5/1/2013;
Walk the Lockscreen Gallery: 4/16/2013;
Walk the Lockscreen Gallery: 4/11/2013;
Today’s post will revert to imagery of phone use, beginning with Star Trek; concentrating on one of my favorite characters of all time, Jack Bauer in ’24′; and ending with 3 images from a Charles Bronson movie, Telefon:
As always, I encourage you to review the gallery in its’ entirety at the Gallery Page.
4/11/2013;
Walk the Lockscreen Gallery: 4/5/2013:
It seems prudent that I publish each new series of images into the gallery as separate posts , each with a link to the gallery page.
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4/5/2013;
Walking in Pain and Empathy on Good Friday
As my faith has richened with Bible study and reflection on the sermons of my Pastor and the commentary on scripture I have written devotionals on, it has struck me that Good Friday is indeed the most important and meaningful Holy day of the year.
It is symbolic, for me, of the essential tenet of Christian faith, i.e., Grace. God gave his only Son for our salvation, and in doing so saved us from the devil and forgave us our sins. There has been no greater gift to mankind in the history of the world, when you stop and ponder the sheer magnitude of our sinfulness.
This is reflected in, and symbolized by, the horrific and excruciating physical torture; rending; lashing and defilement of He Who is God made flesh.
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Observe that:
–Depictions of Christ’s Passion can never be “over the top” when one considers the depths of man’s depravity toward fellow men; the folly of greed; pride and coveting, and the wallowing of our society in the shallow seas of materialism. Small wonder that his suffering and death were so visceral and cruel.
–The physical suffering and the rending of flesh were warranted by the fact that Jesus was a man, however sinless. The flesh in us can only truly cringe if we note that Christ, like us, was flesh and blood.
–That His suffering of scorn and ridicule was emblematic of the message God was moved to convey: As the Son of God; he could easily have responded to deriding exhortations to “save yourself, if you are the Son of God”. That he did not, and, instead, suffered both the torment of his fellow man and His forsaking by his father, is eloquent in depicting his acceptance of his mission to die for us rather than to prove Himself as being something other than us.
–He was ”us”. He cried out “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” As a man, even Jesus, due to his flesh and his heart and his brain, cried out for some solace; some sign that his Father could help him or come to His aid in this blackest of hours. Indeed, His sacrifice, depicted in gruesome and gory detail, was “Good” for us.
It is fitting that Good Friday is, like Easter, assigned no date certain on modern calendars. So momentous an occasion cannot be fixed on any mortally-invented calendar. It rather is simply the ‘Friday before Easter’. The joy of Easter and the celebration and exaltation of his rising again to join His Father is enhanced and made more meaningful by its’ contrast to the blackness of the events on that blessed Friday.
For what is happiness unless one has first experienced sorrow?
That last question leads me to pose others:
–How can we purport to abide by Gods’ command to love one another unless we first experience their pain and sorrow?
–Should not our love of God be all the more intense and visceral when the pain; anguish and death of his only Son resulted in the tearing asunder of the temple veil which had, at long last, ended the separation between man and God?
–How can we ask the forbearance of others of our weaknesses and limitations unless we empathize with theirs?
Mortality is fleeting. As such, suffering; sadness and pain, though inherent in the human lot, are also fleeting.. Whatever your answers to the questions above; strive to acknowledge Gods’ Grace by sharing it. It can only be shared. Let the Holy Spirit in your heart reach out and share your pain with others and let you see that your pain, and theirs, are but darknesses preceding the Light.
English: Resurrection of Christ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Rejoice that Jesus lives in every heart, and suffers with us every day, so that we can one day know that the ‘veils’ we perceive are of our own making, not Gods‘.
One Step in the Walk to the Essence of Faith
As I called the cats to their daily treats, I noted the one who did not respond, and confess that I am now convinced of the essential basis for faith; salvation and Grace during this Holy season.
It is, simply, God saying to his children, essentially this:
“Chump don’t want no treats? Chump don’t get no treats!”
Celebrate the Walk of Jesus this season by assessing the direction of the walk you take through life.
god (Photo credit: the|G|™)
Don’t be a ‘chump’. Don’t make Jesus do all the walking.
‘Treats’ abound in Heaven. The walk you take to its’ glory is yours, and yours alone….
Walk the Lockscreen Gallery: A New Feature and a New Page.
A pet project that I so enjoy is the sifting; capturing; cropping and editing photos of a retro, ’noir ’ tone with some tongue-in-cheek irony mixed in.
I produce an image thread in a forum I belong to which has had a reasonably enthusiastic reception.
The particular thread is devoted to cropping and editing images for clarity and file size limitation for use as ‘members’ avatars’.
An example of my avatar on that site: 
The recent acquisition of a Windows 8 Phone has thrilled me to no end, and I started recently to amass a small library of lockscreen images for Windows and iPhones devices with an approximate 4.4″ screen and an aspect ratio of 6/10.
The enjoyable thing about it is that there are no hard and fast rules for pixel height; width and file size As pics ready for use as lockscreens or other backgrounds on these devices, minimal cropping is necessary.
I have tried to maximize clarity of he date and time text on the lockscreen by trying to minimize the brightness of the screen so as to sufficiently contrast with the white date and time display. (I am too new to ‘smart-phones‘ to know if this display text can be any color other than white).
The easiest way, for me, at least, to get one on your phone is to save it to your computing device and email it to one of your email accounts where it can be accessed on the phone, saved and selected with about two swipes on the screen. Of course it’s even easier if you are viewing this blog on your phone.
I find them engaging with friends or acquaintances who happen to view them, and much preferable to the stock stuff you see in the generic gaming or ’cute horsey’ stuff (no offense). It saves bandwidth spent on surfing hundreds of common images just to get two or three that are meaningful, effective and unique.
An example is the one I’m using now:
The theme in the initial posts is virtual representation of phone use in evoking a mood or feeling that may happen to match your own. As in my avatar gallery, I also try to group the images so as to evoke other inferences as to theme.
** To access, go to that page, or click here.
