Wow, have I been wanting to write here! But the time never seemed to be right. There have been so many distractions in my life keeping me from doing the reading and writing I would just love to do. Yet, I have been photographing. And that's good.
The photography has been good relief from all the heavy stuff that has been happening for me lately. The pictures here were taken at our church picnic a week ago. I've come to look on photography as a form of worship. So glad I've been able to focus a bit on that in the midst of the troubles and uncertainties I presently live with!
My mother is still in hospital, so we are still uncertain as to when we can take a break away or whether we'll be able to get away at all. Last Tuesday was especially difficult. While my husband and I visited her she had a heart attack - mild, but I could see we almost lost her. Things turned out ok though. She recovered and today she is perky, crocheting in her bed and wanting very much to go home.
That same Tuesday two other close friends were admitted to the same hospital. Thank goodness, though. One was sent home yesterday. And the other one is doing delightfully better.
On top of all these happenings, I went to the Willow Creek Leadership Summit on Thursday and Friday. Such a wonderful event! I learned so much! Though I must say it was an awful lot to take in. One of the speakers said it was "like drinking from a fire hydrant." That's one reason I played hookey Thursday afternoon. Another reason I skipped out was that I was fed so much good stuff Thursday morning that I needed to go home and digest it and journal about it.
The topics I found so useful were on team building and casting vision. I so need to try harder passing along the passion I have for Living Room to the people I'd like to work with. Because yes, I am trying to build a team to help me with the broader work of Living Room - the work outside my own group that meets at my church. In September Living Room will have its fifth anniversary and I have for a long time very much needed a team, built of people from my church, to help me carry the vision forward in a stronger way.
But right now it's summertime. And I need to take some time to relax and read. Time to get my mind away from Living Room. Time for myself.
Today I pray to God that I will be able to discipline myself to quieten myself and spend some time reading and focusing on Him.
2 comments:
Your pictures are beautiful. It is so special when you can captivate what such beauty YOU SEE when you watch those children. We see the same things visually, just fleeting, as every second seems to burst forth into the next one. But you manage to capture that most important beautiful milisecond on a photograph. What an amazing gift.
Jane: Thank you so very much - for liking my photographs and for pointing out something I hadn't looked at just that way before. You said, "We see the same things visually, just fleeting, as every second seems to burst forth into the next one."
Now I understand why I enjoy watching children so intently. I'm picking out those meaningful milliseconds - never knowing when they're going to break forth. Such a joy it is to do that and to have a camera that's able to capture them!
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