Lent-Indentifying With Christ’s Suffering

Lenten season is the time when we especially identify with the sufferings of Jesus.  During Lent we walk the way of the cross, we share in his rejection when the religious leaders and others turned from him, rejected him, and plotted his death.  Lent is a time for repentance and renewal, a time to fall at the feet of Jesus and admit our sinfulness and our need of him.  Lent is a time to confess, and cry “Lord have mercy on me, a sinner!”  Lent is a time for humility and repentance, a time to get on our knees and get right with God.
-Robert Weber  

Lord, wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness…
hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities, 
create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.
-Psalms 51:7b, 8a, 9-10

February 6, 2008September 24, 2008 by ryanmthurman Categories: Art Photography, devotion, Lent, Photography, Psalms, Quotations Leave a comment

The Lord is My Shepherd

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. – Thomas Merton

The Lord is my Shepherd Who guides me-Psalm 23

January 18, 2008January 18, 2008 by ryanmthurman Categories: Art Photography, Church, Encouragement, Jesus, Photography, Psalms, Quotations, Scritpure Leave a comment

Let All Things Their Creator Bless

Praise the Lord, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!
For great is his steadfast love toward us,
and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord!—Psalm 117

Let all things their creator bless,
and worship him in humbleness,
O praise him, Alleluia!
Praise God the Father, praise the Son,
and praise the Spirit, Three in One:
O praise him, O praise him,
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
-from All Creatures of Our God and King-words written by Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)

January 11, 2008January 11, 2008 by ryanmthurman Categories: Art Photography, Christianity, Life, Photography, Psalms, Quotations, Scritpure, songs, spiritual Leave a comment