A Week of Conflict
We have a week of conflict…
A camera bought with such hope
Tested again and again
Given opportunities to shine…
But it doesn’t
What we hope for doesn’t happen
Again and again it does not…
The week fills with
Tension
Conflict
Disappointment
But once resolved the mists clear
We see beauty again
We delight in things of Hope and Growth
Does living always with Conflict
Blinds us to beauty?
Do tension and disappointment
Crowd out the small things
