Four Stages of Life on This Earth
Our Voyage of Walking With God Psalm 139 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. (Psalm 139:1-3) There is a voyage of life seriese done by a famous American artist Thomas Cole back in the 1800's depicting the four stages of human life. Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and Old Age, the one traveling that route, is doing so by boat on the river of life. Traveling through a wilderness. As the voyager goes on his way, the paintings show that he is accompanied by an angel. one of each of the four paintings depict the seasons of the year, conveying the story of the voyage of life here on earth. In the first picture, the one of childhood a baby floats out of a dark cave depicting birth from the mothers womb in to a bright new and exciting future in the world. The second depicts a youth, a young person now guiding the boat himself tak...