#sorrow
With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! —Psalm 119:10
One of my favorite classic hymns is “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” which was written in 1757 by 22-year-old Robert Robinson. In the hymn’s lyrics is a line that always captures my attention and forces me to do some self-evaluation. The line says, “Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love.” I feel that way sometimes. Too often I find myself distracted and drifting, instead of having my heart and mind focused on the Savior who loves me and gave Himself for me. Robert Robinson and I are not alone in this.
In those seasons of wandering, our heart of hearts doesn’t want to drift from God—but, like Paul, we often do what we don’t want to do (Rom. 7:19), and we desperately need to turn back to the Shepherd of our heart who can draw us to Himself. David wrote of this struggle in His great anthem to the Scriptures, Psalm 119, saying, “With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!” (v.10).
Sometimes, even when our hearts long to seek God, the distractions of life can draw us away from Him and His Word. How grateful we can be for a patient, compassionate heavenly Father whose grace is always sufficient—even when we are prone to wander! —Bill Crowder
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above. —Robinson
Our tendency to wander is matched by God’s willingness to pursue.
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Dark Autumn Hall.
Models - Asya & Uki.
Natalie Ina Photography.
October 2019.
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Memories of Autumn dreams among the bloody leaves and dark dreams…
Model - Mari Gohberg.
Natalie Ina Photography 2019.
NewInstagram.
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The Palor of October souls.
Models - Asya & Uki.
Natalie Ina Photography.
October 2020.
NewInstagram.
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Mistress of the dark autumn forest.
Model - Kira Onuchina.
Natalie Ina Photography.
October 2019.
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The Warrior of Autumn.
Model - Margarita Jarvinen.
Natalie Ina Photography.
September 2019.
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Autumn Melancholy.
Model - Katerina Agapova.
Natalie Ina Photography.
October 2020.
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The mourner of Autumn.
Model - Mari Gohberg.
Natalie Ina Photography 2019.
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Melancholy Illness.
Model - Inna Malygina.
Natalie Ina Photography.
May 2021.
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Crowned Silence.
Model - Margarita Jarvinen.
Crown by Decrowcraft.
Natalie Ina Photography.
April 2021.
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I am the shadow of a forest lake, whose waters wash the grey shores of sorrow. My half-sisters are drowned, their souls dissolving in the muddy water, wandering behind me on gray cloudy evenings, trying to grab the hem of my dress. I am a shadow without voice, without name, without age and memory of the past. Sometimes in the monochrome ripples of the water I could read the words, in its hieroglyphs of shadows and reflections, the words spoken before the Exodus, before the inevitable death, the words of the doomed. At such moments, like a cold stone snake penetrated into my heart, and pain fettered all my inside. I tried to erase the words with the darkness that enveloped me, but in vain. My tears could not erase the pain that soaked the waters of this lake. I was just a shadow, one that couldn’t change the flow of time and the flow of water. I could only watch. Then, overcoming a shiver, I lay down on the water and looked into the gray sky, hidden by a veil of clouds that were so inaccessible, and it seemed to me in them, as in this lake, there is the same shadow that could only feel the coldness of this lake of tears.
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The Shadow of Forest Lake.
Self-portrait.
Collaboration with From Beyond Dolls.
Natalie Ina Photography.
June 2019.
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