Lenten Lights S ~ Play In the City Park of New Orleans stands a century-old carousel. Something this old and ornate and fun feels impossible for me to resist photographing. The afternoon light when we visit is not terribly cooperative,…
Read MoreLenten Lights R ~ Visibility Walking through the streets of New Orleans, so much captures my vision: the visible and the hidden. A wrought iron window in a blue door pulls me up for a closer look at its intricate…
Read MoreLenten Lights Q – Desire We are well into the season when all things are made new here North of the Equator. The approaching Easter gathers up its own celebration of life renewed in resurrection. The earth cooperates in abundant…
Read MoreLenten Lights P ~ Memphis Part 2 Today is the birth date of Civil Rights leader, Dorothy Irene Height (1912-2010). It is a lovely serendipitous moment for my Lenten journey because already my intention was to write about the “Freedom’s…
Read MoreLenten Lights O ~ Memphis Part 1 I spent most of the morning on the verge of tears, teaching and explaining through my sadness and grief and outrage and pride. It was my second time through the National Civil Rights…
Read MoreLenten Lights N ~ Guest Post by Frank Thomas Today’s photo and reflection on light come from photographer and friend, Frank Thomas.* Lent and Light ~ Frank Thomas I’m in a position to wait. Camera shake won’t be a problem…
Read MoreLenten Lights L Leonard Cohen captures the human experience like few others. The poetry and atmosphere in “Come Healing” capture the intermingling of Lent’s longing for healing, the chase of light and shadow, and the earth awakening to all that…
Read MoreLenten Lights K ~ Living Water Watch out! Moving through Lent and toward this Sunday’s worship, we are going to get wet. Water is a central character in three readings this week. And how precisely fitting! We humans are more…
Read MoreLenten Lights J – Shamrock! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Meet, Larry Morris, Contributor salesperson, self proclaimed “Black Elvis” and today, Shamrock! Saturday morning, I stopped by McDonald’s in Bellevue for breakfast on the run, and I was totally delighted by…
Read MoreLenten Lights I watercolor vision ~ church year ~ circling seasons __________ Six-Word Stories for Lenten Lights Several years ago I discovered Six Word Stories, inspired by Ernest Hemingway. Photos with six-word stories are scattered around my blog. During the…
Read MoreLenten Lights H ~ Honeycomb Spring is not waiting for the calendar. Today the earth is awake with divine glory. Bees are buzzing. Hives are waking up after a long cold winter. Trees and flowers are opening their buds.…
Read MoreLenten Lights G ~ Lenten Rose II Two Lenten Roses in one week seems both surprising and excessive. Here’s how it happened… As we sat down to dinner my husband said, “There is another of those Lenten Roses blooming in the…
Read MoreLenten Lights F Earlier this week my daughter and I chased the evening light so we could get a walk before dark. We followed the curve of the river along the Harpeth Greenway. She rode her scooter, and I walked…
Read MoreLenten Lights E2 This coming Sunday (3.16.2014) a full moon will rise. The gospel text for Sunday is the story of Nicodemus coming to Jesus under cover of night. Surely Jesus must have gestured to the night sky when he…
Read MoreLenten Lights E ~ Lenten Rose During the snow/ice last Monday, my husband said, “Something is blooming in the flower bed next to the front porch.” “No way!” I said. (Being that he is color deficient, I totally discounted any bloom…
Read MoreLenten Lights D “love surrounds those who trust God” ____________ Six-Word Stories for Lenten Lights Several years ago I discovered Six Word Stories, inspired by Ernest Hemingway. You’ll find the photos with six-word stories scattered around the blog. Today’s…
Read MoreLenten Lights C Lent is one of the church’s two extended seasons of preparation and reflection. Advent is the other. Time in the church’s liturgical calendar is not merely chronological time (or chronos) with one hour following another, one day following…
Read MoreLenten Lights B This afternoon on my way home I stopped by the Greenhills Library and caught the last of the day’s sun on “The Readers.” Writing and reading are among the enduring ways human beings share wisdom and relationships…
Read MoreLenten Lights A Woke up to heavy fog this morning. After dropping off my daughter at school, I headed for the Cumberland River, by way of an untaken path. I ended up at a small boat ramp. I photographed ducks…
Read MoreAnticipating Light Often I discover what I need, and what the world needs of me, are right in front of me or hidden within me. Yet I need light to recognize and receive the gifts and return them to the…
Read More
