Soul-scape - Puddles

Perhaps puddles are not the most inspirational part of creation.  Maybe not something that you think of as hums with the holy.  Maybe you see puddles as an annoyance and something to be avoided.  Maybe once a person driving crashed into a puddle that splashed and soaked you when walking down the street.  Maybe you had to leap over a puddle hoping to land on your feet so that your shoes didn't get saturated. 

These remnants of rain are more than something we have step around.

Puddles have a beauty and can shape our souls. 

I took the above photo in the parking lot of the church.  I love that in the puddle you can see the cracks in the driveway as well as the reflection of a nearby tree.  I love that the translucent puddle would soon evaporate in less than an hour later be back up in tiny, unseen atoms floating in the air.  I find it fascinating to slow down and see what the puddle has to say, because it is fleeting and fading and doesn't have forever to teach and tell us its truths.

The puddle seemed to say, that in our lives have cracks...our lives reflect the living parts of the world around us...parts of our lives that seem so permanent may eventually vanish barely leaving a trace.  This puddle seemed to say, slow down, don't race, run past, rather listen.  See the small golden leaf floating on the right side of frame like the parts of color in our lives.

Perhaps we have missed the beauty of puddles and how they can shape our souls.  Like the above puddle I do reflect parts of the living world around me.  Not just trees, but people I interact with or blades of grass or flowers or even things made by human hands like buildings or bridges or sidewalks I wander down.  Like the puddle there are cracks in my life, things that I wish were not there but can also absorb some of the hurts.  And sometimes things that I think will be around forever vanish as quickly as a puddle on a warm summer Florida day.

How might puddles shape your souls?
What do you see or sense when you look at the above photo?
What do you reflect right now?
Or where are there cracks in your life?
Or a leaf floating past?

In prayerfully pondering those questions, may you sense more than a trace of God's grace.

Blessings ~~