#pass through

“Remember Lot’s wife.”

Jesus drops this in the middle of today’s Gospel.

It sounds random. But it’s actually the whole point.

Because whether we’re looking at how it all ends (which is what Jesus is talking about) or how things are going on a Friday in November, there’s something you and I need to know. And it starts with Lot’s wife.

“Remember Lot’s wife.”

It’s a callback to Genesis, to the only thing we know about Lot’s wife,

“But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.”

Lot and his family are fleeing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Angel of the Lord tells them,

“Don’t look back! Don’t stop anywhere on the way!”

Don’t look back at what’s burning down. Don’t look back at what God is finished with. Don’t look back at what God is delivering you from.

Look to where God is taking you. Don’t stop until you get there.

But Lot’s wife stopped. She looked back. And she became a pillar of salt.

No, this isn’t the arbitrary punishment of a petty God.

It’s just the natural consequence of stopping and staying – in a place you were only meant to pass through.

Lot’s wife stopped and stayed. In a place she was only meant to pass through.

Because she stopped and stayed – in a place where she was never meant to stay – she got stuck. She calcified.

It’s the same for you and me.

No matter what’s going on in our lives right now. Whether we’re in one of the hardest moments of our lives or things are okay right now, we’re just passing through.

You and I were not meant to stop and stay here.

God has so much more in store for us.

But if we stop and stay here – in a place where we were never meant to stay – we will get stuck here. We’ll calcify.

And we’ll miss out on God’s best, on all that God has planned for us.

Built in 1987. Sane floor plan as cell block E. Total 55,200 square feet.

Two wings. One control center.

Nice they included skylights. Cell block J has none.

About 65 cells in each wing.

Note the small pass through opening. No cuffing prisoners through this little slot. No food trays either.

Pass Through only applies to layer folders. 

With the folder blending mode set to Pass Through, layers inside the folder blend with layers outside the folder, as if there were no folder. 

If the folder is in any other blending mode, blending modes for layers inside the folder only apply to other layers inside the folder, and blending with layers outside the folder is done using the folder’s blending mode, not the layer’s.

For example, in the example below the red and green rectangles are in separate layers in a folder. The red layer is set to Normal, the green to Color. The shaded circles (spheres) are normal layers below the folders.

On the left the folder is set to Pass Through. The red Normal layer does not show the sphere below. The green affects both the red layer and the sphere using its own Color blending mode..

On the right the folder is set to Multiply. The green layer affects the red layer using the Color blending mode, but both layers then affect the sphere using the folder’s Multiply mode, not their own layer modes.

Overlay retains the highlights and shadows of the layer below, but mixes the colour. The colours mix, it is not a colour replacement, so some colours might be emphasised. Overlay is a mix of Multiply (on darker pixels/areas) or Screen (on lighter pixels/areas) blending modes, depending on the base colour, so your image will increase in contrast as well as mixing colours. 

In digital art, it is useful for colouring greyscale art. (The red Overlay layer is clipped to the sphere)

Multiply is good for darkening, adding shading, toning down or darkening white or light areas. For digital art, it is excellent for adding shading or shadows to your flat painted colours. The Multiply layers are clipped to their spheres.