The View From Above…

Recently while flying at 30 thousand feet and viewing the vast, changing landscape below, the question crossed my mind as to whether I was closer to God at that altitude. After all, a number of Bible accounts tell about God’s mountain top revelations. However, the descriptives of being “closer to” or “further from” God speakContinue reading “The View From Above…”

Beauty or Burnout?

If we do not believe in God or do not perceive Him as Someone who is interested in our lives, we miss His voice speaking to us through creation’s beauty. Also, at times, our psychic and physical energies have been so overwhelmed and dissipated with the busyness and preoccupations of hectic days that we experienceContinue reading “Beauty or Burnout?”

Safely Anchored?

Precariously perched on a piece of seaweed tenuously attached to a lobster buoy, this little sandpiper seemed a bit disconcerted as its world swirled madly around it. We know what it is like to be overwhelmed, to lose the meaningful context of our lives, to become disoriented by chaotic ideas and events rushing in uponContinue reading “Safely Anchored?”

Punctuating Life…

Tumbling in at first light, scrambled, fragmented, shrouded and incomplete Thoughts – mixed, imagined, punctuated with question marks, exclamation points, commas, periods, and more- waiting to be untangled, sorted, aligned aching to be finalized, completed, emphasized into a moment, a paragraph, a chapter, but sometimes troubled into an ellipsis … a pause hanging in considerationContinue reading “Punctuating Life…”