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DSC_0397: I took this picture at the Riverfront park in downtown Moncton today at 8:15 AM on my way to work.
Its been an unusually mild winter so far with very little snow - especially compared to last year when it was near record breaking for accumulation here -- now the grass is almost bare.
The sunrises and sunsets for the past week or two have been really colourful on most days, and today was such a day.
I got a good look at the sun rising on my drive into work today and just so happened to have my camera and new tripod with me - for a video shoot I was doing at lunch time for an upcoming Krusty video.
I decided to nip over to the river and take this shot of the sun coming up behind the Celtic cross.
Since Valentine's Day is coming soon and Sue's been away this week, I decided to call this one "Love and Devotion". Our wedding had a Celtic theme; even though neither of us are of Scottish or Irish background really.
Absolutely no post processing at all on this shot.
Holy Week in La Antigua Guatemala
Galería Fundación Ancalmo
San Salvador, El Salvador
March 13 - April 10, 2015
Semana Santa en La Antigua Guatemala
Galería Fundación Ancalmo
San Salvador, El Salvador
13 marzo - 10 abril, 2015
This is a two week assignment. The goal is to create a beautiful “still life” image that stands alone outside of this assignment. Hopefully, at the end of this assignment, we will all print our images and hang them on the wall! I chose this topic because I have never tried a still life, and now it is time. It’s time for everyone to create a work of art! Be creative and good luck!
WIT: Camera flash set to 1/16 or 1/32. fast shutter speed and small aperture to blacken out everything else. Amazing to me because this is with all of the lights in the room on. I held a flash over my wifes hands while triggering the camera with an IR remote.
This Book of Hours was made ca. 1310-20, likely in Ghent. It was badly rebound with a sixteenth-century Flemish binding by Léon Gruel in Paris at the end of the nineteenth or early twentieth century, and the initials of Gruel and Engelmann are printed on the bookplate on the front pastedown. The manuscript lacks its calendar, and the text is incomplete and misbound. In the fourteenth century a prayer for Communion, written in French, was added at the end of the book. Initials in gold, blue and pink mark the divisions of the text. The manuscript is richly illuminated with drolleries; painted on the borders of each folio, they would have amused the reader with their playful animals, hybrids, and human figures.
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New arrivals. I'm finally getting around to photographing all the dolls that arrived while I was in the middle of my move.
Man Mo Temple, HK
"Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end."
-- Dr. Thomas Dooley
Semana Santa en La Antigua Guatemala
Galería Fundación Ancalmo
San Salvador, El Salvador
13 marzo - 10 abril, 2015
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/on-quieting-your-heart-before-go...
Pondering the words of God and praying over the words of God at the same time as eating and drinking the actual words of God—this is the first step to being at peace before God. If you can be truly at peace before God, then the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit will be with you.
All spiritual life is achieved by relying on being quiet before God. In praying you must be quiet before God before you can be moved by the Holy Spirit. By being quiet before God when you eat and drink God’s words you can be enlightened and illuminated and be able to achieve truly understanding God’s words. In your usual meditation and fellowship, and when you are drawing close to God with your heart, only when you are quiet before God can you have genuine closeness to God, genuine understanding of God’s love and God’s work, and true thoughtfulness toward God’s intentions. The more you are usually able to be quiet before God the more you can be illuminated, and the more you are able to understand your own corrupt disposition, what you lack, what you should enter, what function you should serve, and where you have defects. All these are achieved by relying on being quiet before God. If you truly reach some depth in being quiet before God, you can touch some mysteries in the spirit, touch on what God at present wants to do on you, touch on deeper understanding of God’s words, and touch on the essence of God’s words, on the substance of God’s words, on the being of God’s words, and you can see the path of practice more thoroughly and more accurately. If you cannot be quiet in your spirit to a certain depth, you will just be somewhat moved by the Holy Spirit, inside you will feel strength, and some enjoyment and peace, but you will not touch anything deeper. I have said before, if one does not use all their strength, it will be difficult for them to hear My voice or see My face. This refers to achieving depth in being quiet before God, not to external effort. A person who can truly be quiet before God is able to free themselves from all worldly ties and can achieve being occupied by God. All people who are unable to be quiet before God are assuredly dissolute and unrestrained. All who are able to be quiet before God are people who are pious before God, people who yearn for God. It is only people who are quiet before God who pay attention to life, pay attention to fellowship in spirit, who thirst for God’s words, and who pursue the truth. All those who pay no attention to being quiet before God, who do not practice being quiet before God are vain people who are completely attached to the world, who are without life; even if they say they believe in God they are just paying lip-service. Those God ultimately perfects and completes are people who can be quiet before God. Therefore, people who are quiet before God are people graced with great blessings. People who during the day take little time to eat and drink God’s words, who are completely preoccupied with external affairs, and do not pay attention to life entry are all hypocrites with no prospect of developing in the future. It is those who can be quiet before God and genuinely commune with God who are God’s people.
from "On Quieting Your Heart Before God"