Comments on Growing Is Beautiful: When You Want To See Him All Year Long

I would like to sign up for your calendar giveaway...

2011-12-20T09:51:05.188-08:00

I would like to sign up for your calendar giveaway. Your pictures are a beautiful reminder of our God's creativity and love for us. Thanks.

We have your handy work strategically displayed in...

2011-12-20T08:44:04.316-08:00

We have your handy work strategically displayed in our kitchen so it's one of the first things we see everyday...could certainly use more Courtney points to God work. ;)

I want in on the drawing! =) They're beautiful...

2011-12-20T02:24:32.593-08:00

I want in on the drawing! =) They're beautiful, Courtney!

Enter me in!!! I see God in nature... and his bea...

2011-12-19T22:10:55.247-08:00

Enter me in!!! I see God in nature... and his beauty in the photos you take!!

This is so unbelievably beautiful. THANK YOU. Wow...

2011-12-19T21:05:49.200-08:00

This is so unbelievably beautiful.

THANK YOU. Wow... :)

ME!! i'd love to win a calendar!!! oh my good...

2011-12-19T20:07:24.515-08:00

ME!! i'd love to win a calendar!!! oh my goodness, courtney!! these are *beautiful* - you have such a gift...with words, with photography - each one enhanced by your heart for Him.

i love you, dear friend.

What a marvelous gift these images are! Thank you ...

2011-12-15T09:21:15.525-08:00

What a marvelous gift these images are! Thank you for generously sharing them (and your thoughts) here and going above and beyond to give away what are surely stunning calendars.

My heart and prayers go out to you in the woundedness, but it has blessed me to journey with you this last bit of the way.

Most blessed, happy, joy-filled birthday to you, dear one. May the decade ahead be one of healing and glad-making (Ps. 90:14-15).

(You are almost exactly a decade behind me. I'll be 40 in January, if the Lord doesn't come back first.)

hi Courtney, wonderful pictures! you've got ...

2011-12-15T02:48:06.009-08:00

hi Courtney,

wonderful pictures! you've got such a range of beautiful colors--from the delicate green of the may magnolia cocoons, and pale pink of the september dogwood leaves, to the rich red of the august dahlias, and burnt orange of the november nyssa selvatica leaves. & you capture, not just the colors, but also the textures: i can almost feel the "furry" bit of the magnolia cocoon.

i also found the accompanying text deeply encouraging. when things are hard, it is such a temptation to more or less consciously anesthetize oneself--to "snap shut to grace" (as Ann V. puts it) and turn away from hope. i'm accordingly so thankful that, in spite of all the "hard days and dark nights", and "wounding and wondering", you are so *alive*, and that our Lord is blessing you with healing and mending.

regarding your question about where I see God most: perhaps it's wherever (in church, in a prayer group, working together at a soup kitchen, in the blogosphere) there's a tangible sense of God drawing us all nearer to Him in love.

last but by no means least, **HAPPY BIRTHDAY**! may it be filled to the brim with joy...

--chris