Sunday in Pictures.

Sunday I decided to take a bunch of pictures.  I'll explain a little about each picture.  

I got to church at around 8:30.  I then proceeded to take pictures of pretty much anything that caught my eye.  Since I think close ups of flowers are pretty awesome, I decided to take some!  (click on any of the pictures to see them in a larger format)

On the top left you can see Jonny walking by.  On the top right we see the front of the room where we do church.  Lower left we are staring at some tree branches.  Lower right is what you see when you look over the front church fence. 

Just some random close-ups.  You can probably figure them out!  As you probably have noticed, I have fun taking pictures and grouping them...  I'm kind of experimenting so far... 

I found this doll in Valenii when we pulled on to the church property.  I thought it was strange and wanted to share the feeling with anyone who happens to see this.   Enjoy.  

These last two pictures are for those who are interested in how the building is progressing.  As you can see, the roof is finished, and windows were just installed a few days ago.  It's going along nicely and its exciting to see it moving towards being finished!   

Thanks for taking a look     ☺

-Josh 

Sights and sounds.

This morning I got up at 5:30 to watch the sunrise.  When I got up it was already light outside, by the time I got out past the houses the sun was up as you see it below.  Since I wanted to see the whole sunrise I was a bit disappointed.  The time I love most to see is when the sun is almost out but not quite, so I missed that.  Plus, the batteries in the camera were pretty much dead when I turned it on, that way I only got three pictures...  Still it was a really pretty morning.  

One thing that was pretty cool was when I got out past the houses and was in the open field, I could hear the whole town waking up.  Dogs barking, lots of roosters crowing, cars going through the intersection in the center, and many other sounds, some recognizable others not.  This got me to thinking later that sometimes I'm so surrounded by so many sounds that I can't hear them all...  they get muddled, and confusing.  Houses block certain sounds while other sounds close around us drown others out.  But when I go out where there is comparative silence, I can hear so many things that I couldn't, and was distracted from hearing before.  This is where I want to take it, I know its simple, and it should be obvious, but I find myself forgetting so often that it might be useful to someone else.  Its this:  We are so surrounded by distracting things in life that we forget to listen for what God wants to tell us.  Life gets really busy a lot of times, but we need to make time for that little bit of silence and just listen.  We can easily be missing the big picture, and what God wanted us to be about.