Lenten Photo Discipline – Day 8: Evil

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Hear No Evil (detail) – print by Helene Wilder

This is the best piece of art that I own.  The bird picking at the fingers of the figure always speaks to me of the way evil tries to pick at us.

Lenten Photo Discipline – Day 7: Wonder

Wonder ~  Presbyterian Style

v. to think or speculate curiously, as in I wonder if anything good will come out of this committee meeting?

n. the emotion aroused by something awe-inspiring, astounding, or miraculous, as in we accomplished something beyond anything we could have done on our own… it must have been God!

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So glad I got to experience wonder (in both senses of the word) at our Retreat Center Board meeting tonight!

 

Lenten Photo Discipline – Day 6: World

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To the home of peace
to the field of love
to the land where forgiveness and right relationship meet
we look, O God,
with longing for earth’s children
with compassion for the creatures
with hearts breaking for the nations and people we love.

Open us to visions we have never known
strengthen us for self-givings we have never made
delight us with a oneness we could never have imagined
that we may truly be born of You
makers of peace.

-From John Philip Newell’s forthcoming prayer book, Praying with the Earth

 

Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. 

Rom. 1:20

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Lenten Photo Discipline – Day 5: Settle

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Psalm 131

Song of Quiet Trust

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up,
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.

O Israel, hope in the Lord
from this time on and for evermore.