A picture, looked at from a different perspective A friend of mine took a picture of a flock of migratory birds in the trees in south Louisiana the other day. Her daughter pointed out the flock, and my friend took the picture of the simple beauty of the flock covering the trees, nearly every roost taken. It was, and is, a beautiful picture, a capturing in time of a specific time in nature. There are different perspectives to see this same picture from. Because it is a migratory flock, a specific time of year is the only time a shot like this can be taken, and, in order to capture it, someone has to be present at that specific time of year, and in that specific place where the birds flocked to, as well as to be equipped at that time and place with a device to take the photo. So, the picture captures an event, but all these other events have to occur for the picture to become a beautiful reality. Seeing how all these events converge on that one place, at that one time, to make the picture a reality can be seen as being nearly as beautiful as the photograph itself, or they can be seen as being completely inconsequential. Thatll depend on where ones spiritual feelings originate. The photograph depicts trees, which science cannot provide logical and conclusive proof as to how and what the trees originated from. Science cannot create a hypotheses even that is backed with enough logic and/or deductive reasoning to account for the existence of the trees. Sure, we know how to grow them, strictly learned from our own powers of observation, but we cannot say how they came to be. Therefore, the ONLY logical answer is The Holy Bible is correct, that God crested the Heavens and the Earth, and all the universe as well as all that is in it. So, the birds then, are the same. God created them, science cannot prove otherwise, and no other explanation has ever been offered. What about my friends daughter, who noticed the birds in the trees in the first place and called her mothers attention to them, who then took this picture? Same thing. Through our powers of observation, we know how to make babies just as we know how to grow trees, but, once again, God was responsible for creating the daughter in His image, and responsible for showing the daughter the beauty of the migration that had the daughter call her mothers attention to that beauty so the mother would take the picture she has shared with us. What about mom, my friend that took the picture? Obviously, the same holds true for her as her daughter, just a generation removed from her daughter. However, other forces are in play here, too. What if my friend hadnt taught her daughter to be observant of natural beauty? What if my friend hadnt nurtured her daughter at all? Even more remotely, what if my friend and I had never met? After all, it may be possible that I played a role in the event of this beautiful picture being captured for no other reason than my friend wanted to show me an attraction in that area while I was visiting. While I played no role in the picture, or its taking, it could be that my friends desire to show me the attraction was her only reason for being in that spot, at that time, on that day. Would the birds be there if I had visited a week or two later, or a week or two earlier? Would the trees still be there even? Would my friend have gone there if I had not visited? Myself, the same as my friend and her daughter. Sure, mom and dad knew how to go about making me, but it was Gods will that I actually be created, just like my friend and her daughter were. But, what about us even becoming friends? How does that happen? If you ask your scientists for an explanation for this, it is strictly by chance. We met completely at random, and for no reason any scientist can give, we became friends. The problem with the explanation is that the definition of science is the absolute proof of existence or the absolute disproof that something can exist. By its own definition, science is unable to explain any of that chance meeting, or why we became friends, because science itself is invalid and of no use if it cannot prove or disprove absolutely. In other words, there is only one scientific way to arrive at any conclusion: rule everything in that applies, rule everything out that applies to whatever hypothesis you are studying. When you arrive at one or the other, if EVERYTHING applies to your analysis, then it is an absolute, and its true. If ANYTHING does not apply, then your analysis is false. So, for no other logical explanation then, God chose for us to meet, God chose for us to become friends, and God gave us the traits we both have to appreciate His nature that my friend wanted for me to see the attraction we went to, and it was that appreciation we both have, for Gods nature, and our wonder of Him that He is capable of providing us with the opportunity to see Him in action, that brought her to that place, at that time, and brought the birds to those trees, at that time, from wherever they were migrating from, that ultimately allowed her to capture the moment in time of those birds in those trees, in all of the beauty that God put RIGHT THERE for her to see. Accepting that, it becomes apparent that I had NO role in this. My friends daughter had NO role. The trees had NO role. The birds themselves had NO role. Gods plan put ALL these variables together, at that moment, as well as my friends presence, with her phone and her desire to get the picture of Gods natural beauty, as He Himself played it for her, that allowed her to snap