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Sunflower Field

 Here’s my illustrated journal entry for today:

It’s all about sunflowers and gratefulness and what one has to do with the other.




It started two weeks ago when I visited a local produce market for pumpkins and squash, and noticed they have a giant field of sunflowers. It was a yummy autumn day, and I was allowed to take pictures of the flowers.



     I am also part of a 30 day photo challenge online where every day there is a topic, and today’s topic was gratitude. Wow, where to begin? There’s so much to be grateful for. I just heard a minister teach on God is light. He shared how a sunflower literally turns its head from east to west in the course of a day to follow the light, and at night reorients itself so that it will face east in the morning again. I’m speechless at the beauty and simplicity of that analogy. That God designed that into nature. That He invented sunflowers to follow the light. That as a follower of  God and His Word I can do the same thing. And that I just took all these pictures of sunflowers. Grateful. So so grateful. 
 

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