Estrid,
I would like to apologize for being rude. Will you forgive me?
I have never received a response from the site who posted it, and from thumbing through their other pics I've been able to see what you are saying, including the pics I posted here.
Gotta say I'm kinda bummed, because their other pics are just as awesome. I'm thinking that maybe God's point is that no matter how beautiful something appears in this life, we can be deceived if we are unable to see deeper, into the heart, where only God can see.
Can't help it, I just had to pray that ALL of us will one day see His new earth without any need on our part to improve upon it. And best of all see Him for Who He really is.
The Good News is that we can see Him now, through the image of His Son, Jesus Christ.
God bless!
No need to apologize, tho the thought was well made
and happily accepted. Skip the god bless bit, tho, svp.
I don't believe in any god tho if I did, surely not
one who strews our path with little "lessons".
If there's a lesson there, it's not the one you speak of.
Try this-
Beware of just seeing what you want to see. You can indeed be deceived, you, most easily. By yourself.
Don't be so proud and sure of yourself that you reject
without a thought what another says.
Just might be, too, that making your own sentimentalized
ideas of art into something of and from "god" is to break
the commandment against taking " His" name in vain?
From my home in Repulse Bay in Hong Kong, I can watch the sun rise over the wide Pacific ocean.
It's a spiritual thing for me.
But, I believe, very very different from what you speak of .
I won't try to describe it, but, imo, those who interpose
the imagined motives of some non existent god between themselves and the reality of what is before them are in
fact quite blind to what they see, rejoicing only in their own
imaginarion.