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Tincup Cemetery, Colorado
Recently, I made my first trip to Tincup (and hopefully not my last). It's not necessarily an easy trip from Colorado Springs. There are no paved roads that lead to Tincup. There are few people who live here, especially in the winter. Yet, at one time it was a busy mining community. Evidence of how many people lived here are the number of headstones in the cemetery.
What makes the Tincup cemetery unique are its four knolls: the Protestant Knoll, the Catholic Knoll, the Jewish Knoll, and Boot Hill where the non-religious were buried.
In the midst of these four knolls runs this little stream. I can't help but see in this small creek a picture of who Jesus is.
"Jesus replied, 'Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.'" John 4:13-14 New Living Translation
Both Christians and non-Christians are buried at the Tincup cemetery. There were those who drank deeply of the life Jesus gave them and there were those who rejected this living water. Both died, but not all are dead. Those who drank of Christ enjoy life even in death.
Death is painful. I'm sure that many tears were absorbed by the soil of these graves. Some of you have cried these same tears.
Jesus was not a stranger to death. He was buried in his grave, a grave that felt the tears of those who loved him. However, he is alive and has promised eternal life to all who hold on to him by faith.
Like that water that continually runs through this cemetery, the love of Christ continues to run through the lives of those who have died in Christ.
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What makes the Tincup cemetery unique are its four knolls: the Protestant Knoll, the Catholic Knoll, the Jewish Knoll, and Boot Hill where the non-religious were buried.
In the midst of these four knolls runs this little stream. I can't help but see in this small creek a picture of who Jesus is.
"Jesus replied, 'Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.'" John 4:13-14 New Living Translation
Both Christians and non-Christians are buried at the Tincup cemetery. There were those who drank deeply of the life Jesus gave them and there were those who rejected this living water. Both died, but not all are dead. Those who drank of Christ enjoy life even in death.
Death is painful. I'm sure that many tears were absorbed by the soil of these graves. Some of you have cried these same tears.
Jesus was not a stranger to death. He was buried in his grave, a grave that felt the tears of those who loved him. However, he is alive and has promised eternal life to all who hold on to him by faith.
Like that water that continually runs through this cemetery, the love of Christ continues to run through the lives of those who have died 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 2013-2014 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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