Change and Decay In All Around I See

Letchworth, NY 2007

"Dream Home Series"

Late afternoon, after grabbing a couple of geocaches, this scene caught my eye. The home certainly qualifies for the "Dream Home Series" though it is quite different from the others.

"What A Mess!"

 "End of the Line."

This morning, Jean and I found this little creek at the bottom of a very deep gulley behind our house.  When I first saw this old, wrecked and abandoned shopping cart, I said, "Huh, end of the Line." What went through my mind at the time was sadness at the mess people make and leave behind. Then I had thoughts about how this scene was a symbol of one outcome of consumerism; covet, get, consume, use/wreck/yesterday/dissatisfied/no longer in style, dump it/throw it out, what's next?

A few hours later, when I reviewed the photos of the cart, I saw in this scene, a symbol of the outcome of so many lives today. Racing about, desperate for joy, love, acknowledgment ... going about from one place, experience, job, person, marriage, to the next -- shopping for life, hungry for something deep and lovely, but never quite getting it, or getting something that's close but nothing seems to satisfy.Yet the yearning for it, and the hope of getting it, drives one even more, convinced that this time I'll find it, this time I'll finally grab it, like the ass following a carrot, or as one person of old wrote, it's "a chasing after the wind" (Eccl. 2:11). End of the line, indeed.  Let that not be your life. There is a much, much better way.

"Dream Home Series"

 

"Dream Home Series"

Dream Home Series - Norway

"Dream Home Series"

LuccaTuscany, Italy

I know this is a dreaming. So?

Places I'd Like to Visit

Baatara Gorge Waterfall Tannourin, Lebanon

"I want that Kitty!"

This is the kitty we'd like to have!

Our cat, Jehu, is no more. We still miss him. 

We've had cats since 1977, and we'll have more, I'm sure.

Dream Home Series

Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mud_creek_photo/ a small home in Port Huron

Dream Home Series

I just like the look of these houses  - complicated, interesting, mysterious

Dream Home Interior Series

This is the beginning of a "Dream Home Interior" Series.  Figured that we might as well look at some fabulous Dream Home Rooms!

(I grabbed this photo from http://sweethomestyle.tumblr.com/page/3)

My Mom

Frouwkje Visser (Wolters)

November 30, 1925 - January 1, 2012

A person in Christ, In anticipation of the Resurrection
(Psalm 73:28)

 

 

Frouwkje Visser,
November 30, 1925 - January 1, 2012

On the Lord's Day, the first day of a new year, the Lord Jesus took mom into his care. Amazingly, unplanned by us, but through the Lord's precise planning and care, my dad, brother and family, Jean and I were drawn to be together with mom in her room at the Meadows. An hour after we all arrived, it became clear that the end was near. We stood around her in prayer, and by the time we said 'amen', she was gone. The end was a generous act of mercy for she had suffered much in the last while.

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