This week the Daily Post has challenged us to photograph ORDER.
You can click the link above to see how the rest of the blogosphere has ordered itself. Or you can find individual blogs to check out below. Here are my thoughts on order…
I love order. I just like to arrange it to look like chaos.- JE Lillie
There are few things more chaotically ordered than nature.- JE Lillie
There is something so orderly about a room crammed with books don’t you think?
This week the Daily Post has asked us to give a pictorial view of the word HERITAGE IN OUR WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE.
You can click that link to see how heritage is playing out across the world stage.
My family heritage goes back here in New England to the Revolution at least. There have been Lillies in the Pioneer Valley and North central MA for well over a hundred years.
This is the grave of the first Joseph Elon Lillie in Erving MA. The name has been passed down to six generations.
But the family heritage has left us more than a name. It has left us a calling. My great great and so forth grandfather (not a Lillie but a Tandy) was an itinerant preacher throughout our area during the holiness movement, back just before 1900. I believe it was his prayers that have bourne fruit in my family and called us to a godly heritage.
I have answered the call to ministry and have spent my life’s work here in North Central MA.
My sister has likewise answered the call and is a missionary in The Netherlands
My three children are all graduates from Bible College.
My son Joe is a teacher in South Korea and an active member of his church there. My daughters are the Rev. Amanda Lillie and the Rev. Melanie Franklin both working in children’s ministry in their churches.
I believe this thing called ministry is not an achievement. It is a heritage a thing conferred first by God and I believe by the prayers of generations past. I am so thankful that this is our life and our heritage.
This post is in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge Reflections.
You can see lots more reflection by clicking the underlined link.
Here is my next in series.
This post is in response to THE DAILY POST’S WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE REFLECTING.
You can see lots of reflections by clicking the underlined link. Here is the first in my series.
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge at The Daily Post is EARTH
You can click that link to see all the responses.
Here are some of my photos of earthly things I converted to something else
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
Pablo Picasso
This week THE DAILY POST HAS ASKED US TO SHOW OUR DENSITY.
Click the link to find lots of dense things.
Here are my attempts:
King Cake
It is a pretty dense pastry.
A density of knowledge
This time of year the snow is always as dense as frozen cement.
dense undergrowth
This week THE DAILY POST HAS CHALLENGED US TO SHOW OUR GREEN SIDES.
Click the link to see hundreds of responses that will make you green with envy.
Here are mine.
Autumn Green
Green in the grave
The Green People
Green Sky
This week the Daily Post has challenged us to RISE UP AND LOOK DOWN.
Click that link to see what posts are on the top of the list.
Here are my photos.
It’s hard not to look down on my dogs when they are only six inches off the ground.
But they have a way of getting on top of things.
This week the Daily post has challenged us to show photos of PLEASANT SURPRISES WE HAVE COME ACROSS ON THE ROAD TAKEN.
Click the underlined link to see the journeys of a thousand miles.
Here are my roads taken and the surprises I found.
The road through the toothpick forest.
The Road to the New Blarney Castle
The road through the roses.
This week the Daily Post has challenged us to release OUR SHADOWS IN PHOTOGRAPHY.
Here are mine
Grounded Shadow
Lighting the shadows
Shadows in the sun
Bridge of Shadows
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