These are both in the French Quarter- the first is an iron gate somewhere around Toulouse, I think.  I forgot exactly where it was.  The second is a reflection of St. Louis Cathedral in a pool of water in Pirates Alley.
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Tonight I preached for the first time since February 2006, and it’s only one of a few opportunities since I left Mobile to come to seminary in 2004.  For someone who had gotten use to being heard on a regular basis, to preach tonight was an incredible blessing- one I didn’t take for granted.  Maybe [...]

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and the problem is this: we were bought with a kiss,
but the cheek still turned, even when it wasn’t hit.
and i don’t know what to do with a love like that
and i don’t know how to be a love like that
when all the love in the world is right here among us
and hatred too, [...]

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John, by contrast, takes us up the mountain, and says quietly: ‘Look—from here, on a clear day, you can see for ever.’ We beheld his glory, glory as of the Father’s only Son. John does not describe the transfiguration, as the other Gospels do; in a sense, John’s whole story is about the transfiguration. He [...]

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