Still Photography

If love is in your heart then everything that you do will be in the name of love. If there is peace in your spirit then everywhere you go there will be peace. I pray that you are in a place where peace and love abound. I pray that you are in a place where there is understanding and love. If you are in a place where the presence of peace, love, and understanding cannot be felt, then I pray that God will place enough of those things in you that you can bring about significant change, and the presence of God will be undeniable.

Good day to you all! There is something in your heart that needs to come out today! Do not allow another day to pass with an unforgiving, grudge holding spirit stuck in you because the space that is being occupied by that spirit could be of greater use to God! Let it go!

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” Psalm 46:10

In order to expand my horizons I have taken up the hobby of photography. Being totally new to the hobby my first question was how do those professional photographers know what pictures to take. I have seen so many great photographs, and it seems like the person taking them was in the right place at the right time. I have seen photo’s of flowers and lightning strikes that were so striking and beautiful, it looked as though it was a photo shoot set up by God Himself. So then I decided to pick up my camera and try it myself. Let me tell you what I learned. I learned that there is beauty in stillness. When we look at a bird flying we are able to catch glimpses of what that bird looks like, but when you see that bird in a still photo, your eye gets a chance to take in all of the shades of colors and the majesty of this creature. You get a chance to see the intricacies of the feathers, and the delicateness of the flight. When you get to look at enough still photographs you start to understand that God put beauty is in the details.

Dear Reader, on this day, I want you to know that you are beautiful, and there is beauty all around you. I want you to know on this day that sometimes you just need to be still. Often times we miss the beauty that God has put in us and around us because we are moving too fast. I am not telling you that you should slow down, I am tell you that you should be still. In your stillness you can examine the beauty of the world around you. In your stillness you can examine the beauty that is in you. I know that we have schedules and places to be, but often times our rush to get from one place to another often puts us in a position where we miss out on a lot of what God has for us. This is the day that the Lord has made, but it’s had to rejoice and be glad in it if we are unaware of our surroundings. Take a snapshot of your day and you will be amazed at how rich and beautiful the details of the day really are. If you take a snapshot of your day you will even see that there is beauty in a storm. We live in a Polaroid instant photo world where if picture doesn’t develop fast enough we have a tendency to want to shake it up ourselves. The Polaroid company has said for years that shaking the pictures does not help the pictures develop any faster. God has been telling us for the longest time that His timing is not our timing and trying to shake up the things in our life is not helping at all. We need to be still. Love the details, and embrace the details. God has put so much beauty in you and around you Dear Reader, all you have to do is take a few moments each day and be still. God put beauty in your details, it would be a shame if you were to miss them.

You are beautiful, loved, and blessed

John Reed