PHOTO PRAYER 2024-05 — God help me, I am not passionate about politics or social justice, but I do admire people who are — just as long as they are not dogmatic. Give me Gandhi. Give me the mature Malcolm X. Give me speakers who are passionate but reasonable, people eager to convince me, not […]
Finding Redemption
PHOTO PRAYER 2024-04 — Once you start wondering why things go wrong, sooner or later you will ask why an omnipotent God allows terrible things to happen. An answer I dislike is that God works in mysterious ways, that while individual or even historical tragedies seem bad, they are part of a greater good we […]
I Needed A Break
PHOTO PRAYER 2024-03 — I was working too much and needed a break. Workaholics like me don’t take breaks, so God, seeing my need, gave me two. Today, eight days after my fall, Dr. Sowa and his talented crew set the two broken metatarsals of my left hand back in place. I am now taking […]
“Semicolon” by Cecilia Watson
Not rules but style, not precise descriptions but dreamy enticements! Cecilia Watson‘s little book, Semicolon, surprised me. I expected humorous examples of bad punctuation illustrating why proper usage matters. Instead the meat of the book is a criticism of rules and a celebration of living language. Watson argues that good writers imagine how their words […]
The Same From Age To Age
PHOTO PRAYER 2024-02 — If everyone leaves but new people arrive to replace them, how is it that an organization stays the same? This year, at my church, about ten percent of those who pledged last year did not pledge this year. The total number stayed the same — thank God! — but at this […]
The Task
PHOTO PRAYER 2024-01 — The grains of sand on Waikiki Beach, the stars in Andromeda Galaxy — those numbers are humbled by the number of tasks waiting on my TO DO list. Do I despair? No. Am I dismayed? Occasionally! Yet joy keeps welling up — not because I work more, harder, and smarter; and […]
What Will 2024 Bring?
PHOTO PRAYER 2023-15. Jesus told his followers not to worry, but I do. Being loved and accepted, having food and shelter, keeping my health: these concerns continue. I worry about the Israel-Hamas War; the war in Ukraine less so. (How quickly our concerns change!) The upcoming presidential election. The fear our polarized society will come […]
Offspring of Inspiration
PHOTO PRAYER 2023-14. In my wife’s studio, geometry and color catch my eye. A glance is all it takes. Out comes my camera. As usual, the finished photo barely resembles the brief vision that inspired it. As philosophers have long observed, images cannot capture reality any more than words can capture the spark of inspiration. […]
Connected To Jesus
I know the air He breathed did not stay in Palestine. It spread across the whole wide world. Even now, air He breathed is in my lungs, in my blood. I know, too, that the water in which He was baptized did not stay in the Jordan River. It flowed into the oceans around the […]
Think About Such Things
Hamas has successfully provoked Israel into a war. Both sides now use the deaths and suffering to provoke us to take action, to take sides. God help us! God help us who want to make life better but see others who are provoked making life worse. I cannot sleep but I can write. How can […]
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