Kids these Days

...is was great to be together again.

Succulence's Deception

...yes, more tasty colors of fall here.

Amazing Grace!

Click the pic and just listen!

Bonheoffer...Things More Important

Dietrich Bonheoffer, after being in prison for a year, still another hard year away from his execution, forging long letters to his friend Eberhard Brege out of his strong faith, his anxiety, his longing for his fiancée, and terror over the nightly bombings: “There are things more important than self-knowledge.” Yes. An artist who believes this is an artist of faith, even if the faith contains no god.

-- Christian Wiman, Image, 20th Anniversary Issue

Cultivate Emptiness

We humans, somewhere along the way, seem to have picked up the bad habit of trying to get life on our terms, without all the bother of God, the Spirit of Life. We keep trying to be our own gods; and we keep making a sorry mess of it.

We have so little encouragement to cultivate emptiness.

-- Eugene Peterson, from The Wisdom of Each Other