Find the Beauty All Around

worth several thousand words

Happy Friday, Blue Roomies!

It’s been a week… my mate and my youngest are away visiting family, my colleague is on a well-deserved vacation, the transition from school year to summer always brings some chaos, and as I write this on Thursday, we’re monitoring our middle-aged boy cat to see if he needs emergency vet care. (Pray and hope for pees and poops, please.)

And yet, Paula D’Arcy’s words remain top of mind, that God comes to us disguised as our lives. All I need to do is look at the last few photos on my phone to see that beauty is all around, even with everything going on. A sampling:

It’s Pride!

A member of the church sent this snap along. You are welcome at this table… and God is crazy about you. Don’t let anyone tell you different:

A kid and a partner at the festival:

My eldest home from college is making the most of the few weeks before the summer job starts. Yowza:

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Life as a Work of Art

More scrumptious artwork from the eldest:

A portrait of me at the pulpit, drawn by the sweetest 6 year old attending church with her grandparents:

And June 10 would have been Maurice Sendak’s 96th birthday:

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The Bounty of the Earth

Stuff is growing in my garden! I’m in awe.

Your Turn

Try it yourself. Do a little visio divina on your camera roll. What graces do you see?

Steady on.

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What I’m Up To

I’m preaching this Sunday 6/16 at 10:15 EDT at Trinity Presbyterian, Herndon, in person or via livestream.

Any Ohioans out there? I’ll be speaking at the Lakeside Chautauqua the week of July 14, doing a little hopemongering.

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Link Love

My friend Keith Snyder has a Kickstarter brewing for what looks to be a delightful children’s picture book about bicycles. Give his video a look. I remember when those twin boys in the video were born!