365 Project Day 27: In the Moment

Canon 5D Mark ll, 24-70L, 2.8 aperture, 1/125 shutter. 100 ISO

Today’s image was inspired by my new favorite author, Ann Voskamp. Her new book One Thousand Gifts, is an amazing read. I highly recommend it. Here is the excerpt that inspired the dishes and soap image above.

” April sun pools into dishwater sink, liquid daylight on hands. The water is hot. I wash dishes. On my arms, just below the hiked sleeves, suds leave delicate water marks. Suds glisten. And over the soaking pots, the soap bubbles stack. This fragile tension arched in spheres of slick elastic sheets. Light impinges on slippery film.

And I only notice because I am looking for this and it’s the rays falling, reflecting light off the outer surface of a bubble… off the rim of the bubble’s inner skin… and where they meet, this interference of light, iridescence on the bubble’s arch, violet, magenta, blue-green, yellow-gold. Like the glimmer on the raven wing, the angels, the hues, the brilliant fluid, light on the waves.”

It is all so beautiful, but I especially love the line ” I only notice because I am looking for this”.

I have experienced this during my short time doing the 365 Project. I notice things I would normally pass by. I pause in time to gather the beauty to hold. To share. To savor. This is the beauty of living in the moment. The beauty of the smallest moments. The glory found on the iridescent surface of a bubble. So good.

If you want to know more about Ann Voskamp and her writing, visit her on her blog at aholyexperience.com. You will fall in love with her writing and images.

I am including a few other dishwater glory images below, because it was so hard to choose. May you find Him, the ever present I AM, in your everyday… today.