Pictures- I love them. I take them. I put them on my wall on canvas. I send them to people in the mail. I copy them. I have them on my phone. Pictures are just special. It’s not so much the picture but what I represents. I have an album on my phone that says friends. In that album are pictures of people. In our culture today we have what we call , “selfie’s”. That’s when you take a picture or yourself and often it’s because you want a picture or two people together and you don’t have anyone else to take the picture. There is something about a picture together with a friend that is special. We were somewhere one day, okay we were getting a pedicure and it wasn’t Jim as a part of the “we” and a family came over and asked if we would take their picture. They wanted to remember the moment they did something special together. I was glad to oblige. I had asked many people to do that for me.
What is there about a picture? It’s a reminder. It brings back memories. It’s a point in time that is etched in the heart. I wonder if Jesus and the disciples would have done a selfie, what those pictures would have looked like. Peter probably making a face, John close to Jesus, Andrew laying across the front on the group, Philip standing tall in the back and Thomas seemingly never looking at the camera at the right time. Pictures reveal a bit about ourselves. Sometimes we are okay with it and other times we beg people not to show that picture to anyone. Life won’t change- we will just discover other ways to do selfie’s. And as we look back at the picture we have taken we remember. Make sure you live life that’s worthy of the selfie’s that find their way to your camera. And when people look at it , let them have memories of the sweetest kind. And if you could take a selfie with Jesus where would it be? Curious minds want to know.
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