I can say that since last Tuesday so much has happened in my life. First, I had two photo jobs last week that went extremely well! I have only scratched the surface on editing these but they are turning out great! More to come.
If you have read my last post, you might know what I am going through. This weekend I was a part of a drama at my church that was Easter depicted in an extremely stylistic way. My character was the one that portrayed Jesus and I truly believe that through it God changed me. Every night before the show, a group of us would pray and anoint our feet with oil. What a powerful time that was! We no longer were acting but acting with the Holy Spirit. His radiance and brilliance could be felt. At the end of the show where the whole cast comes together for a choir medley, God instilled in me a heart for worship. I felt renewed and refreshed and overwhelmed with his love, such powerful and intense love.
For the first time I have truly understood the meaning of Easter. How powerful is it to think that God gave up his only son to die for the entire world. Here is an excerpt from the drama I was in that says it so plainly.
"Jesus silently bore the extreme violence of their indignation upon himself. He bore it in his flesh with brutal beatings, bruising and tearing his flesh- ripping and clawing the pure life out of him. In that wretched state he was forced to carry a heavy, crudely hewn cross up a dusty road lined with the mobs crying for his death. Jesus knew he was born for this reason, to be the perfect lamb sacrificed for all humanity. At that gruesome hour only the hot breath of Hell was his companion, all of his disciples had fled, no one defended him. He was alone and bearing the full wrath of judgement, he had every vile, evil deed ever committed by man heaped upon his soul as he hung there, unable to help himself to cover his nakedness from the jeering mob. The King turned His face from his son. He couldn't look on such wickedness."
How awesome is this! I am so thankful of this holiday and Gods love for all of us! It is truly a powerful time.
I spent time with my family that day and really enjoyed my time with them. As you can see, the joy was everywhere- we all had a great day!
This is Mackenzie. She is a very cute baby who is always happy when I see her. She is turning one in a month and I am going to take more pictures of her. I am very excited!
My cousins are always fun to be around and there are so many of them! I have a very photogenic family!
This is John. He is a fun little guy who I like to hang out with. He was picking leaves off that tree and throwing them in the pool, then at me when I tried to take his picture. I ended up chasing him all around until he randomly stopped and posed for this. It was funny!
Ricky is Johns brother and boy is he a hoot! Halfway through lunch he got his pants dirty and decided to ditch them for the rest of the day. This little guy was running around in his diaper all day long. It was hard to keep up with him!
I got this next one as I was leaving. I wanted to get a picture of the cross but Ricky was standing there. This one cracks me up because... well, just look at the look on his face! Comical!
As I said, I have lots of pictures to post! I'm going to be very busy from now until the end of May, but I am sure I will be posting! Hopefully I will be able to put up some good ones from my Washing DC trip or LA trip coming up ;) School starts up again tomorrow and I will want rest. Sorry for such a random post! Until next time... (forshadowing below)
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