Splendor in the grass

I am innocent, I was just taking the laundry into town and to the post office to mail some letters. I noticed out of the corner of my eye that the sun was streaking through a field of tall grass covered with beautiful dew. I love August, the hot days and cool nights and the magic happens. I’ve seen
beautiful pearls, but none as beautiful as these creations of God. I used to love close-up photography until I met and got to be friends with John Shaw and Cliff Zenor, they were so ridiculously good that I stuck to things I knew how to do well. Later I decided what the heck, I’m not the best I’ve ever seen at anything, so why not have fun with close-ups. Since then I’ve become more and more intrigued with seeing things in this exciting new way.

Vision comes with a relaxed
heart. Being calm, feeling
confident, leads to clearer vision
and tighter perspective. It’s not
a technique, it’s the certainty of
knowing that you do not have
to control anything, you are
no longer under the allusion that
you are in control of any of it.

As I walked through the field,
hundreds of tiny grasshoppers
leaped from one blade of grass
to another, completely unaware
of me, except for the fact that
I was disturbing their world.
That is exactly how much I
matter, and that’s great, can
you imagine how freeing it is
to know that you are nothing,
absolutely nothing, and yet
the Creator of the Universe gave
His only Son just for you.

Is that eye opening or what? It is the most wonderful feeling to know that even though you have done nothing to deserve it, that the Master of the Universe gave His most valuable possession so that you might be saved. As I looked through the lens at these jewels hanging from every blade of
grass I thought how wonderfully beautiful God has made the simplest of all things, and the same God that made the Universe, and every dew drop made me.

Be overwhelmed by His love,

the pilgrim

My apologies to John and Cliff, this is not spectacular close-up work like your, but boy am I having fun and you taught me how to do that…………….