Easter, $15 at the door please

So I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of charging to see an Easter Play...

I just have this weird feeling like, it's supposed to be shared, telling the story to people who need to see it in a certain light.  I did a lot of plays in High School and we charged for every one... but none of them had anything important to say, like "Free Life, come and get it."

I understand that plays cost money to put on, but feeding five thousand men costs money too... just saying

Tonight I realize that I am blessed to have grown up in a place where no matter what the cost, it's worth it for ONE person, if only one.  Do we have the best plays? I will tell you upfront that the answer is no.  But we are feeding a lot of people with what few loaves of bread we do have and a couple of fish...

I'm in no way downing any one who charges anything, I am in no place to judge any one, it's just my personal feelings... nothing more, nothing less.

Snow Panorama!

just a quick wrap around panorama of my yard.

My yard has never looked quite like this, since last time it snowed it wasn't this much

and last time it snowed this much this yard was nothing but trees.

Because enough people take pictures during the day

Some images from down town Charleston

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Surgery

Well, tomorrow I get to go under for my first ever surgery.  why? well I shot myself in the finger, accidents happen, you can be sure i'll never make another mistake with a firearm again.

i have no doubt that the vast majority of my time at the hospital will be waisted sitting around doing nothing (or maybe filling out more paper work.  you'd be amazed how much paper work needed to be done while I was sitting in a wheelchair bleeding of a gun shot wound in the waiting room of the ER...)

any way, this is a week of firsts, my first gun, my first gun shot wound (and last) my first surgery (and hopefully last).

I've said it before, I'll say it again. I HATE hospitals.

"Church for Ghosts"

a few more shots from the "Church for Ghosts" series.

Model:

Grace Todd

Chuck Hendrix

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What I want and what really is...

It's been a while since I blogged and this one is a breather...

What I want to have happen and what seems to be happening are at odds with each other.  In more than one way, I want to be moving forward, making strides toward the places I want to be, I don't even want to be at my destination yet, I just want to be heading that way...

The places I want to be going seem to either never get closer or move even further away, and while I haven't started moving backwards it feels like I haven't started moving forwards either.  To be quite honest it drives me a little bit crazy.  The question of weather or not the place I have been looking at going is even the place I'm supposed to go has been beating my faith to a pulp lately... It get's hard to hold on to Faith when half your brain starts working so hard against it.

I suppose it's a part of any journey, there are always the stretches that seem like they take far more time then they should.  Moments that feel like they will never end, like there really isn't a destination at all, like the only thing is that stretch of road that goes on forever and the scene never changes.

I certainly hope the scene changes soon, I trust it will, but that doesn't make it happen any less annoyingly slow...

New web Browsers are FUN

Made the jump from good old Fire Fox to Google Chrome and I have to say... rest in peace Fire Fox.

so far this new browser is a heck of a lot faster than Fire Fox, the people at Google are very very smart. but seriously though, how the heck do they make any money?  after all this thing is open source!