Wednesday, May 21, 2014

I must decrease

Facebook can be dangerous in that we are continually promoting ME. I grow weary of the self-promotion, of throwing out for the world to see, the continual updating of the inane activities of daily life. I am just as guilty, continually shouting ME via the photography, wanting a larger share of onlookers,admirers,followers,likers,comments....
And when that does not occur with the breadth expected, it garners frustration. The ME has a unsatisfied appetite.
In the decrease, something must increase. And as John the Baptist said so well, (the first tattoo scripture verse Landon placed on his arm) He must increase, but I must decrease. Satisfaction can only come in a dying to the ME, the self-promotion. To slay the flesh and its desire. The desire for the world, the shunning of things spiritual, Christ-like.
A most difficult task especially for the artist-types, who dwell much in the flesh, the world, the things of this world.

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