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“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Mathew 11:28-30

Things are not easy all the time. When they are hard, sometimes its not our fault but most of the time it is. “Taking on his yoke”, his commands and his path and “learning from him” are not burdensome and in fact should be “easy and light”. When we do that we will find rest. So.. bottom line is follow instruction and “your souls will be at rest”.

For the hearts of this people have grown dull.Their ears are hard of hearing,And their eyes they have closed,Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,So that I should heal them.’
–Matthew 13:15

I really really hope this can bring to life verses with a creative art like photography. Its got so many possibilities and I’m really glad to have one of my greatest loves (at the moment) edify others.

I never intended it to be timed like this and neither is this loaded (just in case.. You can never be too safe you know?). I have been thinking of this verse as my first Verse-in-a-Picture-matic! I don’t know why and I won’t pretend to have anything to write about it beyond what I was actually thinking when I did take it.. I was shopping at Tangs with my mom when it came to me.

My mom remarked to Hannah – “Eeee, why these people got no face one..” and I just snapped a photo when this verse popped into my mind. It is kinda scary.. That we can be so hard of hearing and refuse to see our own situation and prevent God from healing us! And it all begins with an un-seeking heart! I’m beginning to just see a tinge of what Ben meant the first time he came back so dogmatic about being broken. I have refused to be upset over my sin many times. However, the closer I get to God and the deeper into his word I get, the more upset I get about my own sin. Things that didn’t bother now stick out a little. Those that stick out a little made me sian. Those that made me sian now break my heart. These good attitudes to sin dissapear in a day! or even in a matter of minutes when place is given to the devil. Its like a house of cards, so precarious and a little callusnous can cause our hearts to be absolutely cold to sin all over again.

Let it not be the case with us.