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2020-04-01 04:08
• With the world observing physical distancing due to the global reach of COVID-19, this has become an unusual Lent and a progressively stranger March. Some observers have suggested kee… Read More
2020-03-29 23:23
In the Hebrew bible, we find prophets, priests, and kings being anointed into lives of service. All four gospels tell about a woman anointing Jesus a few days before he died; I especially lo… Read More
2020-03-29 02:20
PROCLAIM!!! proclaim Read More
2020-03-29 01:17
Escape? Where else? Read More
2020-03-27 04:32
Cotton Belt, Rust Belt, Bible Belt, Corn Belt, Green Belt... Song Belt?Basic Corn Belt graphic from Wikimedia Commons Read More
2020-03-26 02:52
The Shift by Keion Henderson on AmazonGet this book and keep this book! The Shift will remind you God has your back, and despite your choices being limited at times, you still can help maxim… Read More
2020-03-25 02:00
"Make you a new heart and a new spirit." Ezekiel 18:31 Read More
2020-03-24 22:19
• Five Minute Friday–Tomorrow LinkupPoet Carl Sandburg insists there's nothing in the world but a sky full of tomorrows, an ocean of tomorrows. Another renowned wordsmith, William… Read More
2020-03-23 20:14
In 1769, Father Junipero Serra established San Diego de Alcalá, the first of many Franciscan missions in the Californias.{minorly Photoshopped} Wikimedia Commons photo Read More
2020-03-21 19:08
By the San Diego River Read More
2020-03-20 23:56
One month before Earth Day, United Nations World Water Day particularly celebrates fresh waterways. 2020 was going to be the fifth year in a row the Green Faith Team held a public WWD celebr… Read More
2020-03-20 21:03
2020-03-19 21:02
Glancing backwards through the pouring rain, hoping into a long-gone yesterday? Songwriter Jackson Browne reminds us, "You can dream, but you can never go back the way you came." Remember&md&hell…Read More
2020-03-19 20:04
Giving #LentenSnapshots2020 host April Fiet's website another shoutout. You can find her on Facebook, on twitter, too; April very recently started a monthly newsletter Read More
2020-03-18 01:22
Large? Small? It's all relative Read More
2020-03-17 19:43
In case you're viewing on a small screen or you've turned off images for fast browsing (does anyone still do that?), in no particular order since it's a circle, the words in my Found illustr… Read More
2020-03-16 23:42
• FMF linkup page :: lessLess is more! According to mid-last-century Bauhaus design sensibility. From Bauhaus to our house, many of us still prefer clean, spare, minimal styles. Some ha… Read More
2020-03-15 18:56
2020-03-15 05:28
Here we are in the church, months or years or decades down river of our baptism. Down river is a location of variable quality. As a river runs, it gathers almost everything along its course:… Read More
2020-03-15 02:50
Carry typically implies porting something around with you as you go:• The band Kansas: "Carry on, wayward son"• Carry out / takeaway food• Carry on bags• Stay Calm and Ca… Read More
2020-03-13 00:29
• Five Minute Friday Linkup Page—TableFor close to six months, half a year, most weeks I've started FMF to the extent of pasting the linkup into a new TextEdit page, to the extent… Read More
2020-03-12 21:22
Taking advantage of an opportunity to showcase some of my scripture-related art that otherwise gets onto this blog only sporadically. I probably have at least one design for each Sunday in a… Read More
2020-03-11 20:30
Melchior's song from Gian-Carlo Menotti's Ahmal and the Night Visitors:The child we seek holds the seas and the winds on his palm. The child we seek has the moon and the stars at his feet. B… Read More
2020-03-11 04:57
Luke 2125"There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. 28Now when these things begin to… Read More
2020-03-10 19:11
From Nederlandtsch Gedenckclanck (1626) the tune is Kömt nu met Zang, with Huub Oosterhuis' text translated by David Smith.What Is this Place?What is this place where we are meeting? On… Read More
2020-03-10 19:03
With "foolishness" the word for today, what other than the Apostle Paul's words about the cross? I'm expanding it to include Lesslie Newbegin's Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and West… Read More
2020-03-06 05:21
In Saxon English, the lord provided the loaf – the sustenance – for the people. Hebrew bible scholar Walter Brueggemann reminds us justice is important—food is essential. T… Read More
2020-03-05 21:37
