God's gifts

 It is unfortunate that for someone like me--whose earliest memories include reading, hearing, memorizing Scripture--it is too easy for familiarity with the Bible to mean that the words lose their impact. Eugene Peterson's idiomatic translation The Message has helped me recover the impact that God intended and that I desperately need.

One good example is the "fruit of the Spirit" verses (Galatians 5:22-23), below with the English Standard Version (ESV) for comparison: 

Our Moldovan friend Dan Popa takes photos that often stir our longing to be with him and share in what he captures in his art.

The photo above is an example, from Cricova, the town where Dan lives just outside the capital city of Chisinau.