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August 7, 2017

New Website! Come and see Lakelight.

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As of this week, Rowan and I have a new website up and running, which we are excited to share with you.  It’s called Lakelight and it is intended to be the beginning of a vision we are called to build, a Christian sanctuary for the lost and the weary. Do come and have a look.


If you like what you see, we’d love you to join us on the next stage of the journey as we add content, by following the blog and/or subscribing to our infrequent mailing list.  Use the contact form or email us at subscribe@lakelight.org to tell us what you think!


Here is the first blog post “On Not Getting a Grip”


https://lakelight.org/2017/08/05/foundations-on-not-getting-a-grip/


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Published on August 07, 2017 05:29

August 5, 2017

163. Gold (Colour 8)

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My wedding band is deeply precious to me, for obvious reasons, but the way the light glints off the metal is a beautiful thing that often makes me catch my breath. I remember once giving a word from prayer to a lovely lady, which was to let her know that God appreciates her like a beautiful ring. He is always looking down and smiling at the sparkles and shine that she makes, and twiddling her around on his finger to show the facets of light.


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Published on August 05, 2017 08:17

August 3, 2017

162. White (Colour 7)

 


 


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So many flowers are white, aren’t they, which seems odd when they are meant to attract insects. Most white blooms have a strong fragrance instead of a deep colour. Lilies especially make us think of purity, and yet have a heavy, pungent aroma, and their pollen stains dreadfully. I love white petals that have a translucent quality, ones that let the light shine through. They remind me of bridal veils and the robes of Ascension, whose dazzling whiteness would have made soap-powder companies weep.


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Published on August 03, 2017 08:14

August 1, 2017

161. Orange (Colour 6)

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Orange seems a colour saturated in life, full of zest and cheerfulness. I always feel it’s a colour I can’t quite live up to, as though if I wore it, I would be living a lie somehow, being quite a serious introvert living with an energy disorder. And yet, this is hue that keeps on giving out its brightness, a concentrated juice that never stops flowing, and brings us the Florida sunshine and the Californian sky, spanning a continent coast to coast, and saying, “Yes, you too can guzzle down the dream!”


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Published on August 01, 2017 08:10

July 29, 2017

160. Purple (colour 5)

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Today’s piece is an excerpt from my book of devotions “Garden of God’s Heart” because I always think of azaleas when purple comes to mind.


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“Like an alien welcomed onto English Victorian soil where most foreigners were spurned, your exotic blooms made their home here in the grey and green, shivering despite wearing your bright, crinkle-edged shawls. Whenever I turn a garden path and see you I am back at Manderley again, down by the Cornish shore, on high, blustery pathways looking out to Smugglers’ Bay, feeling mysterious and windswept.


Your Eastern hues confound us; saffron and amethyst, spice and depth that intoxicate and cheer those of us used to smaller, more subtle (more Anglican) displays of glory. We are learning to see this is not ostentation, but your own natural way, free from artfulness, not tightlipped or anxious like us, but careless, unconscious self-abandonment, true liberty despite edging a rectangle of manicured green; caged and domesticated, but free in your colour-saturated vivacity.”


 


text and photo © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017


Garden of God’s Heart is available on Amazon, Lulu, and the Barnes and Noble website.


 


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Published on July 29, 2017 07:56

July 27, 2017

159. Green (Colour 4)

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As an artist, I can tell you that the one colour you never seem to have enough shades of, is green. The amount of different shades and tones of green in a landscape is astounding, as if God simply could not get enough of making them, but also because of the sheer number of leaves on the trees and blades in the grass, so that there is a myriad of angles and ways of catching and reflecting the light, or hiding in shadow. Creator God knows that one big mass of this colour needs to be broken up; given facets like a jewel to show its true beauty.


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Published on July 27, 2017 12:21

July 25, 2017

158. Red (Colour 3)

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Friend or foe? Sometimes colours call out a warning, and red is very often used as a sign of danger. Poisoned apple perhaps, or is it safe to eat? We breed our fruit now to make it look more appetising, and it can, if hurried on or waxed, or refrigerated for importation, seem a little false or unnatural. But red can also mean luscious and that goes for strawberries and lips too. Red is the colour of passion and of the blood that we carry unseen.
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Published on July 25, 2017 04:19

July 22, 2017

157. Yellow (colour 2)

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Small sun with petals flaring, golden circlet fit for a fairy queen, a bright burst of unexpected heaven. My wonder at seeing such magnificent primary colour is that we call the plant it comes from a weed, and that we can conceive of calling it a nuisance. Surely we should simply be amazed that it deigns to cross our path (or patio)?
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Published on July 22, 2017 07:17

July 20, 2017

156. Blue (Colour 1)

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St Francis said that after spending time in a meadow, he would have to come home and wring the sky out of his clothes. I imagine the Italian sky looked blue for a lot more of the time than it does here in the UK, but still, we get our fair share of the full range of blues, from the ocean of air that the summer swallows spiral in, to the palest shade on the horizon just before dawn.
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Published on July 20, 2017 07:14

July 19, 2017

Wonder Wall (Godspace link)

Dear readers, if you enjoy my work, you might like to pop over to Godspace today and read my short story “Wonder Wall” about extending hospitality to ourselves and others. Spoiler: there is a snail in it

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Published on July 19, 2017 04:13