Last week I posted a rather lengthy reflection with several photographs I took in our yard. I tagged my pals Steve Nelson of Everything Estaban, and Maria Johnson at Another Cup of Coffee about it on Facebook because they are both camera geeks.
Since then, Steve has announced a link up using photography and Catholic themes: aka the Catholic Photo Challenge. I don’t know if I can participate every week, but I’ve got one below. Here’s the gist of the challenge if you wish to participate:
1. Create a post on your blog with the photo that represents your interpretation of the current Catholic Photo Challenge.
2. Click on the button at Steve’s blog that says “Add your link”, for example, the one on this page at Everything Estaban for week #1.
3. Paste the URL to your specific post with the photo, not the main URL of your blog.
4. Include a link back to here in your post.
5. Come back to this page and see what others have posted.
Questions? Email photo@everythingesteban.com
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Theme: Seeing God in the Works of Nature
You’re looking at the petals of our flowering pear tree. This is an iPhone4 zoom into a single blossom. I love that you can notice the pollen and the delicate veins of each petal. You can almost feel the life of that flower as you observe the dew drops on it.
God sees us this way — up close and detailed. Intimate. He sees into us, the stuff that’s below the surface… where the real drops of life reside. Yet, we are part of beautiful whole of creation. We might be tempted to think that we might be overlooked when you imagine us amid all the other blossoms out there… like this wider shot of the pear tree:
But no. We are not lost. We are not overlooked. We are unique, just as the blossom’s position and veins and hairs make that it unique. God loves us and knows us intimately. He breathes life into every thing he has made, from least to greatest. From majesty of the steadfast mountains and fathomed oceans and the vast cosmos… to the littlest blossom that lives for just a few weeks and then falls to earth. It is His delight.
Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
But if God so clothes the grass which is alive in the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you…-Luke 12: 27-28-
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Oh how I love dogwood blooms! My grandparents had a beautiful tree in their yard and I’m always reminded of them. I love spring and the sense of rebirth and possibility it brings.
They do look kinda like dogwood blossoms. But these are pear tree blossoms. But I’m totally with you, Steve, on the renewal and joy that the gift of spring brings. I soooo need it!