Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. After many months of not going to the mountains, we slipped away to the cove this week. We went late in the day and easily social distanced from everyone. I went directly to the great oak tree at the Lawson place. It was still there, a symbol of strength and perseverance for me. I set up my tripod and waited for sunset. I have taken so many pictures of this tree, yet each time I go I learn something new about photography and about God.
One definition of a master is someone who has practiced the same art for many years and has developed a web of connections that she uses without thinking. It takes time, there is no shortcut; and the greater the time the greater the knowledge and joy of creating. As you can see from the image, I still have some growing to do. I was discouraged when I saw the images on my computer and realized what settings I could have changed to make the picture I wanted. Yet I will still go back again, I hope many more times, and use what I learn each time to get closer to an image that captures the way I feel when I look at this tree. This experience made me think about reading the Bible. It is sometimes so hard to understand. It is easy to get discouraged and just read the same favorite verses again skipping the hard passages. But I don’t want the Bible to become a collection of favorite verses. I want to learn from the hard verses. I want God's word to be so present in my life that it influences everything I do. It will take time and I will have to “meditate on it all day long.” The Bible is designed for a lifetime of reading and re-reading. It is in all the re-reading that you make connections between the passages and stories that you have read. And it is the rich connections that you make that weaves the lessons of God’s love in the Bible throughout every thing you do. Prayer Author, Creator God Thank you for making your Word so amazing, intricate, and beautiful. Give us the perseverance to keep reading again and again each time learning more of you so that it influences everything we do. Amen
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