A Photo Album

Sometimes I look back through my pictures and realize how many different "little" things have happened that would be so great to share... bits and pieces of our lives that make an incredible memory album. And then I realize that if someone were taking snapshots of every day of our lives, and writing down the little memorable things that have happened, all the sidenotes, the twists, the turns, the challenges, the changes... we would never be able to get it all down. It would never fit in volumes of books, let alone on a blog... :)

Pages and photographs cannot contain a life lived.

But... they can bring us joy, sadness, laughter, tears... they can bring us additions to our memories. Here are a few pictures that I found in my latest "look-back" session for the past three months, and I hope you enjoy...

"To everything there is a season, and time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace...

He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end...

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anthing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him."

- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, 11, and 14