by jamesbondly | Aug 12, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual
FRAILTY THE REALIZATION OF AGE The photo above is not me; it is Walter at ninety-eight, a man who lived the good life and ran the race. Walter convinced me I could walk a marathon. I was seventy when I walked my first marathon, three years have passed, and I have not...
by jamesbondly | May 12, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual, Storytelling-Tall Tales
Writing about God The Disciples, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Nathan, David, Gad, Solomon, Isaiah, the Prophets, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, all the others of the Bible, and the...
by jamesbondly | Feb 15, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual
Written Before Time Began We are walking documentaries. God wrote our stories before time began. As 2 Timothy 1:8-9 says, “God . . . had saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His purpose and grace which was...
by jamesbondly | Feb 4, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual
CAST THE FIRST STONE But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again, he stooped down and...
by jamesbondly | Jan 31, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual
Take Up Your Cross I’ve heard people talk about a problem and say it’s a cross they must bear, but is this what Jesus meant? Jesus meant something more profound than this when He told His disciples to carry their cross. He said to them, “If anyone...
by jamesbondly | Dec 28, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual, Storytelling-Tall Tales
The Digital Abyss Plenty to do, but not enough time Everything, including casual conversations, lectures, presentations, job interviews, books, movies, sermons, and the parables of the Bible, is artful storytelling—some creative non-fiction, some fiction, and...