The beauty of macro photography is being able to get so close to your subject that you see details you had never noticed before. New colors, new textures or maybe even previously unseen wounds. To zoom in is to notice but it also says there is something worth noticing. What if we spent that much time paying attention? What might we see?

When I took this picture, I hadn’t really paid attention to the number of condos on the other shore. After zooming in and counting I realized there may be 300 people or more in this picture. It’s one street in a fairly wealthy area. Each of those people in each of those homes in each of the condos on that street have so much diversity of need. Unlike the first picture, we see large numbers of people in singular ways because there is too much to pay attention to. What are the challenges of seeing people as blocks of people? What do we lose when we do this? What might we miss?

When I see these bees, at the end of the season, I think of this call I adhere to that reminds me of direction. Never tire of doing good. You’re clinging to a flower for the sake of that peace but also a goodness that is to come. Not, don’t get tired, but do not tire of doing good. What is the thing that has made you feel tired of doing good? What kind of strength can a future of blossoms remind you of what clinging to this way of goodness is producing?