Download or read book Sunday Afternoon on the Porch written by Jim Heynen and published by Bureau Oak Book. This book was released on 2008 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, just before graduating from high school in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. He made a camera case from a worn-out boot, scraps from a tin can, and a clasp from his mother's purse. For the next several years, especially during the summers when he worked on his parents' dairy farm, he clicked the shutter of his trusty Argus all around the quiet town. Everett bought movie reel film in bulk from a mail-order house, rolled his own film, and developed it in a closet at home, but he never had the money to print his photographs. More than two thousand negatives stayed in a box while he married, raised a family, and worked as an electrical engineer in the Twin Cities. When he became ill with cancer in the fall of 2002--sixty years after he had developed the last of his bulk film--Everett opened his time capsule and printed the images from his youth. He died in 2003, having brought his childhood town back to life just as he was leaving it. A sense of peace radiates from these images. Whether skinny-dipping in the Turkey River, wheelbarrow-racing, threshing oats, milking cows, visiting with relatives after church, or hanging out at the drugstore or the movies, Ridgeway's hardworking citizens are modest and trusting and luminous in their graceful harmony and their unguarded affection for each other. Visiting the town in 2006 as he was writing the text to accompany these photographs, Jim Heynen crafted vignettes that perfectly complement these rediscovered images by blending fact and fiction to give context and voice to Ridgeway's citizens.
Download or read book Reflections from the Porch written by Jean B. Burden and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a thought I've heard many times after someone's death. When we look at the dash on the tombstone, what does it say about that person's life? How did he or she spend "the dash" in between the years etched on the marker of his or her life? And what am I doing to change myself, my community and my world during my small portion of His great dash? How am I using the gifts He has entrusted to me to be a part of someone else's destiny? It's a big question. But here's what I know for sure: God placed me here in a specific time and place, with a chosen family, with a certain skill and gift set, and He expects me to use those gifts to make a difference every single day. And there's more. He expects me sometimes to go way beyond what I believe I can do; He needs me sometimes just to leap into His arms, trusting Him to catch me and equip me to do whatever He has in store. Do I always feel equipped? Oh no, but His Word promises that if we follow His call, He will give us what we need to accomplish His tasks in His timing. Scary? Not really if we indeed have the faith of a mustard seed. In fact, in Romans 12, we are told that God has distributed a measure of faith to each one of us, so we must put ourselves out there in complete trust. Jean Burden has written a timely and inspirational devotional, her third, called, "Reflections From the Porch: Life Lessons from Boggy Road. Many of the 40 inspirational messages are about her and her family's experiences on their farm on Boggy Road. Jean says, "I pray that this devotional book will encourage you to be courageous as you face life's challenges and make the "dash" of your life count for eternity!"
Download or read book Across the Porch from God written by Flavia Weedon and published by Cedco Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One dozen true inspirational stories of grace & gratitude from a beloved mother/daughter writing team.
Download or read book Autumn s Back Porch written by Mike Hall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of poems dealing with the author's own personal reflections about life. They are works of encouragement, faith, and social consciousness meant to uplift the reader in their daily walk through their own individual journey. They were written as a message of hope for the trying times in which we currently find ourselves.
Download or read book Front Porch Reflections written by Teresa Cleary and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 devotions that look at life from the author's front porch to contemplate how God is active in life.
Download or read book Views From the Porch written by James M. Strom and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views from the Porch is designed to be just a bit of an escape from the maddening world around us. Much the same as Jesus did when He would rise well before the dawn and go out to a solitary place to pray, we need to do the same. Maybe it's your front porch, your chair in your bedroom, or your den. Maybe it's your kitchen table after the kids have gone to bed. Maybe it's in your car or on the bus on the way to work. Wherever your "alone" place is, it's important to take some time each day to spend alone with God. It is the author's hope that you will be inspired to go deeper and be drawn closer as you reflect on your spiritual walk with the Lord.
Download or read book Views From the Porch written by James M. and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views from the Porch is designed to be just a bit of an escape from the maddening world around us. Much the same as Jesus did when He would rise well before the dawn and go out to a solitary place to pray, we need to do the same. Maybe it's your front porch, your chair in your bedroom, or your den. Maybe it's your kitchen table after the kids have gone to bed. Maybe it's in your car or on the bus on the way to work. Wherever your "alone" place is, it's important to take some time each day to spend alone with God. It is the author's hope that you will be inspired to go deeper and be drawn closer as you reflect on your spiritual walk with the Lord.
Download or read book The Hope of Prayer and Reflection written by Roy Lessin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections from the Front Porch written by Harold D Fanning and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanning shares thoughtful and whimsical stories from his childhood, all whileteaching a few lessons along the way.
