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…
Read more When you expect to experience wonder, that is what tends to happen
An A-B-C book for the grandchildren
Read more a post I’ll bet you didn’t see coming (yes, sometimes I doodle too)
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…
Read more 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…
Read more 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…
Read more 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…
This morning – Advent Day 14 – I’d like to pick up again on the idea of “What can I give him, empty as I am” (See Dec 11 post, In The Bleak Midwinter). We all come equipped with gifts. God has gifted each and every one of us with passions, skills, abilities and sensibilities,…
Sometimes I don’t post on my blog because I’m too busy, we’re traveling, the Internet is down, or I simply have nothing to write about. Then there are days like today, when my only excuse is playing golf. Unlike our Brandon home, we’re not actually on the golf course here. But the second tee is…
