
March has become a significant month for me. Four years ago, our
daughter was born (March 24). Two years ago (February 26-March 5), we were in
Cape Town, South Africa, where the concept for Cape House was inspired. A year ago (March 2), I stepped out in faith to pursue this new business venture full time. And this past Saturday (March 3), we enjoyed being a part of a photo shoot with
Jess Henderson for Cape House.
A photo shoot may not seem that significant, but as I scrolled through the pictures, I realized how much my little girl has already grown up! With a few tears streaming down my face (shocker, right?), I thought about our visits to the NICU for 18 days after she was born and her petite, 4lb 1oz frame. Now, she's embracing adventures with T-Rex dinosaurs and riding roller coasters at Sea World (even if it is in Shamu's Happy Harbour).
One of our associates in the store said, "I would give anything to go back and have pictures like that with my kids at that age." Pictures are priceless, and they capture moments that we will look back on for years, even generations, to remember where we were, who we were with, and what we were able to experience.
Moments matter! I try to remind my wife that as I reach for my phone every 10 minutes to take another picture or video. Yes, it's often cheese or bacon, but there's a lot of Addi Grace and snapshots from my day. She still doesn't believe it needs to make it to my Insta story, but we'll continue to wrestle through that.
Every single picture means something though. Think about it, when you scroll through your social media feeds or look back at an old photo album (yes, you used to have to print pictures and put them in a book), it heightens your sense of an experience. If we're not careful, we'll get preoccupied with what is right in front of us without even seeing it.
In Joshua 4, God has led his people through a river, literally. He stopped the river from flowing to allow them to walk through on dry land. Miraculous. A moment. God instructs Joshua to select twelve men from each tribe and pick up stones from the middle of the river and set them down on the other side as a sign of what God did for generations to come.
I love this. It's simple AND significant. Take something from the middle of what you experienced and bring it to the other side. I don't want to dilute an incredible miracle God performed, but at its core, this is a "picture" of capturing the moment and memorializing it.
We may not always perceive our daily grind as equivalent to walking through water, but I promise there are moments in the midst of it all (that God is in) and He wants you to remember it. He wants you to use it to share His faithfulness and His goodness for others to see.
In the current pace of technology, I encourage you to "pic" up a rock from what you're walking through. Take in the moments God is putting in front of you and capture them because what you experience ultimately tells His story.
THESE STONES ARE TO BE A MEMORIAL TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL FOREVER.
JOSHUA 4:7