I think it is difficult enough to photograph what you see...

But I read a challenge recently to photograph what you feel. I recognize when I am drawn to an image, more by emotion than sight. But to make those images is a growing desire of mine. How can I see more deeply? And how can that be communicated visually?

Today is the Fourth Sunday in Lent, and the gospel lesson is a favorite of mine that tells well the story of the healing of the blind man. Scene after scene builds throughout the account. An excerpt of Barbara Brown Taylor's most recent book, Learning to Walk in the Dark, published in the April 2, 2014 edition of the Christian Century, relates the experience of Jacques Lusseyran, who although blind experienced light within. He wrote: "The source of light is not in the outer world. We believe that it is only because of a common delusion. The light dwells where life also dwells: within ourselves." There is seeing that happens without eyes. Sometimes you can even tell it in a photograph.