Colorado Hike

On a recent hike in Colorado, the friends in our group enjoyed very different aspects of the scenery. Some of us moved quickly. Wanting to take in the broadest possible vista, we climbed as high as we could. Kim, an artist and teacher, focused on the intricacies that survived our bootprints. Farah, a musician sensitive to life's journey, had a lengthy conversation that turned a stranger into a friend.
God's beauty could be seen in the great expanse, in the tiny details, and in human faces. For each of us the experience became richer when we combined our perspectives. Here are some samples. Enjoy the view!
Joni and Bob

A Little Color

"Don't forget a little color!" That was the last thing my mom would say as I headed out to school or church or on a date or anywhere in public, for that matter. A little red or pink on the lips kept you from looking dead. At least that is the take we had on it in west Texas. You may have been up all night typing a term paper or tending a sick child, but a little color made the next dawn bright for those who had to look at your sorry old self.

As I look out my window, the colors of winter are bleak. Muddy browns. Washed out grays. The only bright spot is the beer can someone threw out their car window. So I give you a present of color. Compliments of God, the master mixer of paints. Enjoy! Joni

Astronomy Picture of the Day

We are hoping that you have your homepage set right here on the LifeSpace Forum, but every now and then make sure you take a look at NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" (http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html). It is updated every night, so one of the benefits of staying up late is getting to preview the next day's picture! They are usually pictures of galaxies or distant planets, but today's is a gorgeous "roll cloud" over Missouri.


This might be a good image to have in front of you when reading Ezekiel 1 !!

West Texas Sunrise

A West Texas sunrise to soothe your soul. The purple streak along the bottom was not visible to my naked eye. Such a surprise when I looked at the printed photograph. Reminded me of the phenomenal mystery of God. He is the full expanse of reality. I see only a partial glimpse. I must embrace the mystery of His presence while, at the same time, acknowledging His that He shared my very humanness in flesh and blood.

Frederick Buechner quoted Gerard Manley Hopkins:
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods
With warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Buechner writes, "It is our business, as we journey, to keep our hearts open to that, to the bright-winged presence of the Holy Ghost within us and the Kingdom of God among us."

Look for the purple light as you go about your life's moments. The bright-winged presence of the holy God among us.
Joni