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I was taking my friend Beth out for a camera lesson a few years ago and we ended up at Sunset Hill Park in Seattle, and this image just happened in front of us. The light was pretty nice, the boat looked like it was trying to head to the bright spot there, so I set the exposure so it’d show what I wanted to show, and then took the picture.
And it got me thinking…
You know the old story about the fellow wandering down the street at night and sees another fellow on his hands and knees looking for something under a streetlight? The conversation goes something like this…
“What are you looking for?”
“My wallet.”
So they both start looking for awhile and neither finds anything.
Eventually the second fellow says, “So where’d you actually lose the thing? did you lose it here?”
“Oh no, I lost it over there…” (pointing to a dark section of the street)
“You… Lost… it… over there??? – then why are you searching over here?”
“Well… the light’s better here…”
And so… when I saw this image… I found myself thinking about light – and about where we should be looking for things…
And it got me thinking, as it often does, of the flip side of that story… What if there *were* light over there?
See, sometimes we might be in a spot where everything seems to be okay…
And then, sometimes, just sometimes, the Heavens will open up, and God will say, “Hey, Look over there… I have something for you… I’ll light the way – you take the first step…”
And that’s what I thought when I took this photo…
(they say a picture’s worth 1000 words, in this case, it’s around 300)
Here’s the picture – enjoy…
Sometimes you have to go to the bright spots…
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