We Ought To Have a PIcture-a poem

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith for the Years of Winter… ©

“We outa hab a pictu a dis.”

She could barely say the words

but she wanted a picture

We called her

The Phototerrorist

the one who could not feel

the world but through a lens

I take pictures now,

seeing the world

that way

The days are short and few

I want to feel each moment

twice

John Robert McFarland

johnrobertmcfarland@gmail.com

I started this blog several years ago, when we followed the grandchildren to the “place of winter,” Iron Mountain, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula [The UP]. I put that in the sub-title, Reflections on Faith from a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter, where life is defined by winter even in the summer! [This phrase is explained in the post for March 20, 2014.] The grandchildren, though, are grown up, so in May, 2015 we moved “home,” to Bloomington, IN, where we met and married. It’s not a “place of winter,” but we are still in winter years of the life cycle, so I am still trying to understand what it means to be a follower of Christ in winter…

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