So gratitude snuck up on me the last few days. It started sneaking up when I was wrestling with my sermon for Sunday around the story of the Israelites crossing over from their wanderings in the desert into the Promised Land (Joshua 3 & 4). I did not expect earlier in the week to come to a message centered on gratitude but that’s how it emerged from a walk on Thursday morning. That walk began by seeing an older couple returning to their car early that morning as they were clearly the first ones out. It is a couple I have seen many times and the woman is in a wheelchair and her husband pushes the wheelchair around the paved loop pretty much regardless of the weather. I wrote about them three years ago
Just on a side note Ed; we had to put my mom and dad in long-term memory care a couple of weeks ago. If you’re a prayer warrior please pray for peace for them and for my brother and the rest of the family.
One of the best things about your post are the pictures that you take. I use to be a photographer long ago. It started with a 110 foldable camera 35mm. Later on I I purchased a Minolta X570 with a 35-210 zoom lens and I took that on all my hikes. That was way before the computer cameras of today.
I especially love pictures of water and waterfalls in the outdoors. I can lay by waterfall on a big rock of limestone or granite and sleep such a peaceful and tranquil moment. Thank you Ed for your pictures and your way with words.
I remember snoozing on a backpacking trip in Colorado when I was in college right next to a waterfall feeding into a beautiful mountain lake. I was so tired after the hiking that a rock was my pillow and it felt wonderful. :-)
Gratitude is something I have always tried to practice, sometimes not as diligently as others. Your photography brings me peace. My house is surrounded by trees and houses, so my glimpses of sunsets and sunrises are framed by my surroundings, not such majestic views as yours. But I am grateful for shade, and the light as it is reflected through those trees.
I am not grateful for not being able to take walks and appreciate nature in person and I'm tired of trying to find the positive in my closed off world. That's a sentence that reveals my state of mind lately. I'm really mad at my body. I hate my body. I'd love to submerge it in a gentle waterfall.
I will hold gratitude for you friend in this time when it is hard to find that for yourself. I also hold lament for all you are facing. Much love to you.
Just on a side note Ed; we had to put my mom and dad in long-term memory care a couple of weeks ago. If you’re a prayer warrior please pray for peace for them and for my brother and the rest of the family.
Thank you
I will be praying for them and for you all. That is such a hard change to face in life. Prayers ascend.
Ed,
One of the best things about your post are the pictures that you take. I use to be a photographer long ago. It started with a 110 foldable camera 35mm. Later on I I purchased a Minolta X570 with a 35-210 zoom lens and I took that on all my hikes. That was way before the computer cameras of today.
I especially love pictures of water and waterfalls in the outdoors. I can lay by waterfall on a big rock of limestone or granite and sleep such a peaceful and tranquil moment. Thank you Ed for your pictures and your way with words.
I remember snoozing on a backpacking trip in Colorado when I was in college right next to a waterfall feeding into a beautiful mountain lake. I was so tired after the hiking that a rock was my pillow and it felt wonderful. :-)
Your gratitude is now ours! Thank you.
Gratitude is something I have always tried to practice, sometimes not as diligently as others. Your photography brings me peace. My house is surrounded by trees and houses, so my glimpses of sunsets and sunrises are framed by my surroundings, not such majestic views as yours. But I am grateful for shade, and the light as it is reflected through those trees.
Thanks for sharing.
Wow. Thank you for sharing. Like you, my house is surrounded by trees and houses too. Hence why I feel I have to get to open spaces almost daily.
I am not grateful for not being able to take walks and appreciate nature in person and I'm tired of trying to find the positive in my closed off world. That's a sentence that reveals my state of mind lately. I'm really mad at my body. I hate my body. I'd love to submerge it in a gentle waterfall.
I will hold gratitude for you friend in this time when it is hard to find that for yourself. I also hold lament for all you are facing. Much love to you.