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Perspectives Again

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“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk100_2280

Church window?

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Nope a wall in a coffee shop!

This post was created for Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective. It’s the second time this week I have been prompted to think about how different conclusions can be reached about the same subject simply by the position I find myself standing in.

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/photo-challenge-perspective/

My Greatest Treasure

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This week’s photo challenge from DP is : Treasure.

Take a gander at the treasure trove they have amassed over at

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/photo-challenge-treasure/

 

As soon as I read the post I knew what picture I was digging for!

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It’s not the country. It’s not the building. It’s not even the memory that was built on this day. It’s the message that forever changed my life that is  plastered to the top of Amsterdam’s YWAM building. Jesus loves me. With that truth I have discovered you really can live on love!

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. MA 6:19-21 NIV

Weekly Photo Challenge: Do I Really See Me?

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This week’s photo challenge from the Daily Post is:  SELFIE.

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This shot was snapped in the lavatory of the YWAM building in Amsterdam! I know a little strange…right? But I think all pictures with me in it are a little strange any way you slice it. I think most of us feel that way when it gets right down to it. I find myself wondering  if the reason  it’s hard to look at ourselves is because it’s easy to deceive ourselves about who we are until we look into our own eyes.  Soren Keikegard said,

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.” 
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

I think I may start taking more selfies just to practice seeing the real me.

Check out more selfies at

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/weekly-photo-challenge-selfie/

 

Memories Of Who I Am

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This week’s photo challenge from the Daily Post is the word OBJECT. 

I honestly feel a little strange about the object I chose but let me explain…

LillieThis is the grave of my great-great grandfather, the first Joseph Elon Lillie. He was born in 1847 in Erving MA. I have visited it from time to time throughout the course of my life; But I took this picture at a time when I felt I was losing touch with who I really was…why I mattered. Standing beside my namesake’s  grave and remembering the Christian heritage that made up the tapestry of my life drew me back to the reality that I  was made for a purpose.

Take a gander at the significant objects of the Daily Post’s other contributors here:

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/photo-challenge-object/

http://pixeliciousimagery.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/weekly-photo-challenge-object/

http://apetcher.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/weekly-photo-challenge-object/#respond

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/01/31/weekly-photo-challenge-object/

http://windagainstcurrent.com/2014/01/31/weekly-photo-challenge-object/

Life’s Little Contradictions

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This week’s challenge from the daily post is JUXTAPOSITION. 

Life is a constant tension don’t you think? Maybe it comes from the fall of man in the beginning; But maybe it is just the way God made things to work. Perhaps the constant pulling of opposites upon one another in the world is what creates balance.

Could it be that eternity pulls on time to create sabbath?

Maybe Man’s free will poses side by side with the sovereignty of God to manifest true consecration.

Perhaps the everyday pushes up against the outlandish to give us diversity.

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Maybe the serious connects to the silly to grant us the gift of laughter.

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And it just might be that rest and rush are often found side by side to remind us that life’s choices always lie before us. It is our duty to embrace and rule them rather than be ruled by them; So today take a moment to stop your running. Set aside the stress and just listen for a bit to life’s music!

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to see more juxtapositions go to

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/photo-challenge-juxtaposition/

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

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This week’s photo challenge from the Daily Post is “INSIDE”. I am supposed to reveal the inside of something or show pictorially what I see on the inside! To see more “Inside” posts go to http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/photo-challenge-inside/

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer

 

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. Sophia Loren

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung