Saturday, February 27, 2010

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

Monday, February 22, 2010

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)



Saturday, February 20, 2010

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


Wednesday, February 17, 2010

iPhone Diary Series



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


iPhone Diary: 20 March 2009


Tuesday, February 16, 2010

iPhone Diary Series



Happy Mardi Gras to all!


iPhone Diary: 6 February 2010

                                    

Friday, February 12, 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


Wednesday, February 10, 2010

iPhone Diary Series



iPhone Diary: 6 February 2010
                                                     

Friday, February 5, 2010

iPhone Diary Series



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)



Wednesday, February 3, 2010

iPhone Diary Series



iPhone Diary: 28 March 2009, 2 p.m




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