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Portland, Oregon
I never went to the mall to have my picture taken in a photo booth with a girl friend. Nor did a group of my friends pack a booth to have our faces immortalized forever, but I'm sure that many of you reading this blog spent more than your fair share of time in a photo booth similar to this one.
Photographs have a way of doing something that nothing else can do. Photos stop time. If you dig through your dresser drawers and find a row of pics from a photo booth they capture what you looked like on a specific day, at a specific time.
When you look at pictures from the past do you think of them as representing the good old days?
"I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us." Philippians 3:14 New Living Translation
It is easier to look to the past and think of them in a better light than they really were. It is more difficult to look to the future and realize that the best days are ahead.
For many of us the future is uncertain. For others of us the future is quite certain and we are afraid of that certainty of aches and pains, of brokenness and heartache, of death and dying.
However, no matter what we face this side of the grave, the best days are ahead. These best days have been guaranteed through Jesus. We have a certain future, even if we can't see it or even imagine it. This future is ours in Christ.
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Photographs have a way of doing something that nothing else can do. Photos stop time. If you dig through your dresser drawers and find a row of pics from a photo booth they capture what you looked like on a specific day, at a specific time.
When you look at pictures from the past do you think of them as representing the good old days?
"I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us." Philippians 3:14 New Living Translation
It is easier to look to the past and think of them in a better light than they really were. It is more difficult to look to the future and realize that the best days are ahead.
For many of us the future is uncertain. For others of us the future is quite certain and we are afraid of that certainty of aches and pains, of brokenness and heartache, of death and dying.
However, no matter what we face this side of the grave, the best days are ahead. These best days have been guaranteed through Jesus. We have a certain future, even if we can't see it or even imagine it. This future is ours in Christ.
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2013 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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