Biblical Limericks: The Partridge and the Capitalist

The partridge is a bird who will raid
bird nests to hatch eggs it has not laid-
and that’s just like the jerk
who gets rich without work;
Oh Lord, let them all as fools be paid.

Jeremiah 17:11

Broken Glass Abstract

My wife was cleaning the glass shelf from the bottom of the refrigerator when it broke unexpectedly - shattered into more than a thousand pieces. We cleaned up the mess and I saved the shards for photographs like this.

Biblical Limericks: The Cave of Adullam

David, the outlaw, was on the lam,
hiding in the Cave of Adullam,
and joining David there -
men with debts and despair,
four hundred men in that cave did cram.

1 Samuel 22: 1 - 2

When God Closes a Door and Other Odds and Ends

*Sometimes when God closes a door - he stands there grumbling about the kids trying to heat the whole outdoors...


*I've decided to adopt Jeremiah 17:5a as my life verse: "trust no one."

*In a recent lesson on Loneliness among Leaders -based on the life of David - we were told that we each need someone in our lives who can be  1)an Abiathar - who can come work alongside us 2) a  Jonathan - who can be our intimate and trusted friend 3) a Nathan - who can keep us accountable and honest and 4) a Solomon - to whom we can pass on a legacy.

Great, I think, but all I've got are a bunch of Shimeis - cursing and throwing stones.

Evening and Nighttime Photography in South Dakota

I am currently in Keystone, South Dakota. I'm here for meetings. This is a great place - but ... meetings.... blah.

We drove up (my wife and I) with some good friends of ours. It's surprising how riding with good people can make a 10 hour drive seem so much shorter. The first photo is of the South Dakota sun setting through storm clouds. My friend, John, didn't want to stop (again) so I could get out and take pictures (again), so I stuck my head out of the moving van to take this one.

The second photo below is of the Ponderosa Pine trees growing on the granite rocks behind our hotel. I went out for a walk around the grounds after we got here late Monday night, set up my tripod and took a few photos.