A light in the darkness

Texture by Kim Klassen; Way, 100% multiply Faith shines brightest in the dark. ~Unknown It's no secret we all have dark days. Days, weeks and even months of disappointments, frustration and broken dreams. Why are some people able to shine through the darkness while others get consumed by the black abyss? Truly, it's a question …

I is for Israel (Jacob)

Family dysfunction at its finest. That's what we find with the grandson of Abraham. Jacob, the great patriarch of the Old Testament, was the son of Isaac and fraternal twin brother to Esau. And that's where our story begins. Jacob is a mama's boy. When his older, stronger and much bigger brother, Esau, straps on …

Do you have an ever green spirit?

 Texture by Kim Klassen: Just Be 70% screen The pine stays green in winter…wisdom in hardship. ~Norman Douglas Or, in this case, the cedar tree. We tend to relate season of winter with seasons of hardship in our lives. Depending on where we live, winters tend to be long and hard, with gray days and …

A caterpillar lesson

Our Quotography prompt this week is Butterfly...which have been scarce in my yard this summer. I did find a shot in my archives from this past Spring. And the quote has always been one of my favorites. Probably because I've been that caterpillar numerous times in my life. Linking up with Quo­tog­raphy

Dead wood in our lives

  We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ~David Sarnoff Tanner and I have been regularly walking the neighborhood since March. During one of our spring walks, we rounded the corner to find a casualty of one of our violent Midwest storms. Not sure …