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WPC: This Too Shall Pass
This week THE DAILY POST HAS ASKED US TO POST PHOTOS OF TRANSIENT THINGS.
Here are my thoughts on things that come to go.
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. Arnold Bennett
Lord, what are human beings that you care for them,
mere mortals that you think of them?
4They are like a breath;
their days are like a fleeting shadow. Psalm 144:3,4
Here are some more transient things:
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sky
This week’s Fun Foto Challenge With Cee is about the Sky.
You can see lots of skies with Cee by clicking the link above. My sky photos are below along with a few quotes I like about the sky.
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. Anne Frank
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. Marcus Garvey
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WPC: Earth Connection
This post is in response to The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Charles Spurgeon
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WPC: Earth Laughs
This week the Daily Post has challenged us all to depict through photographs the subject
You can find all the links to the good earth by clicking the underlined word above. Here is my first take on the matter.
Valley Forge Park
Tulips
The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fun Foto Challenge: Harvest Earth
It is time once again to take part in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week’s photographic theme is HARVEST EARTH.
My thoughts are cast like seed below. The rest of the world can be seen with their harvests over at Cee’s site behind the underlined link above.
The harvest is great but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send laborers into His harvest field.- Jesus of Nazareth
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Look Up!
I am answering this a little behind the times but since Cee is off line for a few days, I will use that time to catch up on a few challenges. This week Cee has asked us to show photos we took while LOOKING UP.
Click the underlined link to find other “LOOKING UP PHOTOS”
Here are mine:
For great is your love, higher than the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
5Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let your glory be over all the earth. Psalm 108:4,5
“… and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought,
because I think he could have beautiful thoughts,
and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You’re Doing Just Fine
I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
2My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1
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Share Your World Feb. 27, 2017
It’s that time of the week which I set aside to SHARE MY WORLD.
Share your world is a challenge hosted by Cee Neuner. In the challenge she asks five questions and in sharing our answers we, her contributors, share our worlds. Check out the underlined link above to see how Cee’s other contributors answered. The weekly questions and my answers are below:
Ever ran out of gas in your vehicle?
Never. I think I am way to paranoid to run out of gas. I am constantly checking the gauge. I don’t usually fill up until the low fuel light goes on, though, unless I am on a long trip and then I never let it get below a half tank.
Which are better: black or green olives?
I like black olives best.
If you were a great explorer, what would you explore?
OK. I am going to take a flight of fancy here. I am going to be an explorer of the dimensions beyond ours.
Quotes List: At least three of your favorite quotes?
Here are three from a book I am currently reading entitled, THE WAR OF ART, by Steven Pressfield
“…fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.”
“The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.”
and while this last quote is not really my favorite I thought it was pretty insightful concerning the difficulty of being an artist.
“You know Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen and moved to Vienna to live and study. He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts and later to the school of architecture. Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I’ll say it anyway; It was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.”
Optional Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am grateful that this week I have been ploughing through some of the writing assignments my publisher has given me. I am grateful to have a plan that prioritizes my writing time in place. This next week I am looking forward to working that plan again.
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Christian Art Quotes #10
“You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don’t let that concern you. It’s your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.” Anton Chekov
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Christian Art Quotes #9
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God and not in God Himself.” Unamuno
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