Date night last night celebrating 14 years married to my lovely Amber.

A mosaic made by a local in West Point, GA. Beautiful.

There is no one more beautiful, more loving, more full of grace, more merciful, more truthful, more wise and just than Jesus, and it is so freeing to know what God is like–no longer shrouded in mystery, but revealed concretely and completely in Jesus. This challenges and changes me and—when I am in a place of contemplating it–energizes me for me ministry like nothing else.

I have had a great system for backing up photos for years:

• Google Photos app automatically backs up my photos to Google Photos cloud
• Google Photos cloud syncs with Google Drive
• Google Drive syncs with laptop

So I have copies on my phone, the cloud, and laptop.

Now that Google has de-coupled Google Photos from Google Drive, that flow has been seriously broken. I’ll be switching to Microsoft OneDrive, which is simpler, more integrated into my OS, and and works as expected.

“Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without Church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without contrition. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ living and incarnate”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

A wonderful reflection. I used to celebrate ad orientem (fading liturgical East) weekly at our Wednesday Eucharist. Properly understood it is a beautiful way to worship together, and as Porter notes, can actually facilitate a deep sense of common worship.

A Few Thoughts on Eucharistic Orientation – Porter C. Taylor