Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor. Proverbs 21:21 - morning walk with the umbrella This morning, as you can see if you look out your window pretty much anywhere in the Southeastern United States, is wet, blustery, and full with some part of Hurricane Ian's enormous reach. We're expecting heavy rain all …
Continue reading Ten Images – bright and soggy – for Photo Friday (Sept 30)
Jesus: "Be careful that you don’t practice your religion in front of people to draw their attention. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven."Matthew 6:1 - Rebekah with David and Beks Note: Photos by Naomi Rebekah Campbell I just love it when something happens that lights a …
Continue reading Faith and Art and Politics and More: Looking Beyond the Noise to See the Truth!
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)
Derek Maul: Words, Photographs, and Food for the Journey 