My favorite image
Someone asked me the other day what my favorite photograph was. I told her the following. It was one of my first captured with a digital camera. If you’ve never heard the story I hope you’ll read on and be encouraged. I’ll give you the Reader’s Digest version. The title is Insignificance.
It was taken in Chicago on Lake Shore Drive on a hot summer’s morning – 5:45am to be precise. Cars were zooming by at breakneck speed it seemed when I saw this man loping along the drive. (I know you can’t make out details due to the size of the image, but the 24×36 inch print hanging on my wall looks fabo!) His cap is on backwards and he’s wearing a baggy t-shirt while looking out into the empty space of the sky and Lake Michigan. He’s just a speck of a creature, isn’t he! The volume of the negative space, I believe, adds to the composition and story.
Immediately the word and title, insignificance, popped into my head. Could that be what he was thinking? “Does my life matter? In this vast expanse before me, who am I but a speck of dust in the grand scheme of things?”
No! I exclaimed to myself as I watched him make his way out of view among the steel and concrete giants that lined the boulevard. Your life matters! You have value! You ARE significant regardless of what you may be thinking.
Friends, I don’t know if you’ve ever felt that way or wondered about your own significance. So please remember this – you bear the image of the Creator. “You are fearfully and wonderfully made,” wrote the psalmist.
“So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1
