I don't suppose 4:30 in the afternoon is time to be thinking about that, huh?
I have 3 things to talk about today, including my JOY assignment.
I came across this funny site yesterday!
That is the new blanket Santa brought to Shelby for Christmas.
She likes to snuggle up on it and has even chosen it, over sleeping in her bed several cold nights.
It obviously ranks 2nd though to her favorite place on the stairs!
When she lays there she can see out the windows next to the front door and out into the backyard through the living room windows which are directly behind her.
That is one ugly blanket...what was Santa thinking??
This is a tree in our backyard and the woodpecker who is moving in!!
I shot that with my telephoto lens set as far out as it would go.
This next image is one I composed for my JOY daily challenge.
The topic for the day: Where!
Well, when my husband woke me up at 4:30 this morning snoring incessantly I began to think through this assignment.
I went through so many ideas trying to figure out how to show in a photo where I "first met my loved one".
Some thoughts led me to the file folder which holds all my kids ultrasound pictures. But that didn't feel quite right. I mean...for me, I "met" my babies.. at least emotionally, when I first learned I was pregnant.
I tried some shots with the sweet ultrasound images and a little stuffed lamb, which 10 years ago used to play Jesus Loves Me every single night to soothe someone to sleep!!
In order to reach the lamb I had to move a tiny little pink bible.
All of this somehow led me to began to think about when I first met Christ.
I was blessed enough to be able to meet Christ as a child going to bible class.
It was just a normal part of my growing up life...we went to church, period.
I was baptized in my teen years and have never looked back!
I then went to a christian college and got some education and learned even more about this mysterious Christ.
Then I had babies.
When you hold a baby and realize what God did for you in letting his son be born, in order to die...wow!
Somehow for me, that seems to be when I came that much closer to really meeting him.
Seeing him and his sacrifice for the first time with clarity.
It has been almost 14 years since I held my first sweet baby, smelling that heart wrenching scent which comes off of them in waves, somehow causing unexplained tears in my eyes.
In that time, I cannot tell you the number of times I have met Christ.
I hope to continue to find him daily!
