Thursday, April 2, 2009
Anything Will Help
O, Lord God, how wonderful it is to wake to the singing of the birds, to see them flitting about and praising you for each new day. How exciting it is to see the flowers appearing on the earth. Each day there is another of a different kind to brighten my spirits and make me want to sing. Today I saw...
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Monday, March 30, 2009
One Thing I Don't Understand
O Lord God, why do people love guns? How can a man (or woman) point a gun, pull the trigger, and end the life of a helpless old woman lying in a bed in a nursing home? What is there about the feel of a gun? Is it the personal power that it gives?... Something tangible in which to trust? What is in...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
I'm Singing, Lord
W hat a beautiful Spring morning, Oh Lord. The snow is covering the gardens and the sunshine is sparkling on the snow making it quickly melt. Flowers are poking their faces up through the white like pretty babies climbing out from under downy comforters. The blossoms did not freeze last night and...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
All I Need
A photograph I can play with, O Lord. Photobucket makes it so easy. I can crop it--cut off the parts that I don't like or feel do not leave the whole in the best light. I can beautify it by erasing blemishes, hide parts in shadows, soften the effects, tint it, even blur the edges of parts I'd rather...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Monster
It can begin as a collision of ideas, innocent of provocation; or it can be an intentional calling out in a duel of words. However it begins, it soon becomes a monster of hideous proportions, feeding upon itself, feeding upon the epithets hurled and the obloquy employed, growing ever more...
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