Still [1Word5Voices]

If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen a thousand. You know, the pictures of our friends and family members sitting beside a pool or a lake or an ocean, feet stretched toward the horizon, with some “look where I am and you’re not” caption. I have been known to playfully tease folks when such pictures come […]

Place…again [1Word5Voices]

So today’s word, “place” has already appeared in our Lenten photo-a-day/blog-a-day challenge. (here’s my previous place post) The repetition led one of my fellow bloggers (links at the bottom), to promptly decide today was a free day. No need to blog again on a word we already covered. But I’ve been thinking about that. If […]

Wilderness [1Word5Voices]

The word I most associate with the season of Lent is wilderness. The Hebrews wandering in the wilderness… Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness… Both wilderness experiences are intense times of trial and hardship. I imagine the wilderness places in these passages and the pictures painted are stark. Wilderness is untamed, uninhabitable, unfriendly, unlikely to be a […]