I find opportunities to share meaningful thoughts to be few and far between, yet I much enjoy diving deeper than conversations typically delve. This Pondering Pictures blog will be a place to put my pondering into writing. Photographs will serve as inspirations, as starting points. It is my intention to begin a journey, an adventure in writing. I do not know where it will take me. Perhaps I shall visit deep places, or perhaps gentle slopes. I invite you to join my pondering journey.
This first picture brings back memories of the summer I graduated high school and of Julie Muhilly, my best friend’s mom. I lovingly called her “crazy Julie.” My friend was often embarrassed, but I always enjoyed being around her mom. One of my fun memories of her was the week I spent with her at Redwood Family Camp. She had us load up her car with all sizes of river rocks to paint. I thought she was joking at first. Nope. Here is the evidence. I noticed these two paintings this morning while taking photos for a Facebook challenge.
These rocks remind me that it’s OK to be who I am, just as God made me. I don’t have to fit into someone’s mold. I just need to love the people around me and be myself. I hope that I may be that person to my children’s friends.
To the Ends of the Earth 