Winter skies catch my eyes....

but so far not my camera lens.  

Both the early morning drive to work and the drive home offer the most magnificent sky views!  Winter skies take me to a different place...a native, mysterious land of adventure and ruggedness.  A part of me lives in a place like that...while I'm going about my business in the shadow lands...

Oswald reminded me this morning that "The first "Follow Me" was nothing mysterious; it was an external following.  Jesus is now asking for an internal sacrifice and yielding."  I don't like to yield; I like to bulldoze through when I know I'm right.  Ug.  Ye ol' tongue control...not to mentions the mind and the heart...

Yield...such a simple little word.

Yield, according to Webster's Dictionary 1828 edition

YIELD, verb transitive

1. To produce, as land, stock or funds; to give in return for labor, or as profit. Lands yield not more than three per cent annually; houses yield four or five percent. Maiz on good land, yields two or three hundred fold.

2. To produce, in general. Most vegetable juices yield a salt.

3. To afford; to exhibit. The flowers in spring yield a beautiful sight.

4. To allow; to concede; to admit to be true; as, to yield the point in debate. We yield that there is a God.

5. To give, as claimed of right; as, to yield due honors; to yield due praise.

6. To permit; to grant.

Life is but air, that yields a passage to the whistling sword.

7. To emit; to give up. To yield the breath, is to expire.

8. To resign; to give up; sometimes with up or over; as, to yield up their own opinions. We yield the place to our superiors.

9. To surrender; sometimes with up; as, to yield a fortress to the enemy; or to yield up a fortress.

YIELD, verb intransitive

1. To give up the contest; to submit.

He saw the fainting Grecians yield

2. To comply with; as, I yielded to his request.

3. To give way; not to oppose. We readily yield to the current of opinion; we yield to customs and fashions.

4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence. They will yield to us in nothing.

Tell me in what more happy fields the thistle springs, to which the lily yields?