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Today I’m going to let Wilson go, and be at peace with his Heavenly Father. \u00a0Today it’s time to go one with our lives! \u00a0That is what he would want, for sure. \u00a0So I need a plan, well I already had a plan, but I thought, with your permission, I might share it?!<\/p>\n
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1. \u00a0Get ready for battle!<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0Face it, we are in a \u00a0spiritual battle and we must get prepared. \u00a0It’s time<\/strong><\/span> to pray, read the word and start remembering to share His love. \u00a0We can’t do any of this in our own strength, so it is time<\/strong><\/span> to ask for His.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. \u00a0Spend more “time” with family & friends God has blessed me with.<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0We 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. \u00a0Nothing’s more important than quality time with family and friends. \u00a0When 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<\/strong><\/span> or two to see Wilson. See where this is going? \u00a0When \u00a0you spend some time<\/strong><\/span> 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!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. \u00a0 If you’re really serious about your photogprahy, get cranking! \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>It’s time<\/strong><\/span> folks. The plan should be to look at your work with a critical eye. \u00a0What needs work? \u00a0Where can you shore up your technique, your vision, your approach. \u00a0Spend some time looking at great work and ask yourself why it appeals to you. \u00a0What can you learn from it. \u00a0Develop your own style by being yourself. \u00a0Many 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! \u00a0For me, it’s worked out fine!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4. \u00a0Learn how to laugh at yourself.<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0It’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. \u00a0But 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?! \u00a0I sure do, and I’ve leaned it is a lot of fun laughing at myself! \u00a0Might as well, everyone else is! After all, It’s Time!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I’m going to let Wilson go, and be at peace with his Heavenly Father. \u00a0Today it’s time to go one with our lives! \u00a0That is what he would want, for sure. \u00a0So I need a plan, well I already had a plan, but I thought, with your permission, I might share it?! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16103"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16137,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16103\/revisions\/16137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}