Money often costs too much.
monos en theos…†…jim
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IMAGES OF SMALL THINGS FROM THE BIGGEST COUNTY IN TEXAS #751 – IF YOU ARE GOIN’ TO GROW, SOME DIRT GOT TO BE THROWN!
but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. “And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.” Mark 4:19-20
IMAGES OF SMALL THINGS FROM THE BIGGEST COUNTY IN TEXAS #697 – ON THE RIGHT PATH!
I have been making sports portraits around West Texas for the past 20+ years. It has been a wonderful blessing. We have coaches at some of the schools that we made their sports portrait when they were in jr high.
But, I have to admit to becoming a little tired of making portraits of kids holding every kind of: football, basketball,baseball,volleyball, softball or golf ball. Yesterday the first young lady out for track photos came bounding up excitedly showing off her new tattoo.
It was refreshing to see a girl with Jeremiah 29:11 imprinted on her shoulder. I was quickly reminded that I sometimes wander off my path and plan. I become bored with the way I look at things. She refreshed my vision and allowed me to see something different than just another student holding a piece of sports paraphernalia.
She understood Who planned her path and helped put me back on mine.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
en theos ††† jim
IMAGES OF SMALL – THINGS FROM THE BIGGEST COUNTY IN TEXAS #654 – STILL AWAITING THIS NEW HEART THING!
Ezekiel 36:26:
” I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh”.
stay cool while you wait ††† en theos ††† jim
IMAGES OF SMALL THINGS FROM THE BIGGEST COUNTY IN TEXAS #586 – I was so elated, at last a place to find the answers to all the questions about being a real man.
Ah, at last a place that might have the answers to the long embered questions I walk around with. Yes, it was on an off-placed road in a small New Mexico town, but I had this hope that I could wander in and find answers to all my wonder.
A real man! What is it, how to become it and had I at last arrived? Would I be applauded when I entered or be asked “man what took you so long to get here”
Would I at least find the things that make “a real man”. Would in instantly I find the knowledge to do man things: fix cars, discern wisdom from knowledge, to truly find when to hold’em and when to fold em?
Alas, the store was closed and the answers still lie in wait. Man up, you can get The answer in only one place and the door is always open, “Seek and ye shall find.”Matthew 7:7
Knock and the door will be opened. ††† en theos ††† jimwork
Images of small things from the biggest county in Texas #549 – Treasure, I have a treasure?
Oh Paul, just because you had a thorn in your side, did you also have to stick one in mine?
Our hearts are of the utmost importance to God. Depending on which version you look at, the bible mentions the word “heart” from 600-900 times. It is crucial to be aware of what we put in ours.
So, it drives me to ask, where is my treasure, and what does it say about me?
Seek your true treasure today. If it is not something you really treasure, don’t allow it in. ††† en theos ††† jim work
Photos on the journey #466
I have been thinking a lot about the choice we all have about the narrow door or the narrow gate.
Matthew has it as the gate: “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Matthew 7:13-14
Luke has it as the door (depending on which version of the bible you read, KJV has Luke defining it as a gate): “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.” Luke 13:24
Mark does not mention the gate or the door.
Any how, as Luke and Matthew tell you, be it the gate or the door, only a few seem to be able to either find it or get through it.
I’m still a looking, but those freeways while they are faster, the blue roads are so much more interesting…..either way, make sure you pay the toll!
God Spede ††† en theos ††† jlawrence
Shades of Gray - Denison TX 