Sunday, January 09, 2011

The real reason I sat down to write tonight....

Today we celebrated the 16 year ministry of our priest, Margaret Taylor as it was her last time with us prior to retirement. It was a service and a feast and fellowship never to forget. It is easy to live a life and become slightly abraded, even jaded so that profound spiritual experience is an historic memory, distant in the past. Today I was reminded that if you are open to the Spirit, then profound spiritual experience can be experienced in fellowship, in a warm, open, loving, family.

On FaceBook I quipped "An ebullient celebration today...glad the kleenex was handy..." . It was emotional and it was warm, and it was fun, so we laughed and cried. A complete game.

Our parish now looks to the future for new leadership, for the first time. It will be an interesting journey...

The first photo with that camera

I was more than pleasantly surprised by this photo. My first film photo taken in 10 years, taken with that amazing 40mm lens on the Bronica. This file, after being scanned, was only 2.14 mb, which is astonishingly small compared to similiar shots taken with my Nikon D-90.