My sister got me this Michael Podesta print for a graduation gift:
I love this Bible verse, and I loved it before it became so popular. I first heard it at a worship service at a gathering of Lutheran college students, back in the days when we called campus ministry Lutheran Student Movement (LSM). My college boyfriend loved it along with me, and we used it as one of our wedding verses.
I put the print on our fireplace mantel, where it sits beside the TV, the extra lightbulbs, and the fresh batteries. It seems like some sort of visual poem. Or maybe it just speaks to a lack of storage solutions.
The longer view also presents a visual poem, or maybe just a visual record. I am struck by the Podesta print on the middle shelf, the print that I got as a graduation present--graduation from undergraduate school, back in 1987. The quote is by Emerson: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
I haven't been in full trail blazing mode since then, but I have been on less-traveled paths, and I feel mostly fortunate.
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