I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. It was a chilly morning in early November when I took this image of a tree at Cherokee Dam. It reminded me of another day I that I had taken a picture of a tree at the dam, an even colder Sunday afternoon, January 7, 2012. I had just bought my new camera, my first DSLR, to take pictures at my son’s wedding. I had always had a camera, even a digital camera, but this one was different. Unlike my previous cameras that worked mostly in “automatic” mode this one had all kinds of options. I decided that if I had a camera with this many possibilities I needed to learn to use them. I had no idea that this was the beginning of a journey to places I had never planned or expected to go.
When I look back on that day, now 10 years ago, I don’t think it was a coincidence that it happened in the season of Epiphany. My camera has been a gift that God has used to help me develop a new and deeper perspective of His world and His word. While learning to use my camera, I also found new writers like N. T. Wright, Diana Butler Bass, Scot McKnight, Michael Card, Nancy Guthrie, Makoto Fujimura, and Tim Mackie and Jon Collins of the Bible Project who have opened up a whole new way of reading the Scriptures. I give thanks with all my heart for the epiphany that God has given me through my camera and the resources he has put in my way. I pray that my images and words tell of God’s wonderful deeds. What has God used in your life to bring an epiphany, a new way of seeing who He is? Prayer Lord God I give thanks to you with all my heart for the beauty of your world and your word. Amen
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