http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/prompt-dance/
I want to do the Photographer’s Challenge for today’s Daily Prompt- Movement. The moment is my younger colleague, dancing with his bride for the first time as a married couple on their wedding day. I enjoyed it a lot, I married them!
I am a hopelessly lost romantic at heart, there is something so beautiful about this first dance together for me…
Do you have a reputation? What is it, and where did it come from? Is it accurate? What do you think about it?
Photographers, artists, poets: show us YOU.
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Oh man, this is a difficult question. How much of me is visible in my blog? How much is just a projection of who I really want to be?
I am not so good at self knowledge, sometimes the people around me knows much more about my reputation than I do…
My reputation: I do love motorbikes/ travel/ photography. I don’t like to fight, or be negative on someone else’s blog.
Maybe we should ask some regular readers: What would you think about my reputation, and would you think it is accurate?
Meanwhile- here I am at a famous landmark on South Africa’s Route 62… it is actually just a very nice pub in the middle of nowhere with an awesome name…
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/prompt-skin/
If I were a better writer I would have attempted to write this story from the point of view of a shrimp in Durban Harbour at low tide… How I have escaped the fisherman looking for bait. How I evaded the hungry flock of seagulls just waiting for me to show the tiniest part of my crustacian anatomy. But I dont think the shrimp has evaded all that danger. Me thinks he got caught, put on a hook as bait, and landed in the mouth of a huge sea fish. I think the fish has fed a Zulu family of nine people in a little rondavel overlooking the Indian Ocean…
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/prompt-hear/
My secret today is: I am struggling to get into gear! I do not have anything to say today…
This secret appliance was made by Husqvarna… what could it be? It doesn’t look like a sewing machine or a Moto X bike…
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/daily-prompt-confident/
Are you good at what you do? What would you like to be better at.
Photographers, artists, poets: show us CONFIDENT.
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In my job as a pastor in a large rural church, this is not an easy question. I think a lot of people wouldn’t know what we do every week, some make jokes about only working for an hour on a Sunday morning… We are also at the receiving end of a lot of jokes, and worse, abuse. Some pastors may deserve the bad names we are called. But most of my colleagues I know are honorable men and women who wants to live a life of love and service to their fellow human beings…
The object of this post is not to discuss the being or not of God, the sins of pastors, the huge mistakes that the Church has made over the years- I am just not interested in fighting with anyone over differing opinions. This post is just to describe what I experience and do in my daily life as a rural pastor.
There is a reason why we spend 6 years at university to be pastors in our church. I have another 2 years of training with a Masters Degree in Practical Theology. That is 8 years worth of my life at university! With that time spent at university I could have been a doctor, or a lawyer or somebody else rich and glamorous in our society. I chose the other way…
There is just so much to be and do for a church. I can’t think of any one person doing all the ministry tasks very good. So my answer to this question: Am I good at what I do, would be a very reserved “Sometimes…”
What do pastors do in a rural church in South Africa?
What would I love to be better at?
But that, I think, is enough about me…
Me conducting a wedding last year- a guest’s photo…
The Daily Prompt asked: Do you play in your daily life? I do! I take a camera along when I work. Like today…
I had the most amazing afternoon. I had to conduct a wedding at a Game Ranch this afternoon. It was an outdoor wedding, and it has rained this past week- we were rather anxious about the clouds forming. But I did take my cameras, the 400D and the Powershot. Here is just a little view of a part of my work. If it looks like a wonderful job- just remember I stood in a graveyard conducting a funeral yesterday. We pastors must have the capacity to handle an emotional roller coaster. From a funeral to a wedding in a day!
I think it would not be good form to show the bride and groom while they are still at their wedding feast at the moment.
Maybe when they left the scene of the wedding itself would be ok…
Now-the guests…
What are you humans up to?
Not a Chev Impala- the REAL Impala- a beautiful ram
and a very young Impala ram…
So yes- some days it is so good to have my job, other days it is really, really hard… Today was all good!
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/daily-prompt-safety-first/
Limited overs Cricket can be quite dangerous, with all the balls flying around! Here I am with my two eldest sons, at Supersport Park in Centurion (Pretoria) at a local Titans game, but wearing our national team- the Proteas- supporting gear. This is a hard-hat area!
We all know someone who could use a pep talk… so write them one!
Photographers, artists, poets: show us CHEER.
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The part of South Africa where I live, is prone to droughts. It is planting time for the farmers, and they urgently need rain to have enough moisture to plant.
So how can I cheer them up? By my photos taken just now, of the view outside my home office window…
When you have over 330 days of sunshine in a year, this is a most welcome sight… my friends in England and Ireland would not understand,.. 🙂
6:00AM: the best hour of the day, or too close to your 3:00AM bedtime?
Photographers, artists, poets: show us DAWN.
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Yesterday I missed my first posting in months! I was away on a church camp, and we camped with our caravans. Yesterday morning I went for a walk in nature with my camera in hand. Just after dawn. And I will share a photo or two with you. On Friday night we had the most wonderful sound in a dry land- the sound of rain on the roof of a caravan. And the next morning it showed in nature’s joy…
Here is Dawn in the South African Bushveld, maybe not quite as expected… Remember it is spring in the Southern Hemisphere…
Sunrise in a drop of rain…
Hey Bro- Where did you find your morning coffee?
Little red spider looking for breakfast…
An Impala has just passed this way!
(Title in an Austin Powers voice! )
This IS my happy face… On my bike I am free!
Photographers, artists, poets: show us FREE.
The Rider 