The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.
—Psalm 74:16
We can never go home again in this life—going home is the blessed hope of the next life—to be home in the eternal life with the Lord Jesus Christ who is the light of this world, and the next. He is the way, the truth, and the life.That red-letter day of the inception of the end of this age draws ever closer.
The end of this age is the gateway to the Lord’s terrestrial millennial kingdom which is the age of the final prelude to the new heaven and the new earth which he has prepared for us. What we can do to imagine what all this will be like is, at best, a fantasy—but what the Lord has promised is not. In this living moment, we can still choose to pay attention, each day and each night, to find the way to search ourselves and return to the light.
This is the light of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, who gave us the life and the blessed hope that sustains us. In the love, warmth, clarity and grace of his light we can choose to gratefully prepare for the unfolding reality of what will surely be far beyond what the mind, the eye, the other senses and any devices which we may have available to us, can only scarcely begin to reveal.
RETURN TO THE LIGHT
Photographs to follow — check back this summer.
A Flickr collection will also be available soon.
These will be selected scenes gratefully observed from simply looking upward, from a backyard perch or while out on a longer walk, and sometimes from unexpected discoveries made far from home.
Wherever these discoveries may be, it is the time spent there that matters most. If the moment cannot be shared, the camera becomes both witness and friend.
When the mind is patient and watchful, time slows down. You begin to notice the lesser-traveled roads, the forgotten places, and the ever-changing light that rewards those willing to wait.
Many of these images were made in California and across the vast, starkly beautiful American West — that great open backyard of the imagination.
