Somewhere north of here
I took this photo through a car window.
Rain running down the glass.
Everything outside distorted.
Trees stretch into dark vertical smears.
The road disappears.
Even the horizon blurs.
Paul once wrote:
“Now we see through a glass darkly.”
I understand that line differently now.
I teach students how to see.
Edges.
Proportion.
Light against shadow.
Seeing clearly is the whole point of the class.
And yet the life I am living right now
is anything but clear.
The glass is wet.
Scripture says:
We walk by faith, not by sight.
Not by sight.
I have spent my entire career teaching people to trust their eyes.
Now I am learning to trust something else.
Even in this photograph
there is still one thing you can see.
The horizon.
Not clearly.
But enough.
A thin line of light.
Sometimes that is all you get.
And sometimes
it is enough to keep moving.
Tags: faith • formation • seeing • 1 Corinthians 13:12 • teaching • following
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Often times a thin line of light is all we need. The photo is absolutely amazing. Your work speaks to me as i too am learning to walk an unclear path trusting somethings not seen. Bravo my friend
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Thank you, Jam.
You know that path well.
Sometimes a thin line of light is enough, is it not?
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A little bit of light gives a little bit of hope and hope like can grow like wild fire.
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❤️ I loved reading this
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Through rain-streaked glass
the world forgets its edges
and I feel that too,
the quiet blur where certainty once lived.
Fear speaks first,
as it often does
telling me to turn back,
to wait for clearer skies.
But something steadier remains,
beneath the noise
like seasons that turn
without asking permission.
We have seen this before:
dark giving way,
light returning
without announcement.
That thin horizon
not promise, not proof,
but enough
meets something deeper in us
that still chooses forward.
Not because we see clearly,
but because we trust
that even in the blur,
we are being carried
into the next becoming.
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Ulrich —
I have been away from this space for a while now. Real-time adventures are giving me things to write about, but not allowing me time to do the writing. Soon maybe.
I am grateful for your presence here and for your encouragement. Your writing is a more of a companion piece to my writing and less like a comment. I have said it before – you need your own blog. Your own space to let this out. The world needs to read you.
In the meantime — if you are willing — I would like to share something with you outside of this public space. Send me your email if you are willing.
Thank you for your constant encouragement, my friend.
-Dean
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