Red tinge of autumn

on the maple tree out front -

     four summer weeks left!

Optional third line -

      fall now downloading.

I think I saw this ("downloading fall") on a sign at Dowm Wind Sports as I walked by.

 Ok - getting back on schedule, here is the prayer for today.  And I do have to say that while I'm not using it today, I do love the passage from Exodus - Moses' sister speaking up and asking Pharaoh's daughter if she should get someone to look after the baby for her!

And I have to say that I like this vision from Isaiah better than the bit from 2 Chronicles 7:14 about how "if my people will humble themselves and pray and seek my face...." because obviously (to me, at least) we (as a species and even perhaps as individuals) are not going to do that, and salvation is just going to have to be God's business or it isn't going to happen at all.  (IMHO)

So - the prayer

 God over all,

we see wildfire smoke in the heavens

and the earth wearing out like an old shirt with a frayed collar,

and people dying (and being bombed and killed left and right) 

it says "like gnats" but I find that just too hard to say!

We confess that too often we have refused 

to let you transform and renew our minds,

but have instead continued to be conformed to this age.

We have thought more highly of ourselves

than we ought to have thunk.

But now finally we lift our eyes 

looking for your "forever" salvation

and for your never ending deliverance. 

Help us see, and believe, and live. 

 

 

Ok - what's the deal, Charlie?  Where have you been?

Well, I can tell you where I've been, not sure if I know what the deal has been!  We've been at camp, and always before there have been two or three places on the property where there was enough cell phone service to get on-line, get emails, post things.   But not this time - I could make phone calls, but couldn't get on-line.  So here (posted below) are the haikus that I wrote but couldn't get to you!

 

And a couple of pictures to go with them - phragmities and sunflowers -

 

bonus haiku from Aug 19

Small bird clings to tall

green spike, bending it earthward

       swinging phragmities!

       

 

For Aug 22
Hummingbird toying
with yellow squash blossom - then
        yikes - comes right at me!

Fortunately he/she braked and turned!

For Aug 21

Sunlight and raindrops
on green leaves make sparkles like
      forestland diamonds.

For Aug 20

Faces turn one way,
then flip, following the sun -
     Hall Farms Sunflowers.

Zucchini brownies -

sounds perfect; what could go wrong?

      Crumbly -  epic fail!!