Archives for the Month of October, 2010

Reveal: Kelly Sauer Photography

I carry you with me into the world, into the smell of rain and the words that dance between people, and for me, it will always be this way, walking in the light, remembering being alive together. – story people It’s been years in the making, this photography thing of mine. I needed to learn [...]

two teasers and a question for you

“For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh…” (Phil. 3:3) I am living in Philippians recently, sorting things, learning the difference between confidence in Christ and pride in my own “right.” There is much to say, and more to live, and [...]

earthquake – how God makes a life

So somehow, somewhere along the way, I started thinking I had a right. Thinking that I was a right. Thinking that I knew the right. Thinking that nobody else did. And I am tired of the right. The having to have it and be it and know it all the time is the most exhausting, [...]

how i know it’s really autumn

There is a blue, the only blue that holds a harvest-moon and red, red leaves and south-bound vees and homesick calls to Canada across October skies.

[God in the Yard] God is present in my dark

The study for the seventh week in God in the Yard is about presence, finding the presence of God in the dark, when things aren’t clear, when intimacy seems out of reach. As I finally found a moment to sit down and finish the chapter last night, I laughed, wishing I’d saved yesterday’s post for [...]

snapshot of a life

There’s something sacred about the moment before the sun falls into the black, the moment before it rises into day, and we hold these moments and laugh at our busy because we chose it for this while. We meet each other getting up, going down, in the night and in the morning when it is [...]

thinkings

I think that sometimes we live what we are given to live. Our circumstances dictate our identity and our choices, and we rarely think outside the plausible. I wonder then, if we sometimes serve a God who is plausible, assuming that He is limited by the life we know. What if I choose something that [...]