Other Reflections
November 27, 2024 - If awe is the disappearance of self, then gratitude might include recognition of others. For some, it has been their gif...
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Small Pupils
November 26, 2024 - "You have the smallest pupils of anyone I know," said my eye doctor yesterday. I told him that he says that every year....
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No Fear
November 25, 2024 - We have several azaleas still blooming. Yes, it's the variety that blooms so often and yes, we live in the South. But I...
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Making Love Real
November 24, 2024 - Today is Reign of Christ Sunday. I've been wondering when Christ's reign will be made real. It's not about Jesus being i...
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Awe Is Everywhere
November 23, 2024 - I found awe in several places. As I sat in the waiting room for my PET scan, an older couple sat across from me. She was...
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Awe Full
November 22, 2024 - A change of pace with and a black and white image. Another moment of awe in my backyard with the Sango Maple tree and a...
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I Can't Get Out of My Yard Without Awe
November 21, 2024 - Yesterday, I referenced a study about the effect of awe as one walks, observing nature, good deeds, the interactions of...
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A Glimpse of Awe, Maybe
November 20, 2024 - I learned about "Awe" Walks this week. Scientists encouraged a group of people, 75 and over, to take weekly walks and no...
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A Mountain Sunset
November 19, 2024 - There are some things nice about living in Tennessee. We have met wonderful people. Lots of BBQ but not enough catfish f...
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It's Late
November 18, 2024 - Summer is clearly over, and autumn is drawing to a close as well. The forecast for the coming week includes frost. Many...
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Provoked
November 17, 2024 - One possibility for the preacher today is the epistle lesson which includes Hebrews 10:23-25, "Let us hold fast to the c...
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Surprised Myself
November 15, 2024 - Years ago, a friend asked when I just had shoeboxes of photographic prints and Kodak Carousel trays filled with slides,...
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I wasn't Bored
November 14, 2024 - My kidnapped friend might have been bored at me taking my time, photographing autumn scenes, at the Missouri Botanical G...
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Kidnap a Friend
November 13, 2024 - One fall day when I lived in Springfield, I called a friend who lived near St. Louis and said, "I'll be there in about 9...
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Today Used To Be
November 12, 2024 - Today used to be, at least to my observations, the beginning of the cold weather. The first frost would not be too far a...
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Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month
November 11, 2024 - November 11, Veterans Day, was originally Armistice Day, observed in Europe and the US to mark the end of World War 1, t...
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The Little Girls Cried
November 10, 2024 - Will preachers use the gospel lesson this morning from the Common Lectionary? Passages about money often show up in the...
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Crappy Weather
November 09, 2024 - Maybe one of the reasons the 2005 photo trip was so bad was the crappy weather. It's a precise photographic term; the op...
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Just Wait
November 08, 2024 - I don't know if I have shared this photo before. It's the lighthouse at Yaquina Bay, Oregon from May 2005. It was a mise...
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Afterwards
November 07, 2024 - I don't have any wisdom for these days. I have had my faith questioned by others. Nothing new. I tried to be a peacemake...
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Could Be
November 05, 2024 - I'm voting today. I understand that more than 80 million people have already voted. The line should be a little shorter.
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Loving Neighbors
November 03, 2024 - I took this photo several years ago at the Common Ground Faire in Maine. What drew my eye and why I lifted my camera and...
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Slow Time
November 02, 2024 - It's the last day of daylight savings time for 2024. When I was growing up as a kid in Indiana, I often heard the coming...
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All Saints Day
November 01, 2024 - We are surrounded by such a cloud of witnesses, writes the author of the Letter to the Hebrews. I remember so many dear...
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