Satiated

“I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.”  ~Pete Hamill I have a tendency to forget that the world is beautiful. Caught up in the mess of relationships and injustice, I relentlessly ask God…

How Am I Known?

“You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.” [Matthew 7:16-20]

A Greater Freedom

Acts 13:39… Through Jesus everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.

College Visits and Flowers

Luke 12:27-28 “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. “But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will…

Thick Clouds and Heavy Mists

While in Wyoming, my dad and I got to hike along many beautiful trails, but our favorite hike was the assent to Medicine Bow Peak, the highest peak in the Snowy Range. I had climbed this peak six years ago, and so I was excited to be able to experience the sights at an older…

New Life From the Past

“Remember not the former things,     nor consider the things of old.  Behold, I am doing a new thing;     now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness     and rivers in the desert.” -Isaiah 43:18-19 This Labor Day weekend Dad and I were given the opportunity to go…

In Summer

“Your love is like a waterfall, waterfall Running wild and free You hear my heart when I call, when I call Deep calls, to deep Your love is like a waterfall, waterfall Raining down on me” –Waterfall by Chris Tomlin

Snow Day

It all started well, I sat down at the kitchen table with my English homework, prepared to have a productive snow day. Being the second one in a row this week, I had already had plenty of time to laze around in my pajamas and do nothing. However this motivation wore off much faster than I…

Man, What a Catch!

Back in the warmer days of November, on one of those miraculously sunny afternoons, my family and I took a hike at a local nature park. I brought my camera, of course, but was planning on using it mostly to photograph my family members, as I was trying to prepare for a senior picture shoot someone…