---FOLLOW IN JESUS' STEPS ~~

~~"But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money,
proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy."
---(2 Timothy 3:1-2 / ESV) --

~~PHOTOS ARE PRECIOUS, But social media has distorted the time-honored tradition of memory making for me. At some point I started to feel as if I were staging my life rather than living it.

Getting the family to all look at the camera for a few vacation pictures felt like a professional photo shoot. Relocating our fun a few feet to the left. Or having the kids strike a once-spontaneous pose for the fourth time. Ick! Let's not even talk about posting or answering comments. It had to stop.

Most of our family, including our older kids, live a distance away, so social media does help us keep in touch, but I want to be in the present for the memories. Undistracted.

I've learned that no matter how many "likes" a post gets, my true audience of close friends and family is pretty small. But ultimately, mine is an audience of One, who knows the hearts and stories behind the pictures intimately, without my having to post a single one.

I still snap photos but only post a few times a week. Best of all, the people I love still love me. The most important Person to know and love is Jesus. I try to meditate on Matthew 6:33. "Seek first the kingdom of God...and all these things will be added to you." Yes, Jesus is God of all my days.

"God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,
In these last days has spoken to us in His Son, [Jesus Christ], whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world" [Hebrews 1:1-2].

-"Children it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour" [1 John 2:18].
"For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will" (Matthew 24:44].

--ODB/IY~
--"God Of All My Days" // (lyric video/ Casting Crowns)//<https://youtu.be/RocPcgqCDE0>
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