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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

Today’s Advent reading is from the Prophet Zephaniah. God Rejoices Over You!! This good news tells us how great is God’s rejoicing over each one of us! Sometimes we may feel like an insignificant weed, but truly we are creations of great and delicate… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

Let Us Catch the Changing Seasons It is a spectacular thing when cacti blossom! The flowers have a way of overshadowing the cactus, and in the stark landscape of the desert, we can be overcome by their beauty. It is wonderful to catch the… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflection

What an auspicious theme as we begin the Season of Advent: Reflection! And what better place to reflect than in the desert? The photo above was taken while I was driving with another sister from Minnesota to California. It is from the part of… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflection”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful

    You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

New life and the color green – both remind me of hope. As I look out on evergreen trees from my window, I am reminded that the promise of life is all around me as the leaves of the not-so-evergreen trees fall to the… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Green”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal

I love the poetry of Wendell Barry; he is a man of hope. The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry

Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

We conveniently forget what we have been taught. For we read in Deuteronomy 10:19: So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land.” And our President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, Remember, remember always, that all… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign”

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful. ” – David Steindl-Rast from A Listening Heart May we all grow in beauty  . . . daily!