{"id":9144,"date":"2013-10-22T15:26:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2013-10-22T15:26:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:26:32","slug":"obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=9144","title":{"rendered":"Obsession….."},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the last 43 years, as a photographer, I have been obsessed with lenses!! \u00a0There, I said it, admitted it, and owned up to it!!!! \u00a0Nothing in photography has consumed as much of my time as trying to determine if the lenses I had, or the ones I wanted to buy, were sharp enough, distortion free enough, or color correct enough to allow me to make the images I hoped to make. \u00a0Last night I said good night to Sherelene and let her go on to bed while I sat on the couch and read about, you guessed it, lenses!!!!!<\/p>\n

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I discovered something very important, and it won’t affect my photography much one way or the other, I’m obsessing about the wrong things! \u00a0I came smack up against the realization that I don’t obsess as much about my relationship with God as my lenses…… \u00a0Bummer, what an awful thing to come face to face with. \u00a0I do love my Lord, and I read the Bible, and pray, and call on Him every day. I try to serve Him, and adhere to what I believe He is revealing to me. \u00a0But I get obsessed with a small metal tube filled with glass!!??<\/p>\n

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It is a bad habit, one that the enemy helps us cultivate, to find anything that will take us away from considering what is most important in life, our relationship with Him! \u00a0I know how much He has given to me, how fortunate I am to be forgiven, to have a wonderful family, great friends, and a profession I really enjoy, but I need to not let anything supplant my worship and attention to my time with Him!!!!!<\/p>\n

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I am committing to seek release from such obsessions!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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