people in the picture

Beautiful photographs are enjoyable to view.  As summer unfolds we are hearing about vacation trips to Yellowstone Park, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, the Grand Tetons as well as trips to Europe and Central America.  Folks return with colorful and dramatic scenes of our gorgeous and diverse world.  But, somehow, it's the people in the pictures that always capture my interest most.  When I look through pictures I always am attracted to those with people in them first...and if I am one of the people in the picture I vainly check out my appearance first!  I think we are most fascinated by each other and a photograph stops the action and allows us to look closer.   Perhaps the only thing more stunning than a picture of Mount Everest is a picture of a mountain climber clinging to the side of Mount Everest.  Every person is a living story and a photograph provides a moment in time preserved from that story.  And each of us is living out our personal stories as well.  When we see people in pictures we instantly connect and attempt to relate to the similarities and differences we perceive between their experience and our experience.  Every day we are stepping into new pages and chapters of living that we haven't touched before and we look for connections with others who share the adventure.  We live in the midst of a wonderful Creation and we share the drama of this life with a world of brothers and sisters, old and young.  

Genesis 1:²⁶ Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground."

 ²⁷ So God created human beings in his own image.
      In the image of God he created them;
      male and female he created them.