“What’s in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet…” (Juliet in Romeo and Juliet) In Shakespeare’s famous play, Juliet and Romeo were descendants of two different feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues. Their families’ hatred for each other became an insurmountable obstacle to their relationship evenContinue reading “What’s in a Name?”
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Behold!
Maybe it’s a butterfly on a tangerine cone flower or an expansive, breathtaking vista. It might be minuscule and cellular or cosmic and grand; simple and stark or intricate and complex; lovely and serene or loud and boisterous; man made or God created. It might be a song, a symphony, a discovery, or an idea.Continue reading “Behold!”
Blooming
This delicate, beautiful, isolated plant shines brightly in an unlikely environment. Somehow it has managed to grow and blossom mostly unnoticed in unfriendly, non nourishing, stark surroundings. Some people are like that. Despite adversity, lack of opportunity, and restrictive circumstances, they shine. They seize the day and “bloom where they are planted.” But that isContinue reading “Blooming”
Just A Glimpse
Andrew Young, a Scottish poet, compared his ongoing but somewhat futile quest for meaning to searching for lady slippers: “…I peer in every place: Seeking for what I cannot find/ I do as I have often done/ And shall do while I stay beneath the sun.” (Lady-Slipper, Orchid) We “see”, and we are amazed atContinue reading “Just A Glimpse”
Maine Lupines
Whether viewing the magnificence and grandeur of our cosmos through a telescope, the naked eye, or a microscope , in the words of the Apostle Paul we are “clearly” seeing God’s invisible qualities–His eternal power and divine nature. A field of lupine in the Spring is not only glorious but is an amazing statement ofContinue reading “Maine Lupines”
Sweet Words from Maine 