Monday, April 29, 2013

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April 29, 2013


(Please Read: Google has reintroduced the thumbnails at the bottom of the photos after you double click on any image.)


   I haven't put a post out in a few weeks so here are just a few photos taken about three weeks ago. The first is for a friend, Bev, who liked a picture that had something of a stained glass look to it. So looking at the water in the woods here I somehow brought out what follows. The woods are indeed a Cathedral full of God's wondrous surprises that are prayer - ours and God's in us. 

   A new post will follow in a day or two.  

   Peace,  Bill Lagerstrom



- Cathedral -

Lynn told us all of the content of her spirit,
"Nature," she said, "is my church.
"It is where I am at home with God."
A valid expression of God's Desire I thought.

But thinking is not experiencing so I set out,
Where is this church in the woods ?
In the elements, water, rocks, trees, sky ……..
  Acadia, where else need I dare look -

Yes! Not a church but a Cathedral is there!
All the trappings of Saint Peter's in Rome are there –
The wondrous living sculptures of trees, rocks, sea, everywhere!
The stained glass windows in every view,
The leaf and snow covered floors of finest 'marble ..'
The grandeur that no human construction can emulate.

What did it take to see this wonder ?
The eyes of the heart to open –
Nothing more.

                                       Bill Lagerstrom    April 2013







Everything in life that we really accept
undergoes a change.

                           Katherine Mansfield


Look deeply into the tree one day
and it will reveal itself 
in its true reality -
showing us what God sees.


A view from Schoodic point.
This point is another part of Acadia National park




As one learns to see it becomes natural
to look not at the woods,
but into the woods-
and to be always surprised
even if nothing is there.

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The humor section: The accent is Maine/New England (Think "cahr" as in automobile)



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