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Redefining Sacred Space
Reflections on Leviticus
After worship one Sunday, I overheard a teenager recounting the latest scandal at her school. Another student reprimanded her, “Don’t gossip, you’re in church!” He certainly ended the conversation, but his words revealed an underlying view by which many Christians compartmentalize life—church is “holy,” everywhere else is “unholy.”
You do not have to read as far in the Old Testament to find Levitican rules about holiness and sacred space. The book is replete with them. God demands holiness from Israel, repeatedly commanding them to “be holy because I am holy” (Lev 11:44, 45; 19:2; 20:7, 26). But how do cleansing rituals for birthing practices and skin sores relate to holiness?
In ancient Israel, people, objects and spaces could be judged holy or common. The tabernacle, for example, was sacred because it was God’s dwelling place; therefore, the people of Israel would undergo extensive cleansing rituals before bringing their sacrifices to the priests. God’s command to be holy extended as far as appropriate foods (Lev 11, 17), treatment for infections (Lev 13:1–46) and sexual practices (Lev 18). Something as minor as mold or mildew found on fabric had to be brought to the priest (13:47–59). While these were not matters of moral concern, they were of great spiritual importance. The rituals for approaching God were a means of reminding Israel that God was not common.
The author of Leviticus did not assume that a person could simply follow these rules and be close to God. God established His relationship with His people before placing demands on them. Before Israel heard and obeyed (and disobeyed) the laws given in Leviticus, God repeatedly asserted that He was “the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God” (Lev 11:45; see also 19:36; 22:33). Israel was established again as God’s people at the exodus, and then they were given guidelines for how they were to live in relationship with Him. God even proclaims that He is the one who makes them holy, not adherence to the law (Lev 20:8, 23). So even in Leviticus, God bestows grace to a sinful and undeserving people. The law defines how they must live as God’s people—people set apart, like Him.
Jesus changed the rules, though. He entered creation, became the ultimate sacrifice and opened up a way—the only way—for humanity to encounter God. Those with skin diseases came to Jesus for healing and restoration into society. Paul preached that Jesus made all foods and people clean, that circumcision of the heart was the true circumcision. The New Testament bears witness that God makes His people holy through Jesus Christ.
So how do we live as people who have been made holy through Christ? As God’s people, we are given guidelines throughout Scripture for how to treat others, how to use our words, and how to control our thoughts. Yet we do not do this on our own. God’s Spirit now dwells in us—we are His temple (2 Cor 6:16). And He performs this work in us so that we may live as disciples at all times and in all places.
Over time, the relationship changes us, and we behave differently. But more important, Jesus transforms us into new creatures who reflect His holiness—no matter where we are.
AUBRY SMITH
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN BIBLE STUDY MAGAZINE SEPT–OCT ‘13
BIBLICAL REFERENCES FROM NET
Aubry Smith, “Redefining Sacred Space,” in Moment with God: A Devotional on Every Biblical Book (ed. John D. Barry and Rebecca Van Noord; Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014).
Fading, falling, lost in forever
Will I find a way to keep it together ?
N i k o n F E + N i k k o r 5 0 / 1 . 8
F u j i f i l m S u p e r i a 4 0 0
New Transdev Harrogate '36' Gemini 3 BL65 YYT 3620
Here on a very wet and windy launch in Harrogate.
New Transdev Harrogate '36' Gemini 3 BL65 YYT 3620'Riding Redefined'
Fleet: 3620
Reg: BL65 YYT
Operator: Transdev Harrogate
Route: 36 - 'Riding Redefined'
Depot: Starbeck
Type: Wright Gemini 3/ Volvo B5TL
Location: Harrogate
Notes: New to H&D 2016, first day in Service 24/01/16. Free Wi-FI, 2+1 seating upstairs and USB Charging Points.
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I was tagged today. And right now I'm going to try to tell you exactly who I am through these 10 facts.
1.I'm afraid of being judged. I have such a strong fear that people won't like me, won't like what I've done, won't like what I look like. I show a strong face and pretend not to care, but just like you, I care.
