Pictures, Misc.

This past week-end it was my delight and privilege to lead a women's Lenten retreat in Dearborn MI, put together by the pastors of (left to right, me in black) Baptist, Lutheran, and Episcopal congregations for their members.  They all did such a beautiful job of pulling everything together and leading us in worship; I'm hoping the retreat was worthwhile for the

women who showed up. 

Looking at some other old photos I've recently put on CDs.  Josh graduated from Chicago in March of 2007 and he and I made a little celebratory trip to the Virginia shore, replaying a family vacation of many, many years previous.  I had always hoped that we would all return together and, as I look at this photo, I think of that quote that periodically makes the rounds: The problem is, you always think that you have time.  Thank God we made time for this ~ even if it was cold and windy all week, we spent a wonderful week together riding bikes through the wildlife refuge and walking the beach and eating seafood and

talking things over.

 

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Life mostly unbloggable these days.  Guess there will be photos instead. 

Maundy Thursday 2007

Josh and I were away on a trip together, celebrating his college graduation.  In the early morning he slept in, something I almost never do when I'm at the beach:


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I started my Maundy Thursday by driving across the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge toward sunrise on the beach at Assateague, with Bach echoing in the car and birds beginning to awaken on the darkened marsh.

As the sun bubbled over the Atlantic, flocks of willet and sanderlings sparkled out along the edge of the foam, and the just-past-full moon hung above the inlet.

My drive back was marked by scores of shorebirds wheeling over the marsh, a posse of Sika deer stopping to stare, and a loon floating serenely in the early morning sunshine.

An awesome day on the calendar beginning with such fragile beauty on the coast.