Pictures

Since the birth of this blog however many years ago now most (maybe all) of the pictures have been from around The Farm and several from Missy's grandparents' place (including the header). It's not just because I like this place (although I do) and it's not just because I'm here and this is what I have to photograph (although that's true too). No, there is a certain significance (maybe even "sacramental significance" - although we'll go there later) to the pictures of this place that reach far beyond their appeal or utility.

Going back to the passage in Philippians that I referenced in my previous post (Phil. 3:20-21) it seems to me that place matters because resurrection matters. We are, even now, citizens of a future land and that land is a land of resurrection. Philippians 3:21 ties Christ's resurrection to our resurrection and then he goes on to claim that it is this same "power that enables him even to subject all things to himself." All things.

It is this resurrection power, this resurrection hope, and this resurrection land in which our citizenship even now lies. We are even now citizens of that place. And because of that there is beauty and significance and hope and .... to these very particular and specific images from across this farm. Because we are even now citizens of a resurrection land.