still eludes in crashingcrushing purge of rolling wave upon sandupon shore, in breaking stone and silver bone and wood to salted grain breath floats awaywith bird-wings on wind mounting cool and warmbeneath wingsleaving earth behind, leaving me to stand wishing,hopingbelieving i couldfly if i wanted to. (Image © Informal Moments Photography)

Sometimes the living is more than the processing of it; that is what my weekend was. We went to a wedding where I took no pictures, talked with the bride only briefly, didn’t even meet the groom. I missed my camera when we passed a local cat taking in the status of the wedding guests [...]

“I enjoy the challenge,” I told P the other day. The challenge of writing at least something every day, putting some words together, casting something of me out into the world on my blog. Hoping to be noticed. Wishing to define my worth to you. Or prove it to me. But the “high thoughts” I [...]

Several years ago, God really challenged me to speak the truth in my heart before Him. I don’t just mean speaking the Truth – reciting Scripture, etc – but setting aside my own self-justification and ideas of what was true about me and being completely honest with Him about what I knew was going on [...]

“I think of my children asking me why God created mankind if mankind was going to make battlefields and slums and insane asylums. The city around our pleasant apartment building is not an easy place in which to see the hand of God. Mankind has imposed its imprint of ugly buildings and dirty streets and [...]

I had an interesting revelation this morning while I was cruising around in Flickr. Several times in the last week, I’ve run across photos from non-Christian photographers of pillows and blankets and beds and soft and things that make you think of rest. Many of these were shot off on Sunday. With commentary about refreshment [...]