One picture

They say one picture is worth a thousand words.  Have you ever thought about this?  As I was going through and organizing some things I stumbled upon a picture.  That's about all it took for me to get distracted, can you tell I may need to work on my focus?  Or maybe God has just given me a gift that I can easily change my focus, however you perceive it, this is a common story in my life.  Anyways, as I look at this one picture it contains some family members including myself as a child.  One of these family members happens to be my mom.  As I look at this picture I see more than just the people in it, I see their hearts, their joys, their insecurities, their personalities and relationships can be seen at a deeper level.  Sometimes when you see into things like this it helps you to have grace for your present moment.  It helps to see that we are not made to live this life through human righteousness and it helps to see the full benefit of Jesus' sacrifice so that we are made righteous through Him.  All history just exposes the hearts of people in the past and all pictures just capture this history.  So in this one picture it is more than just a picture, it is a glimpse at real thoughts that came from real hearts that tells a real story.  This one picture allows me to see a moment in time that was way past, right now.  What a gift!