The 40 day photo challenge: Day 3

Photo 3:

The Everyday Ordinary

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty."

Psalm 91:1

Recently my roomate and I decided we needed a chalkboard on our wall to write messages to each other. This week she wrote psalm 91:1 across the top of the board. I took this picture, not because I intended to use it as my "photograph of the day" but because I have a little bit of a fetish with photographing words. I assumed that the photograph was black and white (being the colors of the board and chalk) but after uploading it to my computer I realized that the sun glaring on the board added a strange green tint. Earlier today Bethany encouraged me with an email in which she quoted a recent conversation with a photography friend of hers..."you stated that you have to look for beauty because of your unchanging environment and im saying you dont have to look very far." After reading this, it was like a lightbulb went off in my brain (if someone had been photographing me at that moment I am positive a glowing orb of light around by head would have been captured on the film). What is this strange feeling of satisfaction and deep joy that is increasing inside of me? Could photographing my everyday mundane environment really be growing my appreciation and love for life itself? Never have I been so excited to step out in tomorrow and discover what new revelation awaits me. Never have I been so excited to live in THIS window of time, here in Wilmore, Ky. Never has God spoken so clearly in the everyday, unchanging environment I find myself in. Or maybe I just never stopped visualizing the future, to hear him in the present. I often think I need to some how lift myself up to meet with God, that I have to try and take myself to his level. Theres such joy in letting go and letting him meet me at mine. (cause my finite mind cant understand an infinite God anyway) Truth is, I dont have to look very far to find God, he's already found me and he's gracious enough to give my little mind glimpses into his unending uncomprehendable one. Whats even crazier than that is that I can actually understand his mind, because I now have the mind of Christ. I really dont have to look very far to find beauty, its all around me. Even what appeared to be a simple black and white photograph of a chalkboard contained a beautiful arrangement of colors. Why? Because light was cast on it. Okay, thats another really cool concept that I'll have to externally process later.