The Bunk, The Desk, and The Toilet

Why did the picture go to jail? Because it was framed

I have pictures of my wife and family taped on my wall underneath my cellmate's bunk. I have taped pictures of loved ones. I taped pictures to look up at them while lying in my bunk. At night I would lie on my back with my hands behind my head and stare a the pictures. Sometimes I get melancholy and cry as I watch the scenes of my family. I watch my siblings grow up in photos. I watch them grow old in pictures.

Anna, Maggie, George, Aunt Mary, and Carolyn

"The photographer does not view scenes as moments to be savored but as a future memory to be designed."

Some pictures stand out because of family vacations and how it appears that I am in the picture. Sadly, I am not physically there, but I have been digitally cropped into the photo. If you saw the picture and didn't know I was in prison, you would think I was enjoying a family vacation. Pictures are unique.

"Have you cropped God in your life picture?"

Some pictures stand out because of family vacations and how it appears that I am in the picture. Sadly, I am not physically there, but I have been digitally cropped into the photo. If you saw the picture and didn't know I was in prison, you would think I was enjoying a family vacation. Pictures are unique.

Christmas at White Sands

While lying in my bunk one night, I learned to picture my earthly story of hurt and God's heavenly stories of hope. When life stinks, I give it a "courtesy flush." When life stinks, my perspective can't shrink. When hard times come, we tend to have a negative outlook. That's not just a natural phenomenon that Satan initiates.

Satan attempts to crop GOD out of the picture. We can easily cut people and things out of images when it comes to digital photography. That is what Satan seeks to do; Satan seeks to attack our mind, so all we see is our circumstances, and we don't see GOD in the picture. We have a crop GOD back into the picture. How do we do that? We naturally ask people, "how are they doing?" Yet, as Christians, we must ask, "what do you think GOD is up to in this?"

"How do you see God in the picture?"

Satan wants to use our suffering to suck the life out of us. Ask yourself, "How can you connect to Christ? And ask yourself, "How have you been able to worship in the midst of this? I told a guy one time to know Jesus is to know suffering. Whether you know God or not, you will go through difficult times in life. That's just the way the world is. Seriously! But to know God amid suffering is the greatest comfort. God is the only one who can take our pain and give it a pleasure. God is the only one who can give beauty to the ashes in our life. Although emotions are affected by the Fall in Genesis as other aspects of our lives, our emotions are also equally transformed in a relationship with Jesus Christ. As I lay in my bunk, looking at the pictures tapped underneath my cellmate's bunk, I learned that I must always put GOD in the picture?

Dr. Korey

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