Simple and Honest Places

Winding around the roads of Lynchburg this summer looking for bookstores and restaurants brought me across the Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church.  The character it projected with its stone work, bell tower and arch ways worn rustic doors captured my attention.  It begged to be photographed.  So I stopped, pulled out the camera and enjoyed some leisurely time trying to portray its essence.      

This place did justice to the idea that, “God approaches us in manifold ways, not the least of which is His whisper to us in beauty….God reveals great and profound spiritual realities in the form of humble and simple corporeal things.”

Once inside I took time to enjoy the still quietness of the sanctuary.  Without interruption it was the perfect place to pull the Bible out and listen for the voice of my Shepherd.  It was the perfect place as well “be still and know that I am God.”

And it did justice to the idea that there is “a place of worship and learning and community formation: simple and honest – a piece of art for worshipping God in the ‘beauty of holiness’.”