2.I desperately need a job. I received some money from my father but after next month I don't know what will happen if I don't get a job. I'm trying so hard but I live in Small Southern town, USA. It's hard here.
3.I get angry when people doubt that I'm tough. I am tough, I am strong. Tonight someone said that if I actually had to fight that I would "pee my pants" and it angered me so much. If I had to fight someone I would fight someone and you can place your bet on me. I'm not your average girly girl. I can, and will kick your ass if needed. With this being said I don't go out looking for fights. I've never been in one. But if I needed to, I'd win.
4.I want to be known for more than I am now. I want someone to come to me and tell me how much I mean to them because of one thing. How much I inspire them with my writing, my photography, or even my accent. Seriously. I just want to know that someone, anyone thinks I'm awesome for one reason and when they think of me something so strong sticks out in their mind. I think I'm selfish for this.
5.I'm a very selfish person. But I don't mind it. I'm not selfish in the way you're thinking. I'd give you anything that you needed. But I won't get you something you don't need when I do need it. I won't let you stand in my way. I won't stop doing something to make you happy. I guess I'm just very determined, maybe it's a better way to say it. And this is one of the reasons that my fear of being judged bothers me so much.
6.I'm absolutely a perfectionist. I struggle with perfectionism every day. I will hide it, but everything I do needs to be right. It will take me twice as long to do something than in would any one else just because I need it to be perfect. But I only let it show when I'm alone or I'm around someone I'm very comfortable with. In other words, I will finish stuff twice as fast as you in public or if I'm not comfortable as you. Just so I don't have the option to perfect it.
7.For those of you who have made it this far in reading these, I love you.
8.I've lost 23 pounds in 2 months. And I'm proud of that and I've told you guys that I was being healthier and I think that proves it. I can look at myself now and really enjoy how I look and feel. I've never struggled too much with self image, but seeing myself look healthier boosts my confidence.
9.I pretend to be smarter than I am. I really don't think I'm very smart. I wish I were. I'm working on this.
10.It took me 30 minutes to figure out if I liked the color or black and white version of this. I went with color, obviously. I was so unsure that I put the other in comments. Just in case I picked the wrong one. I never do that. Tell me which you one you prefer.
redefining home
so "home" is something I write about often, but it's not a concept I've ever really tried to photograph. I've been brainstorming ideas for my final project for the black and white class I'm in, and I considered trying to visually depict my various definitions of home. exploring led me to discover some recycled art projects in the back of an installation room and I took some self portraits there for the first time in months.
I guess the way I feel could be described as "perpetually displaced." I've lost my physical sense of home time and time again and I've been repeatedly forced to recreate a place for myself that I can comfortably live in and call mine. my life has been characterized by this constant redefinition and trying to fit into unexpected spaces and situations.
"redefining home" isn't always ideal, nor is it often pretty; a lot of the time, it's uncomfortable and makes me feel vulnerable. but what I have come to realize is that "home" is, at its root, an idea. it's something I carry with me wherever I go.
This beauty arrived yesterday. I'm very happy with her. The nod to the classic hat box design she arrived in. I hope everyone who has her ordered gets a 10 like mine.
Fact is I still have my cases from Fashionable Life Vanessa, Ginza Kyori, and J'Adore la Fete Elyse 💕
Fleet Number: 2211
Reg: SK74 AYO
Model: ADL Enviro400EV
Company: The Harrogate Bus Company
Route: 36
Direction: Ripon
Location: Harrogate Bus Station
Livery: Riding Redefined
Depot: Starbeck
New Transdev Harrogate '36' Gemini 3 BL65 YYR 3618
Oi Dave, There's a bus on Briggate! Ooh it's fancy in't it.
New Transdev Harrogate '36' Gemini 3 BL65 YYR 3618 'Riding Redefined'
Fleet: 3618
Reg: BL65 YYR
Operator: Transdev Harrogate
Route: 36 - 'Riding Redefined'
Depot: Starbeck
Type: Wright Gemini 3/ Volvo B5TL
Location: Leeds Briggate
Notes: New to H&D 2016, first day in Service 24/01/16. Free Wi-FI, 2+1 seating upstairs and USB Charging Points.
