Palmer Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Beware of the prickly thingies.
Here is some important advise: Don't kneel on a Prickly Pear Cactus. It takes days, even weeks for the prickly thingies to work themselves out of your skin. You ask how I know?
I read an article on going "low" to take pictures. So one evening I experimented at the Paint Mines near Calhan, Colorado. I set my tripod as low as it would go then knelt down to look through the viewfinder and OUCH!!! It was a painful trip home.
"Be careful not to do your good works in public in order to attract attention. If you do, your Father in heaven will not reward you." Matthew 6:1 God's Word to the Nations
OUCH!!! What good are "righteous thingies" if they can't be seen by others? Prickly Pear Cactus are beautiful when they are in bloom, but they can be quite painful if you embrace them. Embracing our efforts at getting right with God can be painful.
Instead of our own good deeds declaring us right with God, it is God who embraces us with the righteousness of Christ. And instead of kneeling in the prickly thingies we kneel in the embrace of Christ and the power of his love for us.
Believe me, the ride home is not nearly as painful when we kneel before Christ.
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2013Douglas P. Brauner. ARR
Here is some important advise: Don't kneel on a Prickly Pear Cactus. It takes days, even weeks for the prickly thingies to work themselves out of your skin. You ask how I know?
I read an article on going "low" to take pictures. So one evening I experimented at the Paint Mines near Calhan, Colorado. I set my tripod as low as it would go then knelt down to look through the viewfinder and OUCH!!! It was a painful trip home.
"Be careful not to do your good works in public in order to attract attention. If you do, your Father in heaven will not reward you." Matthew 6:1 God's Word to the Nations
OUCH!!! What good are "righteous thingies" if they can't be seen by others? Prickly Pear Cactus are beautiful when they are in bloom, but they can be quite painful if you embrace them. Embracing our efforts at getting right with God can be painful.
Instead of our own good deeds declaring us right with God, it is God who embraces us with the righteousness of Christ. And instead of kneeling in the prickly thingies we kneel in the embrace of Christ and the power of his love for us.
Believe me, the ride home is not nearly as painful when we kneel before Christ.
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
(Click on picture to enlarge.)
Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2013
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