BLOOD SOAKED SNOW I watch as the snowflakes drift lazily on a whisper of airdown onto the hard, unforgiving earth.It lands softly covering the dirt, decay, filth,filling cracks, crevices, corners and ditches.The water seeping through the thirsty dry deteriorationof cracked parched lips...

© Tee-Tee Barnes Photos 2014 BREATHING GOD © Tee-Tee Barnes Photos 2014   Inhale JESUS ExhaleNAME ABOVE ALL NAMES InhaleEMMANUEL ExhaleGOD WITH US InhaleMY COMFORT ExhalePEACE InhaleMY SHELTER ExhaleTRUST I lay on the couch trying to catch a few winks before taking my daughter to the...

DEAR FRIEND: I know you are broken and I know you are just breathingbarelyI know you are feelingalone and no one cares at all. I know you’ve crieda thousand and more timesI know you believe youcannot go on.I knowbecause I’ve been there. I’ve been brokenI’ve been on my last breathI’ve been...

     January is named after Janus (Ianuarius), the god of the doorway; the name has its beginnings in Roman mythology, coming from the Latin word for door (ianua) – January is the door to the year.  I love that! The door of the year! It had never really occurred to me...

ALL IS WELL All is well, all is wellGod has blessed beyond compareThough trials came throughout the yearHe’s been faithful to stay near. I don’t know what the future holdsBut knowing whom holds it makes it clearThat all will be well and good and dear. Through good and bad, hard or sad,He’s with...

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? … Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown...

  © Tee’s Photography, 2013  An Exceptional ThanksgivingWhen it rains it pours in threes or morewords of hate roll off our tongueone, by one, by one. Joy once etched across miles of wrinklesbecome thoughts of rage in broken piecesshattered, scattered, hardened heart. Waiting for...

Because some days you feel like no one cares. Some days you feel God’s not even there. Every day is worse than the day before. You can’t stand what you see when you walk in the door. Each thought you think is negative. Dreams you dream are dark instead of brave. And Thanksgiving...

 Rejoice always,  pray without ceasing,  in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18    BECOMING THANKFUL As a child I listened endlessly to Evie Tornquist sing on her album, “A Little Song of Joy for My...