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For as long as I've had enthusiasm for photography, I've always been fascinated about the colors. I just cannot do black&white photography as I feel the colors themselves conduct the sense of feeling and atmosphere in photography. Yet, my great disappointment with digital cameras relates specifically to colors as I think straight-out-of-the-camera colors are most of the time just boring - too objective, perfect and without any artistic interpretation. This is kind of an opposite to film days where you would choose a different film, and different color character, based on what you think would fit to your own shooting style and aesthetic taste. To me, film with its imperfect colors represents the kind of a visual legacy which we have inherited from the past decades, but what we don't utilize enough. Instead one can find a lot of images which look more like digitally edited files and less like real photographs (and I'm guilty of this as well). Personally what I would love to have is photographs that look like 'real photographs' – yes, I know it's pretty vague and subjective description, but I do know when images don't look that. So naturally I've been pretty interested about all kinds of film emulations which are available at the market, and the one I've used a lot are the film packs from VSCO. However, I recently learned that there are quite a many photographers out there praising Mastin Labs presets, so I was interested learn more about them.
Mastin Labs is surely an interesting company. One might expect that they would just like to sell you their film-presets, but their whole business is based around the idea that in order to appreciate real film people should shoot with the real film. That's why they are very openly promoting idea of being 'a hybrid-shooter', in other words, shooting both real film and digital at the same time and in same circumstances as well. Their film presets only come after this to close the gap between real film and digital, and to make best of both worlds. Like the Kirk Mastin himself puts it: "Our goal is not to replace film, but to introduce it to a new generation of photographers".
While I've not shot much with real film (expect some experiments with Velvia 100 and Tri-X), this kind of thinking of course caught my attention as it seems to meet my own understanding of film as a visual legacy which still guides, at least in some subtle ways, the aesthetics of photography. With their encouraging examples and a few great reviews I decided to give their film packs a go. After all, I've used quite a long time VSCO film pack for my editing and while I've been pretty satisfied with the results, there are some quirks which I could definitely live without.
So, I've been using the Mastin Labs presets now for about a month at least and if you want to see the results, you can browse back nine previous post as they are all done with these presets (see the 'Mastinlabs' tag there underneath every post). The images I put here in this post are more of a random 'summer snaps', but I do think they do exemplify the characteristics of the 'Fuji' and 'Portra' packs (I do have the b&w 'Iilford' pack as well, but being about the black and white photography it's more difficult for me to approach). The 'Fuji' and 'Portra' packs are both very good, and I'd have to say thatone of the most notable effect with these presets are the 'Fuji greens' that are definitely there. At first this was something that took me a while getting used to as the greens are shifted towards the blues quite a bit, but I've started to appreciate it as it often makes the overall colors more clear (by reducing yellow components). I also have to give credit to Mastin Labs regarding the skin colors. They advertise great skin colors which just '3 clicks or less', and while it often takes a bit more than that, the skin colors are indeed quite good and I don't need to correct them later on, for example, in Photoshop (which is a great relief).
One thing I always found difficult with the VSCO film packs, is that they come with too much contrast which is achieved with the curves-tool in Lightroom. In order to make it work, I often needed to lower the contrast significantly with the basic tone adjustment tools (because editing r, g, and b channels from the curves tool is just too cumbersome to do in any meaningful accuracy). With pictures that have difficult lightning this can be a pretty challenging job and with some pictures I never got it right (even after some Photoshop work). In a sense, this 'tuning down' the preset was a stage I could live without, but I have to give it to VSCO that their latest film packs, like the 07, is much better in this regard and it seems to me that have had to recognize this problem by themselves too.
Compared to this difficult work flow the Mastin Labs presets are like a breath of fresh air. They definitely have a different way to achieve the film emulation using Lightroom's tools. At first, I was a bit troubled that the presets used the basic tone adjustment tools so heavily to alter the tones (and therefore it limits my own leeway), but after having used them for a fair month I believe this is a very nice solution which leads to very elegant tones most of the time. The tones don't get congested like they sometimes do with the VSCO (because one is effectively toning down and up again with the VSCO), and overall I feel I'm getting a bit better pictures this way.
