From Gary... Picture this...

I am not what you think I am, I am more...

I break through the misconceptions people have of me and look for something better...

News flash!!!

I know the world does not revolve around me...

and I look at higher things than you can imagine....

And see the beauty of life in all its myriad colors...

Because I am like this on the inside...

Because of the blood price that was paid for me...

Someday, I shall walk golden streets that lead to the presence of God the Father...

And will see His pure nature with my own eyes...

And I will be loved forever!!!!

Each picture meant something to me personally. Every one of them conveyed a feeling, an emotion and this  translates into a story.  Paul puts it this way....

1 Corinthians, Chapter 13

  1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.  2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.  3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. 

  4  Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,  5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;  6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;  7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.  9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;  10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.  11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.  12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.  13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love. 

A Christian's life is like this series of pictures- the world may see you as a skunk, but God loves you!!!! Picture this; believe it, because it is TRUE!!!!

Addendum... I am corrected by my granddaughter Elizabeth- the picture at the top is a badger, not a skunk!!!

You know, a badger is fits the sentence even better because it is one nasty little animal!!!