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Its Springtime again!




This afternoon, I walked out the back door and into a wonderful spring breeze. I briskly walked to our new orchard, alive with eight trees. One for each member of the family. I remember how my sisters and I had planted the young saplings a few weeks earlier. Orient Pear, Elberta Peach, Bradford Pear, I can already imagine juicy fruit hanging from the branches, ripe for the picking. The warm sun glows behind pink blossoms, as I delightedly snap photo after photo.
Pictures of beauty. Pictures of perfect wonderfulness. Spring- such an invigorating season, delighting the senses with fresh sights and delicious fragrances, almost forgotten entirely under a haze of winter dreariness. Dried grass musters up hope and starts to add green to the slowly developing landscape. Daffodils raise their sunny heads to the sky, radiating zest and joy.
Imagine a world in black and white... with no seasons, no variables in creation's growth to quicken the soul and spirit towards new beginnings and courageous goals. Imagine a world flat and barren, no gently rolling hills or sharply plunging mountains, no fields of waving wheat, no trees of great stature dwarfing man and beast. What a sad world that would be! But we have a colorful, awe-inspiring, ever changing world. Designed and nurtured by an Awesome Creator-God. Life always changes as well. Nothing stays the same for long. In the midst of alI this change and turmoil, I take comfort in the fact that the Master Artist planned the blueprint of the world. He looked at what He had made and declared, "It is very good." Then He rested on the seventh day.
Photography is in essence, capturing a variance of light reflected in the subject. So also we should reflect our Maker and Creator. Do our lives evidence any of His qualities?
"Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day."
~Genesis 1:14-19

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