I’d like to start with a little Good Friday Devotional I found on MethodistThinker.com:
On Good Friday we commemorate that day nearly 2,000 years ago when the way of salvation was opened. Jesus the Messiah, the One who knew no sin, became sin for us and suffered the death we deserved.
As the Apostle Paul puts it in 2 Corinthians 5:19, “God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them.”
A prayer:
Father, how can we thank you enough? You did not spare your own Son, but gave Him up for us. We echo the words of the songwriter who asked, “What wondrous love is this?”
Thank you for Jesus, the perfect sacrifice, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
Now, as He lives in us by the Holy Spirit, may we become living sacrifices, pouring all that we have, all that we are, all that we hope to be into the advancement of your kingdom.
This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, the Living One, who was dead and now is alive forevermore.
This will be one Lent that I will truly never forget. It started with some much joy and fellowship on Ash Wednesday and shortly thereafter it will end in quarantine and physical isolation. But the isolation isn’t forever. The physical fellowship will return again.
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Back in October, I got together with the Bravard family to take their family portraits. As is the tradition almost every time I do family portraits, the lighting was brutally harsh, but we got some pictures I like. Have a look:
It was a lot of fun taking their family photos!
Moore Memorial is one of my favorite places to do sessions! (Also, we got married there.) It has so much character.
I actually wish we had done the whole session there. The lighting was absolutely brutal where we started, which was the Ames Middle School.
The bridge there is great, but there’s just no shade. If you can get there in the fall and in the late afternoon/early evening, the little county park area (I forget the name offhand) just south of Workiva has similar feel in the bridge and a little pond. But there’s still not a ton of shade – Moore is just far better for that. The only problem is that sometimes you pick up some red tints off of the barn and silo.