“So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.”
I believe it was April of 2005, I was sitting at Starbucks on Mill Ave. listening to music and journaling when suddenly I had the brilliant idea that I wanted to get tattooed. So, I called my good friend Bobby Hess, asked him to meet me at SB and away we went. Rather than researching a shop or going somewhere that had a good reputation, I disregarded both of those and went to the shop that was walking distance. On the way to Living Canvas Tattoo, Bobby asked what I was going to get and I told him, “222″.
There it is… In all of its glory. The guy who did this tattoo had just moved here from somewhere else and had been tattooing for like six years. My guess is that six years really meant six months… He used a single liner, probably a 5 round to do the entire tattoo! The middle “2″ felt like nothing I had ever felt before, I was unaware that there are so many nerves in that part of your wrist. Getting this tattoo was more than just getting a tattoo that night, it was my dedication to expressing myself through the art!
Why this? Well, it is my pursuit. Sexual sin has been my down fall way before I would have classified my actions as sin. Although the verse that inspires this is pretty intense it is so beautiful because it commands that you do not fight the fight of lust and sexual sin as a loner. Flee & Pursue! Flee youthful passion & Pursue righteousness, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Flee.Pursue.Unite!
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