life itself is grace

with my love for polaroid shots, i was very disappointed to find out they were discontinuing the film (nostalgic blog post here). so when grace told me about an application called "poladroid" that allows you to upload your digital photos and transform them into polaroid-like images, i was nothing short of ecstatic. after seeing the photos she posted on her blog, i was inspired to upload some of my own images.

i've wasted most of my lazy sunday afternoon going through photos on my computer and "poladroid-ing" them. here are a few favorites:







i felt like i took a nice little jaunt down memory lane as i looked through photos on my computer, laughing out loud as i recalled some of the stories attached with the images. there's something about the look and feel of a polaroid shot that, for me, captures a moment in a wonderfully appropriate way. faded as if washed in a bit of time, the edges slightly fuzzy as if you are conjuring the image straight from the vault of your memory.

recently, i've been reading frederick buechner's listening to your life as part of my daily meditations. this quote, from which the book obtains its name, has stayed with me the past couple of weeks, stirring itself to the forefront of my mind particularly at moments of the mundane:

"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace." - Buechner

life itself is grace. what a beautiful truth.


cups of coffee: 2 + 1 ginger milk tea

mood: soaking it in