It’s About Time………………

Today I’m going to let Wilson go, and be at peace with his Heavenly Father.  Today it’s time to go one with our lives!  That is what he would want, for sure.  So I need a plan, well I already had a plan, but I thought, with your permission, I might share it?!

1.  Get ready for battle!   Face it, we are in a  spiritual battle and we must get prepared.  It’s time to pray, read the word and start remembering to share His love.  We can’t do any of this in our own strength, so it is time to ask for His.

2.  Spend more “time” with family & friends God has blessed me with.  We are all busy, it’s just the way our lives are, but I know any chance I get to fellowship with family & friends that I pass up will come back to bite me.  Nothing’s more important than quality time with family and friends.  When I lost my father I wished I had gone back to Harlan more often to be with him, same with my mother, and yes, I could’ve run down to Townsend a time or two to see Wilson. See where this is going?  When  you spend some time thinking about it you realize what you’ve always known, the people in our lives are the most important things other than our relationship with our Lord. Don’t wait, start today reaching out to those you care about, make 2016 the year you reconnect with what matters most!

3.   If you’re really serious about your photogprahy, get cranking!  It’s time folks. The plan should be to look at your work with a critical eye.  What needs work?  Where can you shore up your technique, your vision, your approach.  Spend some time looking at great work and ask yourself why it appeals to you.  What can you learn from it.  Develop your own style by being yourself.  Many years ago I wanted to be John Shaw, then it dawned on me, there already was a John Shaw, that place was already taken, I had to be myself, the best myself I could be, but myself all the same!  For me, it’s worked out fine!

4.  Learn how to laugh at yourself.  It’s way to easy to take ourselves to too seriously. I’m not saying you shouldn’t have respect for yourself, you should, or that you shouldn’t feel you’re important, God has already proven just how important you are.  But life must have levity. Learn to laugh when you do stupid stuff, come on, you’re really not saying you don’t do stupid stuff are you?!  I sure do, and I’ve leaned it is a lot of fun laughing at myself!  Might as well, everyone else is! After all, It’s Time!

Blessings,

the pilgrim