Water is one of this blog's main topics—Water Is Life!Acts 8:36 "Look! Here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized!"In her article in the anthology she edited – Eco… Read More
2020-03-04 04:35
You may know about the 5 Languages of Love?Food isn't officially one of them, but food is my official Love Language! Even a symbolic few small crumbs will do. Please always invite me! Don't… Read More
2020-03-04 00:18
• As I've been doing for the past few years, here's my monthly summary;• With the end of another meteorological season, I'm linking to the previous two months:• This was Decem… Read More
2020-03-03 04:19
• Don Henley's book title reminds us Heaven Is Under Our Feet.• God's Word tells us heaven is under our feet:For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land,a land with flow… Read More
2020-03-01 13:00
"But everyday I say I'll try to make my heart be still"Phil Collins Read More
2020-02-29 20:50
Southern California is earthquake country; what better illustration of "shake" than a shakemap? Close enough that I felt the foreshock on July 4th and the main shock the next day, here's a p… Read More
2020-02-29 04:06
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2020-02-28 05:46
Giving #LentenSnapshots2020 host April Fiet's website another shoutout. You can find her on Facebook, on twitter, too; April very recently started a monthly newsletter. Some people have sugg… Read More
2020-02-27 06:24
April Fiet is hosting a daily word prompt for Lent! I'm on Facebook sabbatical, but you can find her there or connect on twitter as I've been doing during my FB fast; I predict you'll enjoy… Read More
2020-02-19 05:03
During Lent 2013 I wrote, "I fear more months, years, decades of aimless drifting."This week's Five Minute Friday Linkup: Experience• Started Friday, posted Tuesday.Loving myself on thi… Read More
2020-01-31 05:25
• Aside from the urban wilderness-city paradise lectionary blog I update every week (though Reign of Christ notes still await), I mostly blog pictures these days but expect to circle ba… Read More
2020-01-03 04:26
Around the feast of the Epiphany, some churches prayerfully provide a word for that year to anyone who requests one. Like the heavenly stars the magi who visited Jesus at epiphany followed… Read More
2019-12-28 21:47
• My December 2019 highlights feature Advent and Nativity.• The sled painted by Heather Bolinder of painting pain dot com (her website's waiting for action); over the years I've ad… Read More
2019-12-14 19:28
"The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad,the desert shall rejoice and blossom;like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly,and rejoice with joy and singing."Then the lame shall leap lik… Read More
2019-12-07 19:18
"The wolf shall live with the lamb,the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together,and a little child shall lead them.The cow and the bear shall graze… Read More
2019-12-05 04:41
• Porch Story host Kristin's month of November 2019• As meteorological autumn ends, I'm linking to Emily P Freeman's blog• desert spirit's fire! September 2019 highlights&bull&hell…Read More
2019-12-01 10:00
"They shall beat their swords into plowshares,and their spears into pruning hooks;nation shall not lift up sword against nation,neither shall they learn war any more."Isaiah 2:4 Read More
2019-11-02 23:52
Beauty, Truth, Life, and Love: Four Essentials for the Abundant Life by Brent Bill on AmazonThe reason for the title? Author Brent Bill tells us, "Beauty, truth, life, and love move us beyon… Read More
2019-11-01 20:45
• Porch Stories host Kristin reveals an extremely varied October; her book suggestions always interest me.• My stories this month are from round about town rather than actually fr… Read More
2019-10-02 04:17
• End of most months I link my story to Porch Stories host Kristin's. I know you'll enjoy reading about her September 2019.• Where am I? How am I? • In City of Angels. •… Read More
2019-09-23 16:39
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2019-09-08 03:28
Start with Your People: The Daily Decision that Changes Everything by Brian J Dixon on AmazonLike the composer author Brian Dixon described as a guy who'd done everything you're supposed to… Read More
2019-09-05 16:03
2019-08-29 03:40
• Porch Stories host Kristin writes about an August that sounds almost enviable.June• Day Camp in the San Fernando Valley easily was the high point of June, possibly of the summer… Read More
2019-07-19 23:12
Equal parts testimony, analysis, and exhortation, at first glance Terence Lester's soon to be released I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People is about the growing population… Read More
