This past Friday and Saturday our youth group participated in Worldvision’s 30 Hour Famine. The event calls people to forego food for 30 hours, for which they raise funds to give toward worldwide hunger relief 1. During these 30 hours participants learn about the impact of hunger and poverty, do a service project, and through…
Category: Thoughts
Practice
Most of the skills which I practice are on my computer, and pictures of me sitting at my computer don’t seem that interesting to me. So today I partially share the result from my hours of practice with Apple’s Motion. This is a still from a title sequence I created as part of Central’s 30…
Hear
Of all the musical instruments we use in worship, the one which I personally enjoy the least is the pipe organ. That’s not to say I don’t appreciate the amazing nature of the instrument. A proper pipe organ, after all, is calibrated to resonate specifically with the structure in which it is housed. When a…
Blessing
I have to admit, this might be a strange image for “blessing” to anyone who has no history with the objects in frame. Why a choose a weathered chair and table to image this theme? It’s because these objects are from my childhood home. My parents are downsizing and have no need of this table,…
Silence
Of the topics covered thus far on this Lenten journey, “silence” has given me the most pause. How does one cover silence in an image? As I pondered, however, I realized something. Silence isn’t the absence of sound, it’s actually the presence of listening. A minimizing of sound is quiet, not silence. The two are…
Most Thankful
I’ve been fighting a cold for the better part of a week, and actually feel quite miserable, but I managed to have an excellent birthday weekend. First, some friends from Massachusetts arrived on Friday and stayed until they continued a journey South this morning. They are some of our best family friends in the world,…
