Shakespeare once famously asked through the voice of a star-crossed, love-smitten teen, “What’s in a name?”

Ask the same of my little blog experiment.

When I started blogging in August 2005, I named the blog “Becoming.” The title came from Jeremiah 29:11 in a roundabout sort of way. God knows the plans he has for me. The blog was a place to chronicle my journey to becoming what he planned, even though I really am not sure what that might be.

Then, I switched to WordPress.com in February 2007. With the change in platform came a change in the name. Not that I had become what God intends — that’s a journey that won’t be completed this side of heaven — but that I had found a new focus in how I live out that journey. This time it came from the words of Micah 6:8, which gave way to the mysterious moniker of 33:6:8 (thirty-third book, sixth chapter, eighth verse).

Recently, I have started to think that the title doesn’t accurately reflect what the blog is about — if I can even make the claim that this blog is about anything. It’s still about a journey into becoming what God intends me to be. It’s still a blog about learning to love mercy, act justly and walk humbly with God. But, it has also become a blog about books and music and photography and road trips and youth ministry and life in my little corner of the world.

Even among all those varied topics there is a common element — finding God in the fabric of everyday life.

And so, a new name … everyday images.

It’s a name with two shades of meaning.

First, starting tomorrow, if you click on the link in the sidebar (or the tab at the top of the page), you will be taken to a photoblog. These pages feature my photography (unless otherwise noted) coupled with a passage of Scripture and a thought or two. The vision for this section of the blog grew out of the realization that Scripture uses many, many metaphors and Christ himself referred to elements in the world around him to illustrate spiritual topics.

everyday images is also an apt description of who we are. Genesis tells us that we are created in the image of God. Those who follow Christ become the image of Christ to the world. Unfortunately, we’ve also shattered the image. We don’t reflect him perfectly. In this sense, the main part of the blog remains what it has always been — one Christ-following, book-reading, music-loving, cycling volunteer youth worker who is doing her best to reflect Christ to the world through all the cracks and broken pieces of life.