2019-07-04 03:09
• My end of the month summary blog for June 2019 covers less than a week, but those five days were good ones. Sometimes I sit on my actual porch, at other times it's a virtual veranda i… Read More
2019-06-14 00:17
World Water Day mostly emphasizes fresh waterways; World Oceans Day concentrates on waters that contain easily measurable saline. Since it's a day of celebration and collaboration leading to… Read More
2019-05-31 06:02
• March 2019 in current city• Observing April—double meaningMay 2019• Porch Story Time! I'm linking to Porch Story originator and host Kristin's Highlights for the month… Read More
2019-05-02 17:26
• April in southern California predictably brings warmer weather, longer days, hints of new life, and (very often) Holy Week and Easter Day. If you used to visit this blog on a regular… Read More
2019-05-02 03:25
2019-03-28 03:20
• Looking outward, contemplating inward from porches around town during the month of March. Porch Stories host Kristin wrote about Kristin wrote about her month of March, as well.•… Read More
2019-03-28 01:17
• On 22 March every single year (one month before Earth Day), United Nations World Water Day reminds us Water Is LIfe. Again we celebrated World Water Day 2019 by our local Los Angeles… Read More
2019-03-26 20:36
Silver Meadows Summer on AmazonTwo roads diverged and I had to choose one of them (Robert Frost), yet there's never a real pathway because we can't see far ahead, so we create our own road a… Read More
2019-02-28 04:10
• Meteorological winter is over for the northern hemisphere; Porch Stories host Kristin writes about her full... • Stories from the Porch in February• With spring on the way… Read More
2019-02-16 04:46
Around a year ago and counting backwards, I used to play Five Minute Friday almost every week, but quit when the going got tough. Oh, not the suggested one-word prompts and not my imaginatio… Read More
2019-02-06 17:55
24 Hours in Nowhere by Dusti Bowling on AmazonAs a lover of middle school novels, I enjoyed this adventure that's short in elapsed time, long in lives transformed—though the dense kids… Read More
2019-01-31 02:21
• Though I'm still in Southern California, I designed a cold winter header for my January summary blog because most of the USA and Canada are experiencing record cold temps and correspo… Read More
2019-01-02 22:12
• Porch Stories host Kristin chose Faithful as her word for 2019. Will I claim a guiding star word to follow during 2019? Along with the number of books for my good reads challenge, I d… Read More
2018-12-15 05:22
Sonoran Desert Wilderness near Tucson, ArizonaPorch Story host Kristin features guest Beth Johnson this week.My long ago previous city next door neighbor Sara blogged for the first time in… Read More
2018-11-30 04:10
• Porch Stories host Kristin features a guest with another inspiring adoption story.• It's the end of meteorological autumn; that means I'm linking up with Emily P. Freeman's quart… Read More
2018-11-20 03:37
• The Lord is with you!• And also with you.The church's year of grace will conclude nine days from now, and then we start another season of Advent anticipation. We count each day a… Read More
2018-10-31 21:45
October Days 2018• Porch Stories host Kristin had a wonderfully full month with her family. Unlike September, the tenth month gifted me with several interesting activities. LA Metro Con… Read More
2018-10-21 03:42
This week's linkup on the FMF site: Five Minute Friday: WhoFor a multitude of reasons, I've decided to tackle this daily writing project in any way possible, which so far has meant not writi… Read More
2018-10-17 23:14
There's the psalmist's "when, God, when?" and the reminiscing "when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed." In the past I used to insist to those who commented; these days I try to convince my… Read More
2018-10-17 23:05
Look out any window; look out any door. The best and probably the official video of Bruce and John Hornsby's song Look out any window; look out any door is a delight-filled panorama taken al… Read More
2018-10-17 22:37
Kristin's Porch Story for today is a wonderful one about her family's recent Caribbean cruise.Whether or not you're a musician, you may realize pauses and rests or are as important to the ov… Read More
2018-10-14 00:11
"Talk is cheap; you gotta walk that talk—show me!"Maybe because I've encountered countless individuals whose only topic of discourse is themselves, I don't talk about myself easily or… Read More
2018-10-13 03:33
