Peace As we rapidly approach Christmas (only one week away now), the pressures of the season mount. We must take some time to stop, take a breath, and look at the simple joys and beauties that come with this season. And with that breath... peace.

Generosity Today's image is dedicated to one of the most generous men I have been blessed to know. One of the things I remember most of him is the obvious joy it brought him to give of his time and of himself to children. We will miss you Butch as long as we live.

Healing   Today's theme had me stumped.  I thought about setting up some items from the medicine cabinet for a strange first-aid still life.  But that seemed rather desperate and contrived.  I thought about taking a picture of one of the scars on my body.  But that seemed rather morbid and kinda gross.  And like... Continue Reading →

Presence   I am glad that last week I chose not to use the communion table as my subject material for the the table theme. As a species, humans would appear to be unique in the value we place on symbolism and ritual.  One of the most poignant of all our Christian rituals is the... Continue Reading →

Rock Nothing to add today.   The theme was rock.  I found a self-proclaimed future of said subject.  Voila. (Oh.. and just to make the story complete, the effect I used in GIMP to enhance this photo is called dodge).

Wait We live in a world that praises productivity. We abhor wasting time. We feel tension and stress when we are forced to be idle. Yet, we so often find ourselves in the situation where we are forced to wait on conditions that are out of our control. Today's word begs us to realize that... Continue Reading →

Aware Working together requires that we work in concert. We must be aware of our small role in the bigger picture. We must be aware of the actions of others. This is true in an orchestra.   This is true in all human endeavor! Part of my Advent hope is that we might find a... Continue Reading →

Promise Advent should be a time of preparation. Advent should be a time focused on friends, family, and the hope for coming change. But.. sometimes life gets in the way.  In this case, I am pushing hard up against a delivery deadline (2 days from today) and we are not sure how many more layers... Continue Reading →

Welcome Winter is coming earlier this year.  If you have been following all of my photos in my Advent postings, you may recall that we are one of those "odd" families that welcomes winter and all the beauty snow brings with it. As I left the house this morning, the world was that type of... Continue Reading →

Example Funny how hard it was to settle in on a subject to represent "example," (an example example if you will). We live in a world of examples.  We use them all the time to explain ourselves.  We use them to demonstrate new concepts.  I cannot begin to enumerate all the times I have written... Continue Reading →