Vision and Reality
"And the parched ground shall become a pool"
Isaiah 35:7

We always have visions, before a thing is made real.  When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say it is no use to go on.  Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.
    Life is not as idle ore,
    But iron dug from central gloom,
    And batter'd by the shocks of doom
    To shape and use.
God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way.  Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.  Think of the enormous leisure of God!  He is never in a hurry.  We are always in such a frantic hurry.  In the light of the glory of the vision we go forth to do things, but the vision is not real in us yet; and God has to take us into the valley, and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the place where He can trust us with the veritable reality.  Ever since we had the vision God has been at work, getting us into the shape of the ideal, and over and over again we escape from His hand and try to batter ourselves into our own shape.
    The vision is not a castle in the air, but a vision of what God wants you to be.  Let Him put you on His wheel and whirl you as He likes, and as sure as God is God and you are you, you will turn out exactly in accordance with the vision.  Don't lose heart in the process.  If you have ever had the vision of God, you may try as you like to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never let you.

- This book, "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers has inspired me so many times! 
Keep pursuing your dreams, goals, and most importantly GOD!

So I wanted to post some of the pix I took for my brother, but the thought suddenly struck me that if I post them, his girlfriend (who was the whole reason for the photo shoot to start with) might see them before she actually gets her personal copy(s), and that would NEVER do! *shakes head emphatically*. 

So I decided not to post the pictures, but just tell you about what I was gonna do instead!

My personal quote for the day-
"What goes up, must come down. 
When it comes down, sometimes it lands with a crash." 

  Hooray!  Summer is here in all of it's glory!!  I'm lovin' it!  
I was feeling rather random last evening, and had fun soaking up the evening from my camera's perspective.

I can't resist adding 2 pictures from the wedding I helped shoot last Saturday.
I'll let the pix talk for themselves!  Personally, I found it rather amusing!