All Things Are Made New Again

I carry in the glove box of my car a point-and-shoot 35mm camera. It is old and rough and precisely the right camera for photos I take from the driver’s window at red lights or pulled over on a gravel road.

I am drawn, with this old camera, to photograph the wreckage and disarray of cities, abandoned homes and farms. I do no more with the printed images than stick a stamp and my name on the back, add an address and mail them. These are postcards from out there, pictures from the margins.

A great fire now burns across Yosemite, combusting the old, reducing all in its path to ash. Yet we know that new life will follow the fire. The forest and the creatures will return.

So, too, the cities, suburbs and farms. People return and begin anew. New uses are found for old spaces as God works among us and all things are made new again.

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!
Josh