Good morning…
I have been living the lyrics of an old song all summer long: “God, if a picture paints a thousand words then why can’t I paint You?”
Feeling drawn to the possibility of adding pictures to our everyday blog, I asked a photographer friend where to begin. She suggested two options. I could buy the latest iPhone with it’s amazing camera or I could borrow a point-and-shoot camera she had bought but rarely used. Choosing her latter suggestion, borrow it I did and borrow it I loved.
I snapped pictures on vacation. Lake. Sky. Flowers. I took photos in the mountains. Sun. Vistas. Butterflies. At home, I saw God everywhere. Dogs. People. Trees. I began to click-and-capture divine fingerprints in the midst of ordinary days. I took over three thousand pictures over the summer months, and with every photo I saw a new, fascinating facet of our living LORD. If each one of these pictures paints us one thousand words and we include them daily in our blog, will we eventually paint God?
Absolutely not, and here is why: The heavens keep telling the wonders of God, and the skies declare what he has done. Each day informs the following day; each night announces to the next. They don’t speak a word, and there is never the sound of a voice. Yet their message reaches all the earth, and it travels around the world (Psalm 19:1-4a, CEV).
The heavens keep telling God-wonders. Skies will always declare what our Creator has done. Each day is informative. Each night makes announcements. Without a sound, God’s message continues to reach all of the earth, traveling around the world, day after day.
I am so very grateful for our intimate relationship with the God whose personal portrait we will never finish painting.
…Sue…
P.S. By the way, I ended up purchasing my friend’s used point-and-shoot with the gratitude gifts you gave. Because of your generosity, she bought a new high-tech lens which will enhance her photography ministry and now we have pictures to wake us every morning, quietly revealing more and more glimpses of our good, great, gracious God. Thank you for expanding with me God’s message in our world.
