The doors in Yemen are exquisite - despite their age, you could probably hang them in modern art gallery around the world.I took this photo in about July 2004. I had been walking with my dad through a labyrinth of winding passageways within the ancient city of Babel' Yemen when I came across this particular door.
As we looked closer we noticed that there was actually a white horse locked away inside (so hidden that friends still battle to see once pointed out). No-one around for miles and no evidence of anyone having been around either. I spoke to the horse for a bit in broken Arabic, took a photo and continued on my adventure.
I'm not a ‘horsy-person’ but I’ve always wondered about that solitary white horse locked away in the middle of nowhere...my heart had been broken by he's sad eyes. I wondered what happened to him and if he was still alive.
It is common to have camels working in mills on the ground floor of peoples homes (after all that is where the livestock sleep at night). These camels were often taken in to work as foals and are no longer able to fit back out through the small doorway... so they just live in these little dingy, cramped, cave-like rooms.A couple years later I was looking online at pics taken in Yemen and stumbled across this one taken at the end of 2006 by a Frenchman named Yves Lambert.
Once I gathered my composure, I was filled with the overwhelming realization that God had orchestrated all of that just to communicate something to me. That this photographer had been to that exact door (literally in the middle of nowhere) at the most precise timing...and then followed through by posting his image online for me to find.
When I told my mom, her response was that she felt it was a very significant picture for the end times church. I'm not sure if I’d take it that far but its definitely prophetically significant in my own life...and especially that I'm only now uploading this for the world to see. Considerably sizable in my life right now actually...
