catching up

I've been a little behind on posting Project 365 shots. I'm not sure how a week slipped away from me, but there you have it. So without further ado, here are the missing week's photos (along with a couple of bonus Instagram shots).

Monday: a photo from my Bible Study.

Tuesday: Emma under our willow tree

Wednesday: Stan's grandma's Bible & reading in the rain
 

Thurday: Fog

Friday: Leftover crafting scraps & prayer time at Chruch

Saturday: Hint of Spring

A poem Chesterton recalls writing as a child:

"I asked through what incantation or prenatal purgatories I must have passed, to earn the reward of looking at a dandelion."

This childhood sense of wonder stayed with him:

And since I have owned a garden (for I cannot say I have been a gardener) I have realised better than I did that there really is a case against weeds. But in substance what I said about the dandelion is exactly what I should say about the sunflower or the sun, or the glory which (as the poet said) is brighter than the sun. The only way to enjoy even a weed is to feel unworthy even of a weed. -G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography 

daddy love

It is far too late to think of clever things to write. So I will just leave the photos again so speak for themselves about the sweet love between a daddy and his daughter. 

“Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.” – G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Can I quote you on that?

I decided, quite by accident, to add a quote to each of my 365 pictures this year. Maybe I'm a little hopeful that I'll be able to find 365 quotes that seem to fit my photo and mood of each day this year, but hey, it's still the middle of January and there is still much to hope for. So here's hoping I'll make it another year with pictures and quotes... Either way it surely is a life worth living!

The things that we love tell us what we are.
-St. Thomas Aquinas

Inspired by The Brave Girls Club
Everything Costs Something

"And, for this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But, for them, it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover, and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on Earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
-C.S. Lewis

"Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee, O Lord"
-Saint Augustine

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
-Mother Teresa of Calcutta

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20

Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday.
Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam...
And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva...
So tweasure your wuv.
-The Impressive Clergyman, The Princess Bride

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We can no longer live as rats. We know too much.
-The Secret of Nimh