This and another Good Friday!

                                        

 

Friday, April 03, 2015

Good Friday

Good Friday is by far the most important religious holiday we observe, as Lutherans. At least to me. For me it is not so much what Christs death means or the promise it holds. It is, again for me, the acknowledgement- as we walked the Stations of the Cross while the sun set, that I too would have fallen asleep that last night- even as He asked for me to wait with Him. That I too, would have denied Him, would have not stepped forward to help bear His Cross, would have watched silently as He was taunted,and would have turned away, lost- as His lifeless body was placed in a tomb.

So I sat for a few moments after the others left and looked at that Cross , draped in black cloth- to symbolize His death. And it came to me, as I looked up- a thought new to me, but I'm sure shared by many..... I was looking up! Even in His death we look up! Not down, in sorrow- to the earth that will claim all our bodies, even as it did Jesus, But Up, because even in death He was showing us the promise of eternity that death gives.

A Little Compassion

 

 

 

For the people of Cuba wouldn't hurt! 

Not the government, but the people!

They have remained remarkably resilient 

for the past sixty-six years. 

 

Still Experimenting!!

 

With taking a digital image and using the processing tools in Photoshop Elements in extremes and ususual combinations to produce a "new" image.I DO NOT type or speak commands onto AI or CGI programs! Its all Jim running the computer! 

This is the way I visualized and exposed the original image. The Photograph I intended to produce! 

I just cant decide what to call this new Image, not a photograph but Painterly Digital??? 

 

                     left click to enlarge!

Nothing Like Watching the Last Rays of the Setting Sun

 Illuminate the Chisos Mountains In the Texas Big Bend!

Sorry this view is almost Too Much for my brain to take in, and it is Too Big to fit on this blog! 

I feel soory for you if you're looking at this on a phone. but you can click on it to enlarge!