Before leaving on the trip I\u2019m currently on, was around home for the better part of a couple of weeks. One day, over a weekend, driving back from the lake I saw this roadside scene above.
\nI was taken by the portrait of Jesus on the left. After delivering family at home, I drove the couple of mile back to shoot this image. When I photograph someone else\u2019s art I ask their permission.
\nGeorge the artist (in the image to the lower right) was happy to let me shoot some images, mostly because I was using my little P300 and it probably didn\u2019t seem very harmful to have this rank amateur with his little point and shoot making images. We had a nice conversation and I bought a small board sign for my grandson. I left having gotten the images I wanted and more importantly some nice fellowship with a fellow pilgrim moving through the world.<\/p>\n
So it goes in life. You can rush
\nthrough, very busy, very focused
\nand missing a lot of the subtle
\njoys that lie along the path. I
\nam not suggesting my way is the
\nonly way, or even the best way
\nbut, it\u2019s my way, and it works for
\nme. I also am very concerned
\nabout sharing God\u2019s love and
\nyou can\u2019t do that rushing by
\nholding to an impossible
\nschedule. Take a deep breath
\nand enjoy the remarkable
\nexperiences and images that
\nare all around you. For this
\nweek and the next few weeks
\nI will be in places where very
\nextraordinary things to photo-
\ngraph will present themselves.
\nWhat I won\u2019t do is be too busy
\nto take a moment and meet
\nthe great people along the way.
\nThey are God\u2019s gift to us, we can
\nlearn much from those that we
\ntake the time to get to know.<\/p>\n
Thanks George for giving me a little of your time, and sharing your talent with me. I think God was smiling on both of us. <\/p>\n
Slow down and smell God\u2019s incredible roses, His people……..<\/p>\n
Blessings,<\/p>\n
the pilgrim<\/p>\n
I loved this portrait of George with a very gentle application of Glamour Glow.<\/p>\n
Scenes from The International Symposium On Aviation Photography in San Diego.<\/p>\n
*Photo Note: All images with the Nikon Coolpix P300.
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\nFLASH…… Prayer request. You guys have proven that you\u2019re real prayer warriors. I had lunch with a friend today and he is facing some challenges in his life. That is another way of saying God is shaking things up and will make them even better for him. He is facing his challenges with the courage and confidence that God is in control. I would like the ask that you join me in asking God for three things for my friend, You can refer to Bill\u2019s friend in your prayers, God knows who he is.
\nPlease pray that he will (1) Be encouraged to keep trusting that God is in control. (2) That God will bless him and meet all his needs, and (3) lastly that he will feel the indescribable peace of knowing that God\u2019s plan is the best plan for His life, that God loves him more than he could ever know, and that he can truly trust God with his life…… My promise to you is that I will share the victory that is coming for him, when he shares that with me. This can be a wonderful exercise in building all of our faith as we see how good God is to all of us.<\/p>\n
Thank you in advance for helping me seek His answers for my friend.<\/p>\n
the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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