Day twenty-two: love

In my pastor's sermon yesterday, he mentioned a photographer named Dewitt Jones, who had read, "What are you willing to die for? Because you are doing that right now." (You can read the whole article here).

These two sentences totally shocked me as well. I have been pondering them since I have heard them. I posted the ideas twice on my FB page because I thought it was so poignant. Talked to my mom about it. Just been pondering it.

So, Jones' answer was beauty. I was thinking about that idea as I took this photo of the spider lilies that someone brought for altar flowers. Spider lilies only bloom when it gets colder in Mississippi, so it is one of the first signs of fall. A quite beautiful sign, if you ask me.

I liked the way that the shadows were playing on the wall, so I ruminated on that as I listened to pastor talk, wondering what I was dying for.

Last night, it came to me as I was leaving work: Love. Not love for family or friends or other loved ones, that's easy. But love that flows from me to trees and the universe and those who are not kind and those who do not even know me.

Yeah, that is more beautiful than anything I could think of and something I'd like to aspire to.