Today I'm playing Five Minute Friday for the first time in half a year or longer... I didn't resonate with either prompt for day 12 from Crystal's lists, but praise meets my current needs. A… Read More
2018-10-12 02:25
Did I ever mention September and October historically have been the hottest months in Southern California? Yes, I have and they have, too. Just as recent mornings have offered a welcome swea… Read More
2018-10-11 00:14
Porch Stories host Kristin writes a long one about her daughter Rachel wanting to do, wanting to get almost everything that occurs to her because... "but I like it!". As Kristin explains, ou… Read More
2018-10-09 04:14
...who had a lasting impact on me.Boys on one side of the classroom, girls on the other side. Rose in front of me, SaraLee to the left. No one on my right—this was the first row. Behin… Read More
2018-10-07 02:34
Saturday. Do you know about sorrow? Do you know about loss? Cornel West reminds us, "We are people of hope! Why do we party on Friday night? Why do we go to church on Sunday?" Saturdays come… Read More
2018-10-06 02:42
Placeholder because image hosting is downIn most situations, whoever has the gold (the most valued medium of exchange) holds the key to the most desirable goods and services. Sometimes it's… Read More
2018-10-05 16:11
Geographical landed place remains part of almost everyone's homecoming dream. Being exiled from place is one of the worst nightmares. Next Monday, October 8th I'll write about returning home… Read More
2018-10-03 19:41
It's Wednesday, so it's blogging doubles with Write 31 Days and Kristin Hill Taylor's Porch Stories, where this week Kristin writes about The sweet spots of Washington, D.C. she and Greg dis… Read More
2018-10-03 02:27
Friend-ship... a ship, a vessel full of friends! A boatload of people who travel together. Friend can connote acquaintance, playmate, soulmate, romantic partner. In this social media era, fr… Read More
2018-10-02 03:25
What better topic than autumn to launch this year's 31 day writing challenge? During the months of falling leaves, the quality of light all day long makes my heart yearn for an unknown just… Read More
2018-10-02 02:19
Across the Street and Around the World: Following Jesus to the Nations in Your Neighborhood…and Beyond by Jeannie Marie on AmazonYou don't need to be either Christian or considering l… Read More
2018-09-27 03:22
IntroLast Saturday was the autumnal equinox; in southern California, September and October tend to be our hottest months, though today has been the third overcast one in a row instead of ful… Read More
2018-09-25 22:00
God's holy mountainis the joy of all the earth.Psalm 48:1-2 Read More
2018-09-21 04:33
Porch Stories host Kristin's younger daughter Rachel is three years old! Happy Birthday, Rachel!IntroSeptember and October typically are our hottest months in southern California. Two more d… Read More
2018-09-18 16:21
The heavens declarethe glory of God,and the firmamentsheweth God's handiwork.Psalm 19:1 Read More
2018-09-15 23:41
You have made thema little lower than Godand crowned humanitywith glory and honor.Psalm 8:5Original B&W faces art by Prawny via RGB Stock; recolored by me in my suntreeriver design ident… Read More
2018-09-11 20:42
Then God said,"Let the earth bring forth grass,and the fruit tree yield fruit,"and it was so. Genesis 1:11 Read More
2018-09-04 17:00
On Amazon—It's Momplicated: Hope and Healing for Imperfect Daughters of Imperfect Mothers by Debbie Alsdorf and Joan Edwards KayThis is a most amazing book! Co-authors Debbie and Joan… Read More
2018-08-30 02:34
• Time to summarize another meteorological season and review the month almost past! I've been neglecting writing a weekly Porch Story and haven't blogged anything else. Most often I pic… Read More
2018-08-02 03:08
• Porch Stories host Kristin takes a retrospective glance at July; I'll do the same.About Time• Trains run on a preplanned, often published schedule, sometimes on time, sometimes n… Read More
2018-07-27 17:06
July 28th every year • Saturday 28 July this yearThis is a worship bulletin cover collage I designed in City of History for our weeknight liturgical celebration of The Fifth Evangelist… Read More
2018-07-25 23:55
Happy 242nd, USA!Be free & brave! Welcome the stranger.Live justice.Rock righteousness Read More
2018-07-25 23:55
Sixteen Years• It's Wednesday—Porch Story Day! Host Kristin Hill Taylor's about Adventuring Together; I'm writing about my 16 year blogoversary that happened on the middle day of… Read More
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