I passed this field on my way back to the office after lunch the other day and I was struck by the tragic beauty of the scene. Everything has to die sometime, we all know this, but seeing an entire field of sunflowers - a signal of light and happiness - was gut-wrenching. I was so struck by it, in fact, that I took a drive to that field during my lunch break today just to capture that feeling on my camera.
I won't go too far into the symbolism of this picture. I could write a novel or give a lecture series on my thoughts about its significance. But I will say this: we can always take any experience in life one of two ways. We can either see it as a positive or a negative. And even though this picture looks pretty negative, I see it as a method of motivation. Because I see it as a reminder that there is a time and a season for every living thing, and in the winter of our lives things can get a bit hopeless sometimes. But we need to remember that spring will come. The weather will change and every wasteland will be overturned and given new life.
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