Is this your time to bloom? I enjoy watching my magnolia tree produce its flowering blooms every spring. Just like clockwork the white flowers started blooming early June and produced its last bloom this week. Or so I thought… This morning a patch of white caught my eye as I realized there was one more…
Author: Clarence Burke
A Pretty Place for Sunrise
On this date last year, I was in Greenville, SC for my goddaughter’s graduation from Furman University. One of my bucket list photo locations was an hour away, but did I have the time and energy to travel to Fred W. Symmes Chapel (aka Pretty Place) in Cleveland, SC for sunrise? I left my hotel…
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CHRIST HAS RISEN!
Happy Resurrection Day! As we celebrate, let us celebrate the real reason for the season, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The reason we are confident of eternal life is because Jesus rose from the dead to redeem us back to the Father. John 3:16 states “For God so loved the world, that He gave His…
WHO’S IN CONTROL?
Spring doesn’t officially start until March 20th but for me, It started February 8th when I noticed daffodils blooming in a neighbor’s yard. Strange because they are not scheduled to bloom until March in our area. I decided to visit Duke Gardens to see what else was in bloom. As I walked through the gardens,…
EMBRACE YOUR VISION
To some, this is a puddle, but to me, this is a photo opportunity. Several passed by as I crouched over this parking lot water puddle to ask, ‘What are you doing?’. I don’t blame them for all they saw was a middle-aged man with a camera in hand on his knees in the middle…
REFLECTIONS ON 2016
As I await the new year, I pause to reflect on 2016. Like most years there were times that I laughed till I cried and cried till I laughed. 2016 was a year of celebration and mourning. It was a year of challenges but also a year full of successes. I thank God for another…
LET THE HEALING BEGIN
As I watched the election coverage and the bickering between partisan political commentators my thought was, ‘when will the healing begin?’. Whatever your political persuasion, now is the time to come together and begin the process. As Christians, 1 Timothy 2:1-2 commands us to pray for our leaders. The Apostle Paul wrote this…
CHASING FALL COLORS
Enjoy my photo journal from last week’s visit to the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.
TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE
In Ecclesiastes 4 Solomon is talking about relationships and how we depend on one another when working towards a greater goal. According to Pastor Warren Wiersbe, “Two are certainly better than one when it comes to working because two workers can get more done. Even when they divide the profits, they still get a better…