My mind is held this time of year. Yet, it's not the amazing Fall colours painting the landscape or the clouded mountains across the Straight, it's also the subtle dances and images on hidden waters.
There are countless shots of beauty. Yet, if you look a little more closely you'll see beauty's reflection on water in the shaded areas of dense forest. Depending on the sun's height, these reflections may appear to lay across the water or they may go straight into the water. Small pools in streams are choice because you can walk around them and find that just-right angle that will display these hidden-gem images.
I am drawn to the unknown and changing quality to them. A tiny ripple from a breeze will cast a different view, and they alter as quickly as the slightest unseen movement of the sun. A picture of them will rarely turn out as intended.
They remind me to tune into God and his movement and action in the - often - subtle and small, similary hidden spaces of life. The excitement on my child's face as he helps carve a pumpkin, his anticipation of a granola bar, the warmth of a fire, a clean pair of pants. All the things I take for granted or overlook in my search of bigger plans and better things.
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