Consider-the-Lilies Web Gallery
Welcome
This site was opened to share images recorded in the meadows and forests around my home in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, just to the west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This is not, however, a collection of mountain landscape or wildflower images, which while sublimely beautiful and worthy of our consideration, can be found elsewhere on the Web; the images on display in the Gallery take a different perspective, as follows:
Jesus said: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" (Matthew 6:28b-30, KJV),
One day I simply shifted my gaze and camera downward and looked closely—considered, as Jesus said—the wonderful elements of God's creation that lay at my feet. I found that these "lilies"—what we call wildflowers, surely, but also "misplaced plants" (weeds), as well as spiders and insects of all sorts—these ephemeral examples of God's workmanship—were absolutely beautiful.
The Gallery was established so others might also see the beauty I've found in my field and be struck by the lavishness of God's grace, too—and, perhaps, also "consider the lilies" in their own backyard, and be reminded of the promise contained in these words of Jesus Christ.
I invite you to click on the button below to view the Directory of image rooms in the Gallery.