the picture. And, seen through that lens, one would have to also take the time to see that this picture also shows us Gods love. After all, the birds are from somewhere else, they were a migratory flock. Someone up north of where the picture was taken couldve enjoyed the natural beauty of that entire flock as well as my friend and her daughter did. And, someone up north probably DOES enjoy them during the summer months. But, for this brief moment, God wanted us to enjoy and appreciate this flock, so He sent them to us at the same time that He sent us to them. Only He can allow those trees to be there, and they may not be next year when that flock migrates south again. They may only have been there for this picture. Next month, God may take those trees by lightning, or flood, or tornado, or whatever, because they have served His purpose of providing His child, my friend, with her opportunity to capture the beautiful picture she did. Looking at a picture such as this, so many more levels open themselves, if we only take the time to look. In this case, simply recognizing the true natural beauty my friend photographed, provides an insight into our creator, God, that He wants us to see about Him, that He loves us enough to provide us with these natural plays for our enjoyment, and He will gladly write as many acts to His play as we care to watch. We just need to be observant enough to see that beauty, regardless of what perspective we choose to look at it from. I freely admit that I have always been more of an observer than a participant, and thats true of nature as well as people. Try it sometime, itll surprise you how much you are missing. Which brings another perspective to this picture. Who gave us the ability to observe, and to retain what we observe? Science is equally incapable of explaining that. And yet, science, truthfully applied, depends on that power. Logical reasoning can only make one conclusion as to where this ability, this power, came from, and that is that it has to come from God. No other species has the same capability. No other species can even be proven to have the ability to think logically, including apes, so evolutionist science is debunked too. So, observation, and our power to apply it, becomes still another perspective that can be seen, just from this photo of natural beauty. Because we must be observant in order to see anything at all in a picture, any picture. If we do not pay a picture some attention, then we see nothing, just as if we do not pay passerbys on the street some attention, then we do not recognize they are even there. So, the picture even goes so far as to prove that God gives us the ability to socialize with others, and to love them as He loves us. As an interesting aside to this, I have a note on Face Book Ive written and posted that love is a tree. It wasnt a particularly eloquent writing of mine, and for many who today spend more time with their nose in their smart phones than actually interacting with other human beings, it was probably a pretty stupid essay. I bring it up here in this essay, which will be equally stupid to the smart-phoners simply because they no longer have communication skills, but I bring it up here because my friends picture illustrates that essay, also. And it does so on a level I wasnt even considering when I wrote that one. God manifests Himself in this picture my friend took, there is no doubt about that. And, the picture itself, being a moment in time at a certain location, is itself evidence that God doesnt only manifest Himself in this particular picture, He is in EVERY picture simply because He is everywhere. If you do doubt that observation then heres your chance to prove me wrong and to prove God wrong at the same time: Ask any scientist, any evolutionist, any nonbeliever to PROVE, conclusively, otherwise. They simply cannot. A wonderful picture taken by a wonderful friend, both the friend and the scene provided by the most wonderful God. When we look at this picture, or any picture for that matter, do we really take the time to see everything? In this case, do we really see those birds, do we thank God for them? Do we see those trees and thank God for them? Do we truly understand that if my friends daughter hadnt pointed out the migratory flock, that this image may never have been captured? Do we take the time to thank God for her? If the mother hadnt recognized the beauty of that moment and taken the shot, we would never have had the chance to see it ourselves. Do we take the time to thank God for my friend, then? Do we take the time to thank God for giving her the ability TO recognize His beauty and capture it for the rest of us? Do we think to thank God for the circumstances that put all of us in that spot at just the right time so the photograph could be taken? And, do we thank God for giving us the power and ability of observation to see for ourselves, that so many other things not even in the frame of the picture absolutely have to have happened, or absolutely have to have been at that location for us to enjoy the beauty that God shared with my friend, she recognized that beauty, photographed it, and shared it with the rest of us? We should remember this and remember to thank God, not just as an aside, but for anything and everything He provides us. He loves us that much, would it hurt us so much to simply tell Him we love Him for loving us, and for loving us enough to give us everything we have, everything we can enjoy?
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:22:14 +0000