Like straw...

"I've seen things that make all of my writings seem like straw." - Aquinas

• The birth of my daughters
• A family at the hospital moments after the death of a loved one
• Giant's Causeway
• Homeless people on park benches
• India
• The little blue flower with a perfectly shaped star in the center
• A girl pinned down by a car that has just flipped over, hurling her out the back window
• A man being baptised in church
• A man having a heart-attack during a service in that same church
• A baby that has stopped breathing
• A baby crawling
• Garrett's body in a casket
• The first nearly unintelligible "I love you's" from my daughters
• My wife on our wedding day
• A Hindu woman converting to Christianity
• My little girls dancing
• Conversation with my beautiful wife
• A divided Northern Ireland
• A migrant worker with dwarfism passed off from church to church until I sat across from him, both willing and unwilling to help at the same time
• Reading Psalms to a dying man
• Wind so strong that it held up a falling man
• The aftermath of my posessions that were destroyed in a flood
• Breathing, blinking, heart-beating, tasting, feeling, touching, hearing...