Illustrations About Life

Death to Life

“To most folks, piles of rotting food scraps and decaying yard waste may conjure images of death and decay. But if you think about it,

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A New Chapter

Wright explains life change with this illustration: “When a new world is born, a new way of living goes with it. This is true in

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Handling Death Differently

Loss impacts everyone, and we each manage it a little differently. The children’s show Bluey (season 1, episode 8, “Copycat,” directed by Joe Brumm, aired April 12,

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Human Yoke

How do we take up this easy yoke? Oftentimes, we imagine the yoke used in farming, where it is shared between two animals to ease

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Life Distractions

We all have difficulty seeing what really matters in life. With so many distractions, the things that should be our greatest treasures get overlooked even

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Music of Love

“When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a young man, living with his father Leopold (himself a fine musician) in Vienna, he is said to have played

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We Choose

In the Middle-Earth stories The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, we encounter the story of Gollum. Gollum started out looking and acting like

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Living Water

Is water really living? Yes! In addition to the Bible using “living water” as a metaphor for the life brought about by remaining near water,

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Consistent Practice

If you want to be good at something, you have to practice consistently and frequently. Take someone like Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, for example. Phelps’s

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Time

In the Netflix documentary The Movies that Made Us, in theepisode about Back to the Future, screenwriter Bob Gale has this to say as he

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Biscotti

Biscotti, an Italian cookie frequently enjoyed by plunging it into hot coffee or tea, is harder to make than one might think. It requires two

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Oven Testing

According to an article in Insider about The Great British Baking Show, each oven is tested every day to ensure fairness for each contestant. To

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Cicely Saunders

Cicely Saunders, medical director of St. Christopher’s Hospice in London, “founded the first modern hospice and, more than anybody else, was responsible for establishing the

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Ticket to Ride

In the board game Ticket to Ride, each player selects a path from one city to another and works to build the railroad connecting the

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Empty Promises

Did you ever get what you always wanted just to be let down? Ecclesiastes wants to stress the limitations that pursuing good pleasures will give.

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