Time and Place: Say a little prayer for you
September 1, 2009 at 11:32 pm by TL Pixley in Photography
I took this picture Sunday morning, Aug. 30, as I was heading for a walk with my friend on a trail near the Chattahoochee River. A group of people was gathered by the riverbank. As we walked closer we saw people being dipped into the river and then pulled out. They were being baptized. At the river’s edge, people gathered around those who had been baptized, talking about them and praying over them. Joseph Harmon (center) was one of the people who had been baptized. Joseph is 14 years old and in eighth grade. “At that moment,” he explained to me after looking at this picture, “it felt like everybody was concentrating on me and praying for me. It felt kind of awkward, just how everyone was praying over me. I didn’t know what to think. It was kind of breathtaking.”
(Photo and text by Joeff Davis)
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