My New Desktop Wallpaper

I get bored with my computer desktop very quickly.  I try to find things I enjoy, things that are beautiful and things that are typically uncluttered.  I don’t usually like real photos for some reason, I prefer something a little more abstract and colorful I guess. 

So here’s my latest desktop wallpaper.  I usually like to have the same wallpaper on my work computer and home computer – a little anal maybe, but I like the consistency. 

Practically speaking it’s a little busier then I tend to go for, but it doesn’t seem to take away space on my desktop.  I can still see my dock and all the icons I need.  I like space.  I like order.  I hate clutter on my desktop – it stresses me out.  I hate looking at someone’s desktop and seeing a hundred shortcuts.  Picking a desktop wallpaper takes forever for me.  I tend to obsess about it. 

Artistically the picture is very beautiful.  First, I love the colors.  Second I love the images, to me they capture what life is all about.  The beauty, simplicity and innocence childhood and the craziness and complexity of life merged into one image, one story.  It’s a little intimidating.  You feel like you’re the little boy surround by the huge world sometimes.  But you’re also reminded to look at the world through those child like eyes…reminded to not lose that innocence, that sense of awe and wonder.  That sense of adventure and endless possibility.  You’re challenged not to see the ugliness, the danger.  Not to feel the fear or anxiety that seems to be pressing in around you.

Way too much for a wallpaper I know.  That’s why it takes forever for me to pick them and I change them pretty quickly.

If you want to check this or others like it out, here’s where I found it.

Thoughts on Easter…

This Easter was good. I’m not implying that past Easter’s were bad per se, just that this Easter was once again meaningful in a good way. And I imagine every Easter is a little different, things strike you differently each year depending on where you’re at in life.

This year one of the messages of Easter that seem to capture my attention was suffering. We don’t like to suffer. We don’t want to admit that suffering is a big part our lives, a big part of the world in which we live. And we certainly don’t want to believe that as Christians we are called to embrace suffering. But I was thinking about it… Thinking about my suffering, how it doesn’t compare to the suffering of countless others around the world, though it’s still suffering to me. And yet at Easter, Jesus entered into the world’s suffering. He didn’t have to, but he chose to. That’s the kind of God I would want to serve. One that knows me, because he knows my suffering, because he’s felt the weight of it, bore the pain of it. Been crushed by it. And yet he did not fear it – did not complain about it – did not shrink back from it – did not strike out from it.

The other thought on my mind was resurrection. I need the resurrection power, the resurrection life of God to breath life into many areas of my life. There are parts of me that are dead. There are parts of me where Old Creation is ruling. There are parts of me where the Darkness rules. I need God to speak to me like Lazarus. I need to live as a New Creation, I need the light of God to overcome the situations where the Darkness seems to be in charge.

The story of Easter is simple. Love wins. God wins. The Darkness tried it’s best, but could not overcome, could not comprehend the Light. New Creation has begun and life is our hope – our promise.

Walking into work this morning it’s easy to slip back into the Old Creation, but I’m trying not to forgot. Trying not to wait another year to think about Easter and what it means every day.