During the month of November, I'd like to give away five paperback copies of Singing from Silence to readers who offer helpful suggestions about improving the web design of Candle to the Sun. Together, let's make this a beautiful and friendly site! To make it easy to contact me with your ideas and to keep your contact information private, please use the form below to enter the giveaway. I will be looking forward to hearing from you. If you are one of the first five responders with a helpful suggestion, you will be recieving your copy of Singing from Silence in time to send it as a gift to a special someone who you'd like to introduce to Rich Mullins!
In publishing Singing from Silence, one of my goals has been to introduce Rich Mullins' life and work to a larger audience. The new blog on my website, Seeds Born to the Light, is bringing in visitors who are new to Rich and his music. I've been working on the design of the website lately, to make it simpler for them to find their way around. Yes, I am aware there is room for improvement! When I seek the blessing of poverty of spirit, I often find I have something to learn. This is one of those times! During the month of November, I'd like to give away five paperback copies of Singing from Silence to readers who offer helpful suggestions about improving the web design of Candle to the Sun. Together, let's make this a beautiful and friendly site! To make it easy to contact me with your ideas and to keep your contact information private, please use the form below to enter the giveaway. I will be looking forward to hearing from you. If you are one of the first five responders with a helpful suggestion, you will be recieving your copy of Singing from Silence in time to send it as a gift to a special someone who you'd like to introduce to Rich Mullins!
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I constantly watch the skies as I drive. Often, I see a parhelion. Sometimes called sundogs, these iridescent segments of rainbow flank the sun in the high clouds a certain latitude from the horizon. Most days, I'm the only person I know who sees them. My children see them, but only when I'm in the car to point them out, and my passengers are always quick to instruct me to keep my eyes on the road. They'll never be natural skywatchers like my father was. They claim I see sun dogs only because no one but me looks into the sun. My father flew weather reconnaisance heading into a typhoon during World War Two, and we always had in common our fascination with the skies. Toward the end of his life, he struggled with dementia, but I urgently wanted to share the vision of a parhelion with him. I'd call him when I spotted one, wherever I was, and ask him to look out the window. The parhelion doesn't last very long. Evanescent, ephemeral, a sun dog holds its short-lived candle to the sun. My father, who wasn't so steady on his feet by that time, couldn't get to the right place at the right time to see one. He died before we shared that vision. My father learned in the Navy at age seventeen to toss a pinch of spilled salt over his shoulder to ward off bad luck. One the other hand, he was one of the most rational, logical people I've ever known. He couldn't believe what his eyes did not tell him about parhelia. But all the reason in the world won't nullify the existence of a sun dog. It doesn't matter how many people can't, don't, or won't see it--there it is. I was the one with the blessing--or from another point of veiw, the burden--of seeing sun dogs. But now my father has the advantage over me. A sun dog is only a sliver of the sky, and God's love is so much larger than all the heavens. Now my father's vision is so much improved over mine. I recently contributed an interview on Indie Book Spot. I hope you have a chance to visit the site and check out the interview! Best blessings, Pam Following doctors' instruction can be tedious. But I'm happy to say my doctor has ordered me to get myself down to Letcher County, Ky. for the barnraising at Revelation Ranch! For once I'll be delighted to follow his orders and I hope I see you there! Click on the photo shown here for the schedule of events. Click here for a map of the Isom Fair Grounds, where we will meet at 7:00 am for breakfast, followed by a caravan procession to the building site. |
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