Download or read book The Porch written by Charlie Hailey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is something spooky and resonant about liminal places like docks, shorelines, decks, and perhaps most commonly porches. Here, Charlie Hailey meditates on porches in a way that is appropriately thoughtful, affecting, rich, and resonant. Porches, in his hands, become portals onto an endless array of large metaphysical questions: what is it to be in a place? How does one place teach us about the world and about ourselves, both as individuals and as a species? What are we-and the things we have built-in this world? In a time when questions of what makes society society and what sustains the individual are so paramount, Hailey's meditations are both a tonic and a series of welcome provocations"--
Download or read book Beyond the Front Porch written by John Pridgen and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the South, there was one thing that everyone seemed to have in common—a front porch. It was our collective window to our world. We would relax there as a family or sometimes even alone to watch the day’s events go by. They made up the crazy quilt that defines our lives. This collection of my memories takes you to a place beyond that old front porch. A place where you may laugh…you may cry…but you just may find a reflection of yourself!
Download or read book Reflections from the Front Porch written by Doris Wild Zumwalt and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the swing on the front porch of the beloved old family home in a small Texas town, the author reflects on her life and observes her new world. After fifty years of following her engineer husband around the world, she has finally found her "real" home.Doris Zumwalt's memoir is a collection of fifty-four short stories and poems, inspired by her life in a French country town, in big-city London, and in her new hometown. She writes lovingly about discovering her creativity: gardening, quilting, stitchery, writing, and art. Her poems range from the pathos of her mother's lonely grave site to the frivolity of what happens to a sock in the dryer. She paints colorful characters and vivid scenes in her short stories.Join the author on that old red swing and share her fascinating stories and poems filled with humor, emotion, surprise, delight, and discovery. Do come and set a spell!
Download or read book Reflections from the Porch written by Anita Dennis and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry and prose based on life experiences, observations, thoughts, and reflections
Download or read book Porch Reflections written by Corban Towers and published by . This book was released on 2025-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porch sitting is a delightful art form that naturally improves patience and discipline. Let this journal be your quiet place- your portable porch for inspiring reflection through writing, artistic expression, and vision mapping. This journal allows you to experience porch-sitting's beauty and healing power wherever you are. It includes over a hundred pages of interactive experiences that will enable you to fully take in your surroundings, unleash your inner thoughts, and practice mindfulness. Reflecting and journaling your thoughts are two of the most potent ways to help your inner self naturally heal and grow and empower you to live more intentionally. So grab your Porch Reflections journal and your favorite porch companion, whether it's a cup of something warm, a furry friend, or your art supplies, and join the worldwide community of reflective adventurers on the journey of self-discovery.
Download or read book Reflections from the Front Porch written by Mike Gill and published by Finishing Line Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poetry and poetic prose holds a beautiful word-sketch of a continuing world that surrounds us despite a smearing cloud of pandemic. Outside the boundaries of fear and lockdown, the narrator helps us escape to a parallel world where squirrels, foxes, maples and cicadas thrive with equal significance to the eyes that care to notice. And, despite the boundaries for lockdown social revolutions take birth in the human world that keeps questioning the rights and wrongs, revising the old thoughts. The question of solitude remains to be asked-When this will be all over will the recurring dream return? -Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, author of multiple books including Plankton Dreams: What I Learned in Special Ed (Open Humanities Press) Gill's poems remind us how hope is a practice-a practice of the daily, the quotidian, the front porch. Part of this practice is learning how to notice and observe where national traumas intersect with individual ones. Reflections from the Front Porch implicates us because the collection refuses the convenience of looking away, of washing our hands of complicity. Gill invites us to think about how scale is felt and dangerous fantasies of distance, separation from what we think has no bearing on us but in fact actively constitutes our lives and our relations with others. And such relations are often non-human: mint, maple, cucumber beetles. Whole ecologies of hope, "beauty / in [their] lasting act[s]." -Travis Chi Wing Lau, Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College, author of Paring (Finishing Line Press)
Download or read book Journey Through Reflections written by Kathryn C. Lang and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirations, insights and understandings about life to help create a walk of peace and joy collected from the newspaper column, Reflections from the Front Porch.
Download or read book Devotions from the Front Porch written by Thomas Nelson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's nothing quite like a front porch--a place that represents the warmth of home, a simpler pace of life, and a place to welcome others. Settle into a rocking chair, take a deep breath, and spend a few quiet moments with God. The inviting photography and devotions encourage you to slow down and enjoy these God-given gifts from the comfort of your front porch. Devotions from the Front Porch is a beautiful gift with: 90 devotions centered on the front porch Gorgeous photography Inviting and uplifting devotions Messages to soothe your soul and refresh your spirit This beautiful book invites you to retreat from the busyness of everyday life and reminds you that God is with you throughout each day. Devotions from the Front Porch is perfect for women looking for rest, community, and peaceful moments in God's presence. Other books in the Devotions from… series include Devotions from the Mountains, Devotions from the Lake, Devotions from the Beach, Devotions from the Kitchen Table, and Devotions from the Garden.
