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Lydia Bailey
Lydia Bailey is an Episcopal deacon working at Ohio’s largest shelter, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry Men’s Emergency Homeless Shelter in Cleveland.
The radiance when God comes close
I watched the full moon cover mundane scenes with its glow. Isn't this what Advent is about?
Images of dignity
I grew up around art and a few artists. I looked to people who had a reverence for the world at large. A natural contemplative awareness developed, as in many children before it is covered over. Call it awe, which Abraham Heschel describes as an “intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.”
No wonder I became both a photographer and an Episcopal deacon.
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