old skin / new hope

Lizard Picture - Animal Wallpaper - National Geographic Photo of the Day

Photograph by Michael Walker, My Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos

Spring is busting out all over southeast Texas. New leaves, flower buds, and a green anole busting out of its old skin and starting over. Shot on February 26, 2012.

Signposts of Hope

"With Easter, God's new creation is launched upon a surprised world, pointing ahead to the renewal, the redemption, the rebirth of the entire creation.... every act of love, every deed done in Christ and by the Spirit, every work of true creativity -- doing justice, making peace, healing families, resisting temptation, seeking and winning true freedom -- is an earthly event in a long history of things that implement Jesus's own resurrection and anticipate the final new creation and act as signposts of hope."

-- N.T. Wright, Surprised By Hope