An Old Shed

That's what we called small storage buildings when I was small, living in Louisiana. Today I went to my wife's grandmother's home, early in the morning for pictures. She lives on the foot of a pretty big hill/mountail and there are a couple of trails leading up the hill.

I found this old shed, set up the tripod and camera, and took a few picts of the structure in a setting of summer green.

Yuu Town, Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture...

Shot with my 40D and Tokina 12-24mm F4.

Why Pray?

by George MacDonald, The Word of Jesus on Prayer

‘But if God is so good as you represent him, and if he knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask him for anything?’

I answer, What if he knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God’s idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need—the need of himself? What if the good of all our smaller and lower needs lies in this, that they help to drive us to God? Hunger may drive the runaway child home, and he may or may not be fed at once, but he needs his mother more than his dinner. Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need; prayer is the beginning of that communion, and some need is the motive of that prayer. Our wants are for the sake of our coming into communion with God, our eternal need. If gratitude and love immediately followed the supply of our needs, if God our Saviour was the one thought of our hearts, then it might be unnecessary that we should ask for anything we need. But seeing we take our supplies as a matter of course, feeling as if they came out of nothing, or from the earth, or our own thoughts, instead of out of a heart of love and a will which alone is force, it is needful that we should be made feel some at least of our wants, that we may seek him who alone supplies all of them, and find his every gift a window to his heart of truth. So begins a communion, a talking with God, a coming-to-one with him, which is the sole end of prayer, yea, of existence itself in its infinite phases. We must ask that we may receive; but that we should receive what we ask in respect of our lower needs, is not God’s end in making us pray, for he could give us everything without that: to bring his child to his knee, God withholds that man may ask.

The 32nd Western Japan Missions Seminar (Softball)

第３２回西日本宣教セミナー、ソフトボール大会

Just a bit of a break between lectures...The Miracle Okayama Team took the top honors!

写真を数枚とりました。。。各写真を CLICK してみて下さい。

Pastor Kevin

Canon EOS 40D & EF 135 F2L

Swallowtails Mating

Happened upon this happy couple this morning, very near our home.

In His Grip,
Kevin

Shot with Canon EOS 40D and EF-S 60 F2.8 Macro...please try the large view...click on the image

a jealous intruder flew into the frame

Flags/Iris 2008

The Flags/Iris are blooming at Kikko Park, near Kintai Bridge. I really look forward to this "event" every June.

All shot with my Canon EOS 40D and "L" glass.

In His Grip,
Kevin

A Variety of Damselflies

Around mid-April I began noticing the damsels were finally out. It's some work following these tiny bugs around, but lots of fun when an image comes out sharp and crisp!

In His Grip,
Kevin

Please see the large view!


Ischnura Asiatica/Japanese Blue-tail
Male



Female





Mnais pruinosa Selys/Asahinakawa Damselfly
Male




Latycnemis Foliacea Sasakii/Gunbai Damselfly

Male

Female