This is a reasonably well-composed photo. The horizon is off center, the human figures give perspective, and there’s a sense of depth. What makes it one of my favorite photos is the time of day. A few years ago, just before sunset, I’d stepped onto the beach at Seaside, Florida.
The light grabbed me. Sometimes that golden hour just before sunset or just after sunrise throws a yellow light, but here, the light was pink and blue. I often keep that photo on my computer desktop in the middle of the Midwestern winter.
I walked this morning in the early light. The brick courthouse glowed and the leafless trees sparkled. The warm light touched even piles of rubbish with beauty.
“I am the light of the world,” Jesus says. (John 8:12) Some of us think we live a good life. Others feel like a pile of rubbish. In either case, it’s Jesus’ light that makes a good life great or an ugly life beautiful. He makes the difference.
Jesus, let your light shine, on all of us.
- Coming: Elisabeth Corcoran, author of He Is Just That into You (Winepress, 2009), will join us here on her blog tour with a guest post on December 4.