We had high expectations since we had seen Rashmi’s previous photography. But even with such high expecations, we knew that it was truly special the instant we saw it. Yet like most great things, it gets better with time. Much, much better.

I’m referring to the picture that serves figuratively as our family’s current theme and literally as the background image for this website.

We have the same picture on 20″x30″ canvas hanging above the fire place in our living room. Every now and then, I sit on the sofa to look at that picture. I love staring at that picture! God has a tendency to reassure, move and speak to me through it. I’m sure that God spoke to me while I was looking at it a few days ago; “Neither you nor Lana could actually see that picture when Rashmi took it. But I saw it. Isn’t it amazing?”

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How many times do I stroll through life and think I see what’s going on around me yet come to realize that I am way off? How often am I so sure that something is the way I think it is, the way I see it or the way I imagine it? How many times am I dead wrong?

Something bigger and better is going on in us, through us and all around us. Yet I am too blind to see most of it. Lord, give me eyes to see not just a beautiful picture but also the wonder and beauty of your whole creation surrounding me.

Heavenly Father, please help me to see as You see! (Psalm 146:8, Isaiah 42:16)