Where is your treasure?
Where is your treasure? What is your treasure? When I found the image from New England of an old fashioned trunk, it made me think of what belongings might have once been stored in it? These old handmade trunks were expensive in their day, and were often reserved for keeping peoples’s most priced possessions! Having just been in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, I’ve come home as I often do, with a new appreciation for living where I do! These Islands are beautiful and the clear blue water, and rain forest are very interesting, but these places are a lot more like a third world country than where we live. All it takes is a trip into a grocery store and you will see what the standard of living is in another country. I had a lot of time to think about my blessings while out of the lower 48 states, and I think from time to time it is a great exercise to name them, so with your permission I would like to share the list I’ve come up with;
What I am thankful for today:
1. A loving God that is my Heavenly Father and never, ever looses track of me, and is always watching over me and my family, and my friends. I’m so thankful for my salvation, made possible by Jesus sacrificial love on the cross!
2. A fantastic wife, who is also my best friend, the love of my life, and person I respect, trust, and look up to, and the greatest earthly gift God has bestowed on me!
3. A wonderful loving family! Scott, Diane, Hannah & Ben. Catherine, Clint, Cassidy, and Cade, Wesley, Rhonda, Elijah, and Abigail. My brother Homer and his wife Terri, Sherlene’s sisters and brother, and so many other family members who all mean so much to me!
4. A bunch of great friends, (I will not embarrass myself by trying to make a list!!!) God has truly blessed my life with some great people I get to call my friends!!!
5. Health! I’m still on this side of the grass, and well enough to enjoy all His blessings, so you can’t ask for more than that!
6. A great love for photography and the fun of a lifetime of trying to learn more everyday and get better at the craft I enjoy so much!
7. A roof over my head, heat when it is cold, a comfortable place to live and work. A sanctuary from the storm!
8. A future to look forward to! I get excited when I think about running workshops with Jim Begley, Jack Graham, James Haverstock, Nick Coury, Snake, Chuck, and Ricky Skaggs, and all the fun we will have, and the nice people we will get to know! The coolest way to make a living and a life!
9. Peace and Joy which can only come from Him!
10. The honor of serving Him by loving others in His name and for His sake!
Your turn, make your own list of what you are thankful for!
Blessings,
the pilgrim
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One of the many things I am thankful for is a photographer role model who knows what should be first on the list and is bold enough to say so publicly. Thank you for your willingness to be used by Him for His glory.
When you owe Him as much as I do, it’s easy. I threw myself on the mercy of the court, and He forgave me, though I was worthy to have booh thrown at me, said I love you!
“Book!”
He said, “I love you!” Wow it’s late!
“I’m still on this side of the grass”, ah that cracks me up. We’ve never met Bill, but I was hoping you’d show at this years Southwestern Photojournalism Conference. It was my first time and I really enjoyed it. Maybe next year.
That is a great gathering of dear brothers and sisters, a God has used that group in a mighty way!
I missed being there!