Simple Moments

The Interesting Thing About Dialogue

Electrical workers install wire on utility poles silhouetted by the sunset in mid-west America. Photo: Connections – Copyright 2012 Frank J Casella – frankjcasella.pixels.com We often turn to Google for instant answers, comfort, and direction—as if it were a kind of oracle. But for Christians and Catholics, this instinct should prompt a sober distinction: Google supplies information; God is the…

Photo: Reciprocity – Copyright 2018 Frank J Casella – frankjcasella.pixels.com The beauty of nature gives freely from season to season. It’s a sign of God’s love in the world. Likewise, the law of reciprocity is a principle God instituted to bless us, that what we give will come back to us. But He’s more interested in the attitude of our hearts than the numbers on the check, so to speak.

Photo: Suburban Sidewalk at Dusk – Copyright 2016 Frank J Casella. Made in Homewood, Illinois with the Open Camera app on the Samsung A13 Phone. Processed with Ribbet. A quiet suburban street featuring a white picket fence and stop sign. Shadows stretch across the sidewalk as the sun sets behind the trees. Gaze at this just for a moment. In our fast paced world of convenience, its good to go for…

Photo: Branch Out – The golden hour morning sunlight, against the bright blue sky, illuminates the twisting branches of a tree – Color Nature Art Photograph Copyright 2017 Frank J Casella – frankjcasella.pixels.com One morning, golden-hour sunlight lit this tree’s twisting branches and drew my thoughts to family, friends, and the gatherings that bind them. Our lives are works in progress—each…

Where Is Your Faith – Landscape Photograph Copyright 2018 Frank J Casella – frankjcasella.pixels.com Having faith sometimes is like looking into the clouds and seeing nothing, and yet other times like seeing colors in the sky. We all know these seasons—times when faith feels distant, unreachable, even foolish. And times when it holds us up, when it answers a prayer we didn’t know we were…