excellent and if anything is admirable, focus your thoughts on these things: all that is true, all that is holy, all that is just, all that is pure, all that is lovely, and all that is worthy of praise.Philippians 4:8 - at the Van Gogh Immersive …
Continue reading “Red Flowers are Red Young Man” – Van Gogh begs to differ
- Beks, always part of the exhibit! This has not been a prolific photography week for me. There is just far too much crowding in and demanding my attention to take time to look through the lens. A few images, however, have come across my desk and are certainly worth sharing. I'll start with the …
Continue reading Beauty and Gratitude, an “artsy” Photo Friday
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him. For he laid the earth’s foundation on the seas and built it on the ocean depths.Psalm 24:1-2 Here is a slight change of direction for today. Art. Monday afternoon I was sitting in the grocery store parking lot, trying to dry …
Continue reading When you expect to experience wonder, that is what tends to happen
An A-B-C book for the grandchildren
Like each one of us, stained glass captures, refracts, and passes on a light that is not its own. God - in creativity and light and love and grace - speaks both into us and into the world through us.
Here's the question that is going through my spirit this morning: If I am an exhibit, representing God's initiatives as an artist, how would the work be interpreted? What would my life say about the Creator? Is the work invitational?
Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you …
Continue reading the frescoes of West Jefferson – going beyond a surface image…
And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. - Matt 6:27-29 …
Continue reading a few photographs from Chadds Ford (with a little help from Andrew Wyeth)
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year …
Continue reading Ravenna, the Rubicon, and personal renaissance as an article of faith
LIFE: As a blogger, first and foremost, I'm a writer. "Life, Gratitude, Faith, & Passion" has been designed from the ground up as a vehicle for me to share words. One purpose is to put more people in touch with my work - because I'm deeply motivated to reach people with a message that I'm passionate …
Derek Maul: Words and Photographs for the Journey 