by Dona Hake
Today I have shared an image that I photographed this morning in my front yard. I am part of a photography group in which each day we are assigned a prompt for the day. We are to shoot our perspective on the prompt. Today’s assignment was called “something awesome”. Sometimes I struggle with ideas especially if I have a busy day in which I do not have extra time to allot to this project. Then there are other times that I have so many ideas I cannot decide. This morning after running errands, I was carrying a bunch of things in my front door, and I happened to glance over and see my ornamental cabbage still in full bloom. The colors of this have been amazing, and I think it is pretty awesome that it is still blooming, but that is not what stopped me to look at it closer. The light was shining down on it, and right in the center of the cabbage there was rain water accumulated, and it was glistening like a beautiful diamond. I thought to myself, “Now that is awesome!!”
This also made me ponder and meditate on how God has made the smallest of things so very beautiful. If you take the time to stop and really look, you can see His hand all around you. I think it is awesome that God can take a whole bunch of raindrops and let them accumulate in the center of a flower, and shine His sun upon it, and make it glisten so beautifully.
You see…many times we only classify awesomeness with the big things or the spectacular, but God is in the big and in the small.
Psalm 104:24 AMP
“O Lord, how many and varied are Your works! In wisdom
You have made them all; The earth is full of Your riches and Your creatures.”
The Lord deals with me often about keeping things simple and not over complicating things. We all have different responsibilities that we must attend to each day, but let us be careful that we guard our time that we do not have time to slow down and appreciate the simplest of blessings. His riches are all around us, let us give thanks to Him for His many and varied works!