May my praises, fill the temple……..

Ever want to send a message to God?  How can you get your thoughts, requests, and praises into His mailbox?  Start with praising Him!  Every prayer, even those when we are in deep despair should start with praise.  Praise is  the act of acknowledging that God is who He is!  The all powerful, omniscient, omnipotent God of the Universes!  The beginning of conversation with God is recognizing who He really is!  Praising Him is admitting that we owe everything to Him, that without Him there is nothing.  This opens the door to true conversation with our Heavenly Father! This morning I am filled with thankfulness, and this is my prayer to Him today;

Father thank you for your precious Son, Jesus, for His sacrifice for me, for my forgiveness for which I am fully undeserving, but so thankful to receive.

Father thank you that I am home with Sherelene, enjoying her company and our wonderful fellowship, friendship and the love we share.  Once again I don’t deserve such a wonderful bride, but you miraculously placed her in my life!  She has been my rock on earth!

Father thank you for the incredible family you have blessed me with, Scott and Diane, Hannah and Ben, Catherine and Clint, Cassidy and Cade, and Wes and Rhonda, Elijah and Abigail.  For my brother Homer, and for Sherlene’s wonderful family.

Thanks you for the great people I get to work with in the field and call my friends, Jim Begley, Jack Graham, John Barrett, Chuck Barnes, Chuck Summers, and I will stop there because as you know Father the list is almost endless!  You’ve richly blessed me to let me be a part of these people’s lives and let them be in mine.

Father thank you for the countless friends that you’ve brought into my life through photography, Jim and Sue, Susan, Lynn, Ted, Miles, Don, Stan, Carl, David and Keri, Kent and Raymond, Ron, and John Walrath, Joshua and Rodney, Scott, Matt, RC, Adam, Joe,  and Richard, and the hundreds and thousands of others that have touched my life!

Thank you for the thousands of fantastic people I’ve gotten to meet, share with, and shoot with in the field across America and the world!

Thank you for the sheer joy I still have when I hold a camera in my hands and see this fantastic world you have made, and have the chance to try  and capture some of  it!

Father, I raise up your Holy Name, I know all I have is because of you……..

Thank you Father.      Amen

Have a blessed weekend,

the pilgrim

Photo Note:  Shot at Nelson Ghost Town, the site of a workshop next November with Jack Graham and I.  Fuji X-Pro 1 and 55-200 lens