This week’s travel theme given to us by Ailsa at “Where’s My Backpack” is the word THROUGH.  She has put together a really creative montage of photographs for us this week. Pop over and view her work as well as the work of her contributors at http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/09/20/travel-theme-through/

I gathered these thoughts and photos on the word “Through” during my travels this summer to the transcendentalist commune at Fruitlands and also during my time leading worship In Connecticut at the New England Special Touch getaway.

Through

by JE Lillie

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

We glimpse our best selves through the eyes of others.

Our vision seeming masks

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
Elvis Presley

Soul light asking purchase through the  shade as

Sun in the deeping wood.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

We blinded stood through shadows. Friends enemies

All grasp our Ever task.