By Susan Shanklin

I’ve come into the modern age. I am the very proud owner of a smart phone! To be more exact, a proud owner of an Apple iPhone.

The phone is pink but looks more like tangerine with a clear cover case with all the bells and whistles. A person can download apps to run, rule or ruin one’s life. So, I just have a few apps or applications to make my life easier and well adjusted.

Very important apps—like The Weather Channel, Bible, Candy Crush, and Pinterest!

Now, one of the other features of this “PHONE” (seeing that I use it very little in that respect!) is the camera.

With the touch of my finger, I tap the little icon of a mini camera and I’m ready to capture the world around me.  I can video tape, time lapse, square, or panorama my subjects.

But the best of all, I can turn the camera focus around and take a SELFIE! I can be in any picture I want.

I can be anywhere, stand next to anything and boldly hold the iPhone stretched out in front of me and CLICK a selfie.

The President of the United States has been in personal selfies and so has the Queen of England! But the interesting thing about the Queen of England’s selfie is that the picture taker was not including HER in the picture, but the Queen just kind of leaned into the picture, smiled, and there you have a very famous face in your personal picture selfie.

These selfies by accident that include very famous people pop up on the internet all the time.  Not me so much.  But it got me to thinking about how I might conduct myself if Jesus was leaning in, smiling, on one of my selfies.

Would I want Jesus to be in every picture I took? Would He be smiling in every selfie I took?

I like to take selfies of my grand-daughters sleeping in my arms to prove to their mothers that, yes, they do take naps for me—at least in my arms, that is. I like to see Jesus in between my grand babies and me. Always present. Always watching.

I like to take selfies at women’s meetings. I see Jesus leaning between the lady I prayed for that was diagnosed with breast cancer. He is always present with her. Always watching over her.

Tom likes to take selfies of he and I together in a park or walking around our little farm.  I want to see Jesus leaning in on those photos, too. Always present. Always watching.

It’s a good thing that Jesus is always present, always watching.

Click away!