wednesday evening K group at beautiful savior

my personal musings as "facilitator" of the wednesday evening K-group studying JAMES at the wels lutheran beautiful savior church in summerville...

after last evening, i found myself moved thinking again about how much GOD loves us, how much He gave up for us...

abraham being willing to sacrifice isaac as a parallel or figurative image of GOD the father being willing to sacrifice His one and only son, JESUS for us...

and Jesus being willing to sacrifice His full power and glory to live on earth as a human being for us...

these two thoughts pierce my heart, but make me smile simultaneously...

to GOD be the glory...

too busy

have been busy living recently without much time for online escapades but i am hoping to post more fossil photographs soon...

john lennon's "imagine"

yesterday, i was listening to the radio and heard john lennon's lovely melody, imagine however... in listening to the lyrics more closely, i heard a disturbing idea... imagine all the people everywhere living with exactly the same beliefs, exactly the same idea that this is all there is, living exactly like one another, in no country, with no "god", with nothing worth living for... and it occurred to me, how extraordinarily boring this world that we are imagining would be...

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

valentine's day hit by jenimaster

please be strongly forewarned, jenimaster uses some down-right foul language in her nevertheless witty post against hallmark's day

"the gates", wrap art in central park, nyc

the gates 


photograph by: barbara farrar evans, 02/13/05

the "gates" by cristo and jean-claude in nyc

this weekend, i flew to nyc to visit my mother and to see my daughter off on mid-term break from her college in indiana, earlham... i got lucky... staying off central park west...

saw the opening day of "the gates" an environmental art project of cristo and jean-claude; 16 ft tall gates with saffron colored nylon, pleated banners unfurled saturday morning; all 7,500 gates placed along pathways throughout central park, adding walkways of blossoming color behind and before bare black tree limbs...

quite a sight; very entertaining...

and yes, i will have photographs...

intelligent design

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rekindle your marriage

a blog on rebuilding marriage after infidelity

best fish

fishing 7 am to 1 pm yesterday in the bay off the intercostal waterway between the isle of palms and what? mount pleasant, so. carolina watched the sunrise over the atlantic ocean in the eastern sky, a sky so blue it hurt... a cold morning at probably 37 or 42 degrees, somewhere in that range... and the wind as the boat charged to our destination, bitter but wonderful as well... bubbles between the waves; i have no idea...

we motor in, close to the tall marsh grass, and anchor with the pole... that long black stiff snake of a pole sunk into the bottom... the bottom... i can see the bottom which is about 2 and a half to 3 and a half feet below me... there are shell beds which slowly, surprisingly rise above the waterline as the tide goes out imperceptibly over the course of fishing...

i cast to moving blue water which is a school of fish below the surface... i miss more than i hit the right spots... and we get no bites of any sort really...

soon, even i can see the blue water moving and can identify that there are fish there... juvenile red drum swimming together in schools of 100 at times, per my guide...

a dolphin comes in on us... and "runs", fin up, into the schools of fish... he slaps the water, churns it up, brings mud from the bottom (as do the fish...) the young dolphin runs the fish to the grass and eats them... then goes off, coming a few more times in different places, but doing the same to the water and the drum...

later, my guide swithes to live bait, minnows... and i am casting and giving slack... and i turn to say something... and oh, a thud... and the fish runs from me, and i hook him...

it takes me a good 5 minutes, i think, to give him drag, reel him in, let him run a bit, reel him in again, and on and on... until he shows himself out in the water... he is a big juvenile drum...

when i catch him... and he is on the boat... he is thick in the head, and a good 27 inches long, i think... but he definitely weighs 10.5 pounds... and he is the best fish i have ever caught...

we let him go... he looks in shock for a moment, then flips his tail and swims away...

5 spots on one side, 4 on the other... a beautiful creature... free...

a wondrous list of things loved

thanks for this listing of loved things...

"train wreck"?

tip of the hat to marlowe's shade regarding an article in the boston globe claiming the iraqi election was a "train wreck"... and nothing to be proud of...

optimism, hope, freedom

president "w"'s state of the union address was one of a confident commander-in-chief and leader of the free world as i used to hear when i was very young...

president "w" told americans and the world that the u.s.a. is committed to promoting human freedom at home and throughout the world in order to defeat terrorism and secure our safety...

watching the iraqi women's leader embrace the mother of a soldier k.i.a. in iraq was moving... even the brief moment during which a bracelet became entangled in the other's clothing was touching as each tried to assist the other...

God bless America...