renewing my view

He took me to the woods

sat me down
among the pine
amidst the lines of granite

and showed me gold

twas far and away
beyond the grey
of my everyday

believing



"Go now and then, for fresh life....." John Muir

Note: This is a busy image and when i look at it i think it is an apt illustration of life itself. The living, dying, messy, ordered beautiful scene is one we can all relate to. I hope you are finding time and ways to hush yourself and see the gold in your every day existence. 

Photo taken in Kings Canyon National Park, California.

october morning mystery

how can i show
what the sky
said to me

how can one see

a
whispering



"There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our
overburdened spirits. There is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer."
                                                     ~Calvin Coolidge (speech) July 25, 1924

choosing light, late

enjoy the full moon

her email read

twas late

but i unarmed the alarm

threw open the bolt

and stepped out

onto cold concrete

barefoot

how is it

i fail to avail myself

of such wonder

(sitting instead behind

the latch)

night after

glorious 

night?

"It was never the right time, or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it." 

                                  ~Ann Patchett (Bel Canto)

words spoken to a bunny

there you sit little one
in a world fraught with
danger

don't fear me
for i am kin

i know what it's like
to be frightened
to feel that the only safe move
is no move
at all

seeing you reminds me
of the profound tenderness
with which Jesus sees us both

understanding as He does
all that it means
to live on this tiny, beautiful,
and dangerous
planet



"He came with them to a place called Gethsemane......where He began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then He said to them, "My soul is very grieved, even unto death, stay and watch with me."
                                                                                                          Mt. 26:36-38

Our Savior King, is indeed able to sympathize with our weaknesses. Heb. 4:15

august afternoon miracles

yesterday
i took an afternoon walk

i felt a cool breeze
on my face
and saw white clouds
in a blue sky

i heard crows, turkey,
and tiny creatures
like locusts and frogs

i smelled freshly mown
hay

my feet and legs carried me
up a hill and
back down

i breathed
in
and out

all of these things happened

they
really did




"The most incredible things about miracles is that they happen."
                                                                      -  C.S. Lewis

pondering faith along I 70

somewhere along 

the journey

we begin to realize

the truth we've believed

but never really known

"life on earth

is but a vapor"

indeed

sadness indwells 

the quickening

but while days

blur into decades

something called hope

rises from the earth

like trees from prairie grass

we hear it in the carefree laughter of children

we see it

in the forgiving eyes of the old

astonishingly

it is our daily privilege

to take hold of it

or let it

go

"Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."

                                                                                            ~Hebrews 12:1

drama in the heavens

"The Light shines in the darkness
and the darkness has not overcome it..."
nor shall it ever


*So says the book of John, and so says the heavens.

"It is light, not dark, that is the end of all things."  Frederick Buechner