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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

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This week’s challenge from http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/weekly-photo-challenge-sea/ is the word :SEA

Here are my word pictures:

Chatham MA There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare

Chatham MA There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

 

Falmouth MA

Falmouth MA-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

Port Clyde ME- Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea! William Booth

Port Clyde ME- Look! Don’t be deceived by appearances – men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
William Booth

 

 

The Zeiderzee, The Netherlands

The Zeiderzee, The Netherlands- A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn’t. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
John Millington Synge

 

 

Weekly Travel Theme: Distance

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Well last week I was at a distance from my computer and could not take part in the weekly travel theme. This week I have once again drawn close to the comforting click of the keyboard and so I can participate in this week’s theme from Ailsa which is: DISTANCE. If you would like to read more posts from a distance go to http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/08/30/travel-theme-distance/

Here is  my photographic take  on the matter:

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. Henry Ward Beecher

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher

 

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. Charles Lindbergh

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Charles Lindbergh

 

I took these photos while visiting the Fruitlands Museum in Ayer MA with our artist’s group.

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. Dwight L. Moody

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Dwight L. Moody

This photograph was taken in the Oude Kerk in Delft, The Netherlands.

 

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree

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This week’s photography challenge from http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/photo-challenge-carefree/ was on the subject “CAREFREE”. How much fun is that? swing on over and unload you worries at the Daily Post!

Pastor Wrinkles: The Lenten Journey Pt. 3

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We wake, if ever we wake at all, to mystery.- Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever we wake at all, to mystery.- Annie Dillard

Brent Curtis writes, “The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story.  The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.” ( The Sacred Romance, Pg.7)

This journey is so compellingly different from the 21 day spiritual journey I walked through in January. Two weeks ago my prayers were so focused, directed and led by the visions God was giving me. Now I am spending long hours in prayer just staring into space and asking God “Show me…show me what’s in my heart.”

I don’t know how I know this but I am certain that this  season…this journey is about healing my heart so that it may be ready to receive the  God dreams He has promised me. The change must come in order for my life to support the dreams He is giving birth too.

I feel like something in me is awakening and I don’t know what it is. I only know that this awakening is exciting and frightening all at once: Exciting for the promise it brings of forward movement (because how can I move if I am asleep);  Frightening because I know it will call me to face and come to terms with some of the confusing stuff that has happened.

Fredrick Buechner writes, “If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think that HE speaks  to us largely through what happens to us…”

While I believe God has many ways to speak to us I do believe He uses our past circumstances to teach us deeply about the life HE longs for us to have. So what is God teaching me through my past about my future?

What has God spoken through your past circumstances?