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\u2019ve seen
\nbeautiful 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\u2019m not the best I\u2019ve ever seen at anything, so why not have fun with close-ups. Since then I\u2019ve become more and more intrigued with seeing things in this exciting new way. <\/p>\n
Vision comes with a relaxed
\nheart. Being calm, feeling
\nconfident, leads to clearer vision
\nand tighter perspective. It\u2019s not
\na technique, it\u2019s the certainty of
\nknowing that you do not have
\nto control anything, you are
\nno longer under the allusion that
\nyou are in control of any of it.<\/p>\n
As I walked through the field,
\nhundreds of tiny grasshoppers
\nleaped from one blade of grass
\nto another, completely unaware
\nof me, except for the fact that
\nI was disturbing their world.
\nThat is exactly how much I
\nmatter, and that\u2019s great, can
\nyou imagine how freeing it is
\nto know that you are nothing,
\nabsolutely nothing, and yet
\nthe Creator of the Universe gave
\nHis only Son just for you.<\/p>\n
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
\ngrass 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.<\/p>\n
Be overwhelmed by His love,<\/p>\n
the pilgrim<\/p>\n
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…………….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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