Nontrivial Exercises

Always Have Your Camera

I’m learning to bring my camera everywhere. I still don’t bring it quite everywhere, but I’m bringing it more and more places.

Sometimes I get discouraged and mad that I don’t have (make?) time to process all the photos I’ve taken, and so I decide to leave my camera at home. I get weary - literally - of a string of 4-5 hours-of-sleep nights when I choose to work on photos rather than rest. I get frustrated that I’m almost out of disk space, and while disks are cheap, I still don’t have the ability to get as much space as I really want (need?). I become exasperated when I just sit and listen to my MacBook Pro valiantly churn its disk for seconds and seconds and seconds, while it shows me the little spinning beach ball to remind me I’m pushing it right up to its limits, but can’t currently afford to get something more powerful.

Maybe if I punish my camera (or myself?) by leaving it at home and not taking beautiful pictures, I reason, it will become shamed and remorseful and decide to help me have more time, more disk space, more computer in the future.

Childish, but true.

If I had given in to the self-pity and frustration on Friday, however, I would not have been able to pull over on a side street and run back to capture this beautiful sunset on my way home.

And this image reminds me there is a Power greater than me who loves me and has a plan for me. One who is bigger than cameras, disks, computers and even time. I trust Him to help me take the next step.

And I’m going to try to keep my camera with me to document what He does.

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