Lari’s Reflections:
After the Nazarene Tabernacle had been torn down, I returned to walk through the rubble. I wasn't sure what I was looking for nor what I would find. But my desire was to capture an image that spoke of the moment. There was barely a hint of the majestic tabernacle that once stood on the concrete slab that now boasted a heap of fallen trees and splintered trusses. Yet my instincts kept telling me to keep looking. Then something did catch the very corner of my eye from across the slab ... oh, just a piece of trash, or ... wait, what is that? As I approached to investigate, I caught my breath. There, curled so delicately and wedged into a crack in the foundation wall, was this sole piece of sheet music. As I framed the image in my camera the intimate details were revealed. From that rubble-filled crack emerged the metaphor of my journey and my faith: fragile and tossed away, viewed useless and forgotten, immobilized by the force that had lodged it there, nestled with the rest of the debris and splinters of the past. Yet through the rubble that surrounded it, the humble musical notes declared an essence of beauty and hope; proclaiming a solitary message of truth amidst the despair of the moment : "Christ is."http://www.thelarigallery.com/photo_christ-is_14_252.html
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