Paintings of Wyoming - Day 1, Saturday

Lake McConaughy - Kingsley Dam

Colorful motel in Broadwater, NE

Driving to Alliance, NE

Carhenge - Alliance, NE

A new addition

Rest Stop - the bare necessities

Redwood Water Tower - Lusk, WY

Truck Stop - Orin, WY

Clouds...leading us onward

Evening walk - Douglas, WY

Sunset - Douglas, WY

Not nearly as good as the Friday evening before...

This Side of the Clouds

This side of the clouds, I sit and gaze

Not far off on the other, You gaze back...

Painting...

A wonderous sight to behold, the sky

Ever-changing...ever-beautiful

Ever-perfect...

The light, the wind, the rain

all a brush...

a canvas...

How fortunate are we

to be

this side of the clouds.

My Life is But a Weaving...

My life is but a weaving

between my Lord and me...

I cannot choose the colors

He worketh steadily...

Oft times he weaveth sorrow
and I in foolish pride...

forget He sees the upper

but I the underside...

Not till the loom is silent
and the shuttles cease to fly...

shall God unroll the canvas
and explain the reason why...

The dark threads are as needed

in the Weaver's skillful hand...

as threads of gold and silver

in the pattern life has planned.

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Who can say where the road goes...

I don't believe we ever let anything go...that would be like the river jumping out from its banks and deciding to run up stream. Instead, we continue downstream...taking small bits off of each bank with us... The limbs of fallen trees, debris from storms...lost fishing poles...an old boot...a lone boatman drifting downstream...everything. We dare not let it go...for it defines us...it feeds us...

Together, they all make us an even stronger river.

Nebraska has cool trees too...

Masterpiece

I was privileged this week to lay witness to what makes Nebraska weather so beautiful...

There indeed, is beauty in everything...

Growing Pains

With a blink of an eye, two years pass...

Children grow bigger...

Adults grow older...

But thanks be to God, the memories grow fonder...