Mark 3:3
Upon the first light of mornglown we met. The first day of the resurrection from the darkness. The first day of the journey. Leaving the darkness of the cemetery, the withered hand finding restoration. This first day found us meditating upon Psalm 33. The poetry of Isaac Watts on Psalm 33 from the old 1858 Watts and Select Hymns was read. The first half went thus:
Rejoice, ye righteous in the Lord,
This work belongs to you;
Sing of his name, his ways, his word,
How holy, just and true!
His mercy and his righteousness
Let heaven and earth proclaim;
His works of nature and of grace
Reveal his wondrous name.
His wisdom and almighty word
The heavenly arches spread;
And by the Spirit of the Lord,
Their shining hosts were made.
He bade the liquid waters flow
To their appointed deep;
The flowing seas their limits know,
And their own stations keep.
Ye tenants of the spacious earth,
With fear before him stand;
He spake, and nature took its birth,
And rests on his command.
He scorns the nations rage,
And breaks their vain designs;
His counsel stands through every age,
And in full glory shines.
After meditating and in a continual state of prayer, I journeyed down to the little Price Creek Cemetery and awaited the morning light.
I felt compelled to visit this location and photograph the entrance gate with the giant oak in the background. From there, I returned home and went to work until six pm. The first days of any journey are the most difficult. We fret over things we forgot, things we should not have taken, not sure of our route, the cares of life. For this journey, I am as a man undertaking a journey having been sent with nothing more than the grave cloths in which he was laid. It will be a journey that shall find me clothed entirely in His righteousness by the end of days. The first week shall find me weak, the temptations will abound, the call to return to the coolness of the cemetery will beckon.
Walk along in prayer for my family in our journey for only by grace shall we make it.
I plan t go back and redo this one.On observing the sun, the better photo seems to be in the late evening, not early morning. In the evening, the sun hits the gate. To get it rising, I would have to wait until after 10AM.
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