Ken Libbrecht, professor of physics and a world-renowned expert in the science of snow, is well-known for his stunning photos of snowflakes. How can anyone not believe in a Creator when you look at these photos? And to think that there are no two snowflakes alike! I can hardly grasp that there are no two alike in my yard, let alone in the world. As Ken says in his book, Snowflakes, “[T]he probability of finding two identical specimens is essentially zero, even if you looked at every one ever made.” Take time, the next time it snows, to catch a few on your sleeve and ponder the One who loves you just for who you are, totally unlike anyone else.
Category: Photos
What God can see
One of my favorite screensavers is a collection of photos from outer space taken by the Hubble
Telescope. What is out there, that we can’t see with our naked eye, is utterly beautiful. Besides those I’ve posted here, there are countless others at their website. Now let me tell you the reason I really like looking at these photos: because each one is a reminder of what God can see and I can’t. What that reminds me of is that there is so much going on in my soul, so much that the Spirit of God is doing 
deep in my soul, that is of great beauty, even though I can’t see it. Think about that, will you? And your soul (and mine) is infinitely more beautiful than any of these pictures . . .
Stripped
Look at the beauty of the sunrise this morning.
I have often meditated on winter trees, how I wouldn’t be able to see the beauty of this sunrise unless the trees were completely stripped of their leaves. God is seen so much more clearly through us the more we are stripped of what impedes His Son.
A cheap photo album
I have a small photo album, one of those cheap ones you can get at the dollar store that hold 4×6 inch pictures. A cheap photo album, but like any of yours, probably full of treasures. This particular one doesn’t hold photos of my family (although I do have a few of those). Instead I have collected art prints and words–poetry and prose–that inspire me. It does include one real photo–of my brother Tim’s grave. Otherwise, it’s simply, as I said, art work that inspires me, that speaks to me of the love of God and my love for Him. I use it in prayer regularly, opening it up to this or that page that may strike me at the time. On a couple of facing pages I have placed side by side two pieces of art that you wouldn’t normally place side by side, but doing so makes a strong spiritual point for me. I would like to share some of those with you in this blog, and hopefully doing so will pull you into the love of God. Look at the ones below, for instance. Can you what is similar in both of them . . . before reading what I’ve written below?
The one on the left is obviously of Jesus rescuing Peter as he sank beneath the waves. The one on the right may not be as obvious. This is an icon of Jesus’ descent into hell when He goes to release Adam and Eve. Did you notice in both how Jesus reaches out His hand in both situations to grasp the hand of the other? That is a window into His Heart for each of us. He is always reaching out His hand to each of us in our need, to strongly grasp ours as we reach out for Him.
All it takes is a picture (4)
All it takes is a picture (3)
In the midst of the darkness . . .
All it takes is a picture (2)
Here’s a photo taken by Sr. Kelly from inside a friend’s barn looking out. It makes me think of Lewis’ Last Battle. Looking out from earth to the heaven that is waiting for us.
All it takes is a picture (1)
Some days I find that all it takes is a picture to raise my heart to the Lord. Here’s one I took many years ago when I had the privilege of spending a few days in the Alps:
Witnesses to Hope 