That which is most universal is most personal, indeed there is nothing human which is strange to us.
-Nouwen

The harvest is here...

The harvest is here...
The kingdom is near...

Thursday, September 24, 2009

The lake in the sky: a trip to Namtso

I have seen:

A Tibetan man as old as time with Aviator sunglasses

The freckles on an egg like stars in the sky

Herds of livestock like ants dotting lime green hills

Roads so high one drives through the clouds

Four ducks traverse a wilderness

A lake so blue and wide one mistakes it for the sky with the dizzying
feeling of walking upside down

Bread escape into the waves like a renegade lifeboat

A woman in a long wool coat standing before a frozen carcass in the low
light of dawn

As many shades of green as the human eye can process

Three filthy siblings who do not know where they are from but only that
they are hungry

Chinese people have entire conversations with bits of bread and cakes
barely clinging to the inside of their mouths

Stones and caves that appear to be rigid versions of a child's mound of
pockmarked play dough

Villages mistaken for postcards a blink and then gone


I must have seen a thousand yaks.



He has promised to bring the good work that He started in you to completion...
And He's more committed to that than you are.

Are they looking out or in?