The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.
Psalm 23:1‭-‬3 NIV
— Seen in Israel

A pilgrim worships at a painting outside the tomb of Joseph of Arimethea and Nicodemus. I love the way she caresses the timeworn art and the way the colors came together. Jerusalem

Walk like you know where you are going. – Western Wall, Jerusalem

The gilded sun sets the evening aglow as it drops behind the distant mountains that bear Jerusalem on their back. Sweimeh, Jordan

A tranquil Montagu Beach mirrors the clouds and hues of sunset.

Nassau, Bahamas

I love riding through rural Alabama. The fields and abandoned homes remind me of the years I drove all over south Alabama visiting the families who lived in these homes and worked the fields.

I remember visiting an elderly couple — Frank and Leanna Moorer — in Pink Bottom, Alabama, a small community near Isom Bottom and Minter.

It was a cold winter day, so they were sitting next to a wood burning heater. I sat down with them and listened to them tell old stories while we ate parched peanuts and baked sweet potatoes.

Interestingly, I took this picture near Perdue Hill after we buried their son, Andrew, decades later.

Words and light reflections on the floor of Terminal J of the Miami International Airport remind me that “Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.” Psalms 119:105 NLT — Miami, FL

Just as the end of our days is beautiful when we look toward the sun, the end of our lives is colored with peace and hope when we look to the Son and believe in Him.

“For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” John 6:40 NIV

Autumn trees model the beauty of those humans who die with hope of living again.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 ESV

On a recent flight from Curaçao to Miami, the setting sun shown above and below the clouds, and glistened on the golden Caribbean Sea.

It reminds me that God is on both sides of the clouds in our life.

David said, “If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. Psalm 139:9‭-‬10 NIV

Wherever we are geographically, emotionally, spiritually, socially, financially, or in health “even there God’s hand will guide us, and His right hand will hold us fast.

Knowing God is with us, enables us to travel toward darkness or light with courage, faith, and hope.