Learning to hear & recognize God's voice
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is a trio of stained glass church windows.
A link at the end of this post will take you to the challenge, hosted on Sandra’s blog “By The Book“.
Sandra’s blog and more window photos are here: Thursday’s Windows
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Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Richard Roeper
Has Thanksgiving become just a day on the calendar that marks Black Friday Sales?
Or just a day to eat turkey and all the trimmings before watching the game?
Do you find yourself rushing past Thanksgiving as you decorate, make your gift list for shopping, and schedule Christmas activities?
Remember to take time to give thanks. And maybe a few minutes to read the history of Thanksgiving.
Follow @learning2hearMy photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is windows on the front of a charming cottage. I could spend hours on that porch, the view from there is a pond with a fountain in the middle; it’s a beautiful, peaceful setting.
A link at the end of this post will take you to the challenge, hosted on Sandra’s blog “By The Book“.
Sandra’s blog and more window photos are here: Thursday’s Windows
Follow @learning2hearWalking carefully through the pile of debris that was once someone’s home, I was overcome with sadness at the utter destruction I was witnessing. From a distance it looked like a huge pile of rubble, one of many that marked the path of an unstoppable monster storm. In some places there were only foundations left, the homes and buildings gone, swept clean by wind and water.
But many homes, like this one, looked like they had been smashed by an angry monster hand, crushing everything inside. I grieved for those who had lived here as I observed furniture reduced to a pile of wood, tangled with soggy blankets. Clothing lay in a puddle of muddy water with shoes and a hat. Walls were gone where rooms once held belongings that were now twisted into mangled heaps. I realized there was little chance of finding anything worth salvaging for this family. I hoped and prayed they had evacuated and were safe and warm with a friend or relative, or in a shelter.
From Rochelle Wisoff-Fields – “Every Friday authors from around the world gather here to share their 100-words and offer constructive crit and encouragement to each other. This creates a wonderful opportunity for free reading of very fresh fiction! Readers are encouraged to comment as well.”
Links are included at the end of this post for Rochelle’s blog, and for more Friday Fictioneers stories.
The weekly writing prompt is from a photo posted by Rochelle:
Garrett reached around the crowd of people and grabbed the toy Anabella wanted. Why hadn’t he just bought it for her yesterday when she pointed it out? But no, he was in a hurry, rushing her past the booths and out to the car. Watching the game had been more important to him than enjoying the street fair with his little girl, or stopping to buy her a special toy.
Now he was in a hurry again, but for a very different reason. As he hurried to the hospital Garrett prayed Anabella would live to play with her new toy.
This is my first time trying this writing challenge, and it took several drafts before I finally hit ‘Publish’!
Visit Rochelle’s blog and read her entry for this week, Circle In A Spiral, as well as other Friday Fictioneers entries. If you like to write and like a challenge, find out how you can join Friday Fictioneers.
Follow @learning2hearThis week’s Travel Theme photo challenge from Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? is Bright.
Bright fireworks against a dark night sky.
Bright sunshine reflected on the water.
Bright sunlight glitters like diamonds sprinkled on the water.
See Ailsa’s and other Travel Theme photos here, and consider adding your own Bright photos to the theme.
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is about “the shapes and rhythms that make up the geometry of our world.”
More submissions to this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry
Follow @learning2hearMy photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is windows at the top of a round barn.
A link at the end of this post will take you to the challenge, hosted on Sandra’s blog “By The Book“.
Sandra’s blog and more window photos are here: Thursday’s Windows
Follow @learning2hearThis week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is to post examples of foreign. I haven’t been in a foreign country as an adult, so my examples are a different kind of foreign.
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” L.P. Hartley
These high-school-age young ladies in elegant antebellum costumes were selected as Dogwood Trail Court Maids and festival ambassadors. Their colorful costumes look foreign next to people dressed in today’s casual styles. They definitely dressed differently in the past!
The work involved in making these stone fence posts without current machinery is a foreign concept to fence post manufacturing now. Imagine how long it took to build a fence in the Kansas prairie! If you look closely you can see the fossil shells mentioned in the sign.
We saw this car parked along a side street, or at least I think it’s a car. It might be a fancy golf cart. Either way, the design is foreign to me.
Here’s a couple of foreign quotes to finish off this week’s challenge:
“So the gentle poet’s name
To foreign parts is blown by fame;
Seek him in his native town,
He is hidden and unknown.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men like women who write. Even though they don’t say so.
A writer is a foreign country.” Marguerite Duras
More submissions to this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign
Follow @learning2hearMy photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is a church window with a unique shape. A link at the end of this post will take you to the challenge, hosted on Sandra’s blog “By The Book“.
This is the window from the inside view.
I like the way the design forms a cross in the uppermost section.
The outside view is a close-up of the top section where the cross is formed.
Sandra’s blog and more window photos are here: Thursday’s Windows
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Hearing His Voice 