Monday, August 19, 2019

Photo Lectio

It’s not very often that I am attentive enough or quick enough to capture moments like these.


The praying mantis is eating a yellow jacket (wasp? hornet?). It was mesmerizing to watch close up, to have the praying mantis turn and make direct eye contact with me, and to be able to take a photo, but yet, the compassion for the victim. And as I looked at the photo more closely, there was more and more to notice.

“We do not live in a simple world.” (Mary Oliver)

Let us walk in the holy presence.

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