Resurrection Year Countdown Day 4 (Photo Competition)
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Countdown Day 4
My new book Resurrection Year: Turning Broken Dreams into New Beginnings releases in just 4 days! (Tuesday May 28). Each day in the lead up I’m posting a photo drawn from Merryn’s and my life that relates to a chapter of the memoir.
Monday’s photo related to chapter 1
Tuesday’s photo related to chapter 2
On Wednesday I announced the Resurrection Year Webcast, so no photo. (But make sure you check your local time and book in for this special event)
Thursday’s photo related to chapter 3
And today’s image relates to chapter 4. Think you know what its relevance is to broken dreams and new beginnings? (This one will require some reflection)
The most creative or insightful answer wins an ebook (PDF) copy of Resurrection Year!
Tell Me Now!
What is the relevance of the photo above to Resurrection Year, broken dreams and new beginnings? Tell me now in the comments section
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Emma
This picture of a canal could be a picture of navigating narrow and difficult paths – not being able to see where you are going and not being able to use normal means of transport (water instead of land). The ancient city reminds us that our struggles have been fought by so many in the past and will be by others in the future. However the new paths are new for us in our journey.
Sheridan Voysey
I like the way you think, Emma, whether the answer is close to being correct or not (it’s so hard for me to stay quiet, but I’m loving reflections like this!)
angie
You’ve made your decision to walk through the future with a different perspective…healing through a new experience- so exploring together a beautiful land with a difference ,this is where you started!…The landscape stirs within you new hope …also marks the point that you have begun the journey …………..
Sheridan Voysey
Nice, Angie.
Jo Raymond
Hmmmm…. I think….. It’s about making connections. Bridges. Making connections between two points. Venice is a series of islands, isn’t it? All connected with little bridges. Maybe… 🙂
Sheridan Voysey
In a funny way you’re right, Jo. Although that’s not the point the book makes. This is fun – you’re helping me to see other possibilities in the story I didn’t see myself while living it.
Rob Furlong
One of the most famous landmarks in Venice is the San Marco bell tower which, if memory serves me correctly, has collapsed and been rebuilt twice over the years. The photo reminds me that Venice is a city of many new beginnings after dreams were shattered throughout its history:Marco Polo bringing the East to the West; the famous ship building docks of Arsenale which made Venice the most powerful city state of its time and in 1978, albeit briefly, it was a new beginning for the Catholic Church when Venice’s Cardinal was elected as Pope John-Paul I. The scene in this photo evokes this wonderful spirit of Venice for me
Sheridan Voysey
Spoken by someone who has clearly visited this beautiful, though somewhat broken, city.
Anonymous
Leaving behind the past, unable to craft your life the way you’d planned, you have now stopped trying to forge your own path, and are instead being carried along by the stream in the only direction it can take – oceanwards. The walls that border the stream, which once seemed to close you in, now begin to appear as beautiful, graceful, colourful, surprising guides, used by the Master to mould your destiny, the way He wills. Somewhere in Venice, you look up, and there beyond the shadows, glimpsing the sun and all it lights up around you, the greys are becoming colours once again.
Sheridan Voysey
How on earth am I going to choose winners from these comments?
Anonymous
Just make some new prizes and we can all win. I bags the free UK holiday 🙂
Jodie
What comes to my mind is how God also has experienced broken dreams as His hopes for humanity have been challenged many times by our sins and rejection of His ways. The water reflects the flood and the arched bridge is the rainbow of God’s promise to us that he loves us & has provided yet another way out of a sinful way of life which will also restore us and lead us to a better life/dream. How I also see it is, that dreams need a path to follow but this world, pain, challenges etc can get in the way of our desire or ability to realise that dream. When the dream is broken or can’t continue along an existing path, God will always give us another way to reach that dream (if it is good for us) 🙂
Sheridan Voysey
Thanks for your reflections, Jodie. Great.