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Semana Santa en La Antigua Guatemala
GalerÃa Fundación Ancalmo
San Salvador, El Salvador
13 marzo - 10 abril, 2015
Many of the young woman in Chengdu dress in a similar fashion for spring and summer....so smart and attractive. Temperature around 35C.
Wenshu Temple, Chengdu, China.
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/on-quieting-your-heart-before-go...
Pondering the words of God and praying over the words of God at the same time as eating and drinking the actual words of God—this is the first step to being at peace before God. If you can be truly at peace before God, then the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit will be with you.
All spiritual life is achieved by relying on being quiet before God. In praying you must be quiet before God before you can be moved by the Holy Spirit. By being quiet before God when you eat and drink God’s words you can be enlightened and illuminated and be able to achieve truly understanding God’s words. In your usual meditation and fellowship, and when you are drawing close to God with your heart, only when you are quiet before God can you have genuine closeness to God, genuine understanding of God’s love and God’s work, and true thoughtfulness toward God’s intentions. The more you are usually able to be quiet before God the more you can be illuminated, and the more you are able to understand your own corrupt disposition, what you lack, what you should enter, what function you should serve, and where you have defects. All these are achieved by relying on being quiet before God. If you truly reach some depth in being quiet before God, you can touch some mysteries in the spirit, touch on what God at present wants to do on you, touch on deeper understanding of God’s words, and touch on the essence of God’s words, on the substance of God’s words, on the being of God’s words, and you can see the path of practice more thoroughly and more accurately. If you cannot be quiet in your spirit to a certain depth, you will just be somewhat moved by the Holy Spirit, inside you will feel strength, and some enjoyment and peace, but you will not touch anything deeper. I have said before, if one does not use all their strength, it will be difficult for them to hear My voice or see My face. This refers to achieving depth in being quiet before God, not to external effort. A person who can truly be quiet before God is able to free themselves from all worldly ties and can achieve being occupied by God. All people who are unable to be quiet before God are assuredly dissolute and unrestrained. All who are able to be quiet before God are people who are pious before God, people who yearn for God. It is only people who are quiet before God who pay attention to life, pay attention to fellowship in spirit, who thirst for God’s words, and who pursue the truth. All those who pay no attention to being quiet before God, who do not practice being quiet before God are vain people who are completely attached to the world, who are without life; even if they say they believe in God they are just paying lip-service. Those God ultimately perfects and completes are people who can be quiet before God. Therefore, people who are quiet before God are people graced with great blessings. People who during the day take little time to eat and drink God’s words, who are completely preoccupied with external affairs, and do not pay attention to life entry are all hypocrites with no prospect of developing in the future. It is those who can be quiet before God and genuinely commune with God who are God’s people.
from "On Quieting Your Heart Before God"
African tribal painting by Shirley Shelton
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Semana Santa en La Antigua Guatemala
GalerÃa Fundación Ancalmo
San Salvador, El Salvador
13 marzo - 10 abril, 2015
A Romaria Diocesana de Jundiaà a Pirapora do Bom Jesus é um tradicional evento realizado anualmente, que reúne grande número de romeiros, devotos do Bom Jesus. Em 2009, ela recebeu, por iniciativa da Prefeitura do MunicÃpio, o Certificado de ‘Bem Cultural Imaterial de JundiaÃ’, outorgado pela Comissão Paulista de Floclore, da Secretaria de Estado da Cultura. A foto, tirada por Fernando Picarelli Martins, no dia 16 de maio de 2010, mostra o retorno a Jundiaà dos romeiros participantes da 96ª edição da Romaria.
"Courage"-- because he fears nothing,
Guards me with his life. . . Loves me with his whole little heart.
Sleeps in my bed-touching me always, lays near my bath without so much
as a complaint about the heat. . And won't even eat-unless he can see
me. What more could a girl want??? My little man.
"Courage"
Semana Santa en La Antigua Guatemala
GalerÃa Fundación Ancalmo
San Salvador, El Salvador
13 marzo - 10 abril, 2015
I practice yoga not only as a physical practice, but as a devotional practice. This is the position I'm often in after a session, sometimes with my prayer beads in hands. I had a different idea of how I wanted to portray this concept, but I wound up with this instead. I'm very nervous about portraits, but I'm trying to push myself to work on it more. It was really fun playing with this, seeing what angles were interesting and trying to beat the camera timer (even while using a remote trigger, I had to rush). This photo also taught me a lot about lighting and although I am not completely happy with the end product (the shadow under the nose and mouth) it's a hell of a lot better than where I started.
I also wasn't sure if I wanted to play with this shot and rotate it. I did do that and while I liked it, it reminded me a bit too much of another D: death, as though I was peeking into a coffin at a wake.