be still...

These eight words came to me as I walked around the lake

last Friday on a misty, foggy, still morning.

Maybe I don't need to see clearly all the time.

The following excerpt from Father Joseph Breighner's post

at CatholicReview.org

sums it up better than I can...

Just know that God is, and that God is in charge. We look at life with such limited human vision. God looks at life and knows. When we just get quiet enough to just know, it's enough just to know that we know. It's enough to know that we are one with God. Often in our busyness, we are individual egos – individual mind-bodies – running around doing all kinds of things. When we just know, we know that just to be is enough. Let God be in charge of life and of our personal lives.

We Catholics can be busy pray-ers. We say lots of words, sometimes official words, even necessary words, as well as private devotional prayers. We seem to like to be busy and anxious even in our prayers just in case God won't notice us, or to make sure we tell God exactly what to do.

Words are helpful, certainly necessary for public worship. But the purpose of all prayer is simply to bring ourselves and our world into the presence of God. When we go through life with the consciousness of God always living with us, always living in us, and always living through us...

...then life itself becomes a constant prayer.

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original photo SOOC

iPhone 5

ProCamera app

Crown Hill Lake

early on a misty morning

Here are some more SOOC shots

from my walk that day:

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The top image was

edited on my iPad Mini

with the following apps:

Snapseed

(straighten and crop)

 PicTapGo!

Cool It Down (50%)

+

Alabaster (15%)

Image Blender

using Kim Klassen's texture:

kk_myrtle (Soft Light 30%)

Phonto

font: Avenir Next Condensed Ultra Light

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Linking up with

A Weekend Walk

Texture Tuesday

(seriously, I had all this done before I saw Kim's post today)

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