A window in Rome: somehow move evocative than I find in Toronto.
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Before the table is spread.
This is a restaurant in Rome, Italy. I don't think we ate here - too early in the afternoon; but it was tempting.
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Cattle grazing by roadside, Kenya
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The Vatican at night, Rome, Italy
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Woman with blue umbrella, Kenya
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B & B window in Armagh, Ireland
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St. Martin's In the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, England
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St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland (Church of Ireland)
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Street - Houses, N. IrelandCreated on iPad SketchMee app
Colourful houses on a street in Northern Ireland.
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Rose: Philadelphia Church ruins - Turkey
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The 'Giant's Causeway' is a natural phenomenon in Northern Ireland. What you see are basalt columns that seem to interlock - about 40,000 of them, stretching into the North Atlantic.
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Chora Church - an ancient Christian church in what was Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey). 'Chora' meant outside the walls or city proper.
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When St. Paul visited Ephesus and spent several years of ministry there, he would have seen the Nike ‘swish’ very similar to that which has become almost ubiquitous in our day.
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Nevertheless, not my will but Yours be done . . .
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Dublin Fountain and StatuesThis sepia photo was taken while I was visiting in Dubling, Ireland. It is not far from Trinity College in a busy student and commercial area.
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Sepia of door at ruined Dunluce Castle in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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Taken in Temple Bar, Dublin.
Temple Bar is a series of streets on the south bank of the River Liffey. It is promoted for tourism as Dublin's cultural quarter and has a lively nightlife.
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We were on our way to Iona, the Holy Island. But we flew into Glasgow, the home city of my wife's paternal line - Glasgow in Lanark County, Scotland.
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Trinity College, Dublin, IrelandThis beautiful, bronze, globe-shaped Sphere Within Sphere by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro is on the campus grounds of Trinity College, Dublin.
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I love the pomp and circumstance, the stern face, the horse that looms above. Patient, waiting, guarding - but, O so much potential. Frightening that.
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So, perhaps really just trying to break the ice, I said: “Well, I see that your church sanctuary could seat about 300 people – but somehow you have managed to ‘grow’ it down to 30.
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When the Apostle Paul came with his colleagues into Ephesus, they came in 'hot.' In short, he caused a riot. He told and showed a Gospel that was powerful and true - and lasting.
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Even one fisherman can catch many fish . . .
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The god Nike, in Ephesus.
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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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