A thought on a photo

Last year for Thanksgiving I was home and very Thankful to have my family. This year our very sweet neighbors took us in and made us their family.  It was wonderful and there was not an inch of room at that table for another guest. There was so much food, laughter and love. A full house, just the way I have always thought a holiday should be.  Yet that feeling snuck in many times throughout the day. That empty feeling in my heart that I know only my family can fill. I ached for the family that is to far away and I ached for the family that has passed on.

I took this photo and fell in love with it. It was late afternoon light, you know when the magic light is out?!  Something about it was saying cover of  Southern Living to me.  This photo is (SOOC). To you non photo people that means straight out of camera,(nothing has been done to it).  Then I sat and looked at it for awhile and all of a sudden, all I could see is the white porch post beam. Like how come I didn't see it till now?  Does that ever happen to you? You think you hit the nail straight on the head, then you step back and ask yourself how could you have missed that? This just keeps happening in my daily walk. People say "Give it to God".  I'm pretty sure I gave him the wheel long ago. So why does he keep setting me down with these rose colored glasses, and then rip them off for me to see, I still have so much more work to do before I will ever see past the white post. No, I'm not really talking about taking photos at all here. Nothing is what it seems, and sometimes you get hurt in thinking you thought you knew what "things" really looked like.