Almost anyone you ask is willing to take a photo so that everyone can be included, and then are grateful when the favor is returned. There is no language barrier on this exchange of kindness.
All in Nature
Still and Astonished
Life is amazing, and not just the special times, not just the good times. If we are willing to say, “God is the everything, God is the All,” then we have to be alert for God’s presence in all times, in all places, in all circumstances.
Swimming in Glory, Swimming in God
Scripture points us to God who is not distant and unknowable, but very present, so ubiquitously present that it is easy to allow glory to become simply background noise, easy to be swimming in God and yet be unaware that we are in the water.
Flirting with a Fawn
My senses heightened,
I turned and laid eyes on the gawky youngster.
Welcome Gray Morning
People lament rainy days.
Especially on vacation.
I get it.
Silent Sabbath Morning at Bon Secours
Perhaps this Sabbath,
Mind will settle into heart.
Where I Come From
I come from that old-time religion. I am from a pulpit pounding preaching who put on fishing waders and dunked me all the way under when I was five years old in a white dress...
When Poets Pray
To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you.