iPhone Diary Series: Lent

   

  iPhone Diary: 15 February 2010

O God of all creation,

hear our cries.

Chaos swirls about.

Doubt clouds our vision.

Rhetoric dulls our hearing.

How long must we wait?

When, when O Lord?

When will there be new ways of thinking, new wine?

When will compassion infuse the darkness of distrust and prejudice?

When will all God's children be honored as they are created?

O God... let it be soon.

--Lillian Smith Tharp, from her poem "Sing a New Song"

Gifts from Within, Morehouse Publishing, 2002

iPhone Diary Series: Lent

iPhone Diary: 15 February 2010

O God, you are my God; eagerly I seek you;

my soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you,

as in a barren and dry land where there is no water.

Therefore I have gazed upon you in your holy place,

that I might behold your power and your glory.

For your loving-kindness is better than life itself;

my lips shall give you praise.

-- Psalm 63: 1-3 (BCP p. 670)

iPhone Diary Series: Lent

iPhone Diary: 15 February 2010

The most simple spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest because none of us wants to be with someone we don't love. To be with our own thoughts and feelings, to stop the addictive prayer wheels and just feel what we're feeling, think what we're really thinking, is probably the most courageous act most of us will ever do.

--Fr. Richard Rohr

Radical Grace, p. 106

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Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

iPhone Diary: 20 March 2009

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Happy Mardi Gras to all!

iPhone Diary: 6 February 2010

                                    

Silence

When I'm not taking pictures with my iPhone, I use a Pentax SLR. This is one of my first digital successes, taken c. 2006 on the Audubon Plantation near St. Francisville, La.

Silence

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iPhone Diary: 16 June 2009

No longer will they call the city Deserted,

or name its land Desolate.

The city will be called by a new name

that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.

--Isaiah 62: 4 & 2b

(adapted from NIV)

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iPhone Diary: 28 March 2009, 2 p.m

iPhone Diary: 28 March 2009, 2 p.m.