So, all in all, my first experience with the Mastin Labs is very positive. Is it just a novelty of new things, that I need to find out later on, but haven't touch the VSCO-presets after I tried these out. And if you're thinking that using presets as a starting point for your post production process is somehow wrong, try work out thousands of raw files from a scratch and see if this makes you reconsider the way you approach your post process and the wrist of your mouse hand (been there and done that). Finding yourself a high quality post processing presets that work with your own style (it could, of course, be something totally else than film emulations) is an important step to better photographs as it will make your work more polished and also provide you a set of meaningful reference points. Before using any presets my work was pretty random as my goals kept on shifting and it wasn't easy to find a consistent way to post process my work. Using presets will give you just that, and that's also a reason why I recommend anyone to test out different preset packs and find out the ones that speak to them most from their own point of view. Like I said, it's an important step in one's photography, and once you've committed it you will wonder how I ever did without it.
Days of Zeiss: www.daysofzeiss.com
One of the most beautiful and fascinating places I have ever seen, masterpiece of Rationalist architecture. To see how badly this is kept at present makes my heart blees.
The new look 36 Riding Redefined had arrived into service on Sunday January 24th 2016.
There were six daily peak-time express trips into and out of Leeds Monday-Friday, via Scott Hall Road the A61. However as the year progressed this interesting addition to the 36 route was proving to taken more time to arrive into the City. More often not been able to stick to the timetable, with delays caused by traffic build up or RTCs. The 36s were found to be quicker along the normal Moortown/Chapletown corridor.
After passengers complained about this new 'Fast to Leeds' service. Transdev have listened to their passengers, as of Monday September 5th 2016. The 36 will on longer travel along the A61, but continue along the normal route used since 1924.
New Transdev Harrogate '36' Gemini 3 BL65 YYR 3618
Oi Dave, There's a bus on Briggate! Ooh it's fancy in't it.
New Transdev Harrogate '36' Gemini 3 BL65 YYR 3618 'Riding Redefined'
Fleet: 3618
Reg: BL65 YYR
Operator: Transdev Harrogate
Route: 36 - 'Riding Redefined'
Depot: Starbeck
Type: Wright Gemini 3/ Volvo B5TL
Location: Leeds Briggate
Notes: New to H&D 2016, first day in Service 24/01/16. Free Wi-FI, 2+1 seating upstairs and USB Charging Points.
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there's a lot of controversy regarding dimensions of GOD... among religions...
Some says Allah is invisible, cannot be defined into dimensions...
Some portray god Through iconic sculptures...
The religions are different, the tales and rituals varies...
But they all do believe... believe in GOD...
All describes evil as the misguiding power...
This evil influence human beings to commit sin...
sins are always sinful... whatever the religion is...
Some poetry deities killing the evil, the evil in human face...
And what's the color of his blood?
It's red and obviously red... because evil power always lies inside human...
Though Hinduism define them through sculptures.... Besides other religions like Islam, Christians depict the same canon in different diction...
(An artist is coloring the sculpture of "Hindu Goddess Durga killing Evil Ashur" for upcoming rituals)
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Taken From Alkoron Road, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Copyright: Abdul Aziz Apu
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neel, this time no fakibazi, no pulling out from the archive.
This one is fresh from the greens=)
isn't she cute?
The Liberty Statue looms over the Danube on Gellert Hill in Budapest. It's original Soviet inscription, in English, read: "To the memory of the liberating Soviet heroes [erected by] the grateful Hungarian people [in] 1945". Upon obtaining independence, the Hungarian people decided to keep the statue changing the inscription (translated from Hungarian to English): "To the memory of those all who sacrificed their lives for the independence, freedom, and prosperity of Hungary"
Traditionally, the equinox describes the point at which the sun crosses the plane of the earth’s equator, resulting a day and night of equal length. But when the last rays of the setting sun fall across the meadow, they set the pasture ablaze, constraining its equine inhabitants to cast dark shadows, like the black holes at the centers of galaxys, redefining the equinox. #Wildhorses