barren insights
by JVS on Jan.13, 2009, under 2009, Photography
The barrenness of the frozen reservoir captured my imagination today. There was just something about its emptiness; its stark and expansive loneliness. The thought hit me that only vast and vacant spaces can hold and reflect great and immense things.
There’s something about how emptiness yearns to be filled. The mystery of its nothingness calls out in a way, it asks; beckons. And it seems to have room for something significant. It has space.
I’ve always thought that it would take the enormity of a universe to begin to adequately hold and reflect the nature and being of God. Anything smaller just couldn’t come close. And universes are filled with emptiness, anti-matter and blackness aren’t they? Perhaps only something this empty could begin to be filled with the presence of God. Omnipotence and omnipresence couldn’t fit anywhere else.
It just made me smile, taking in all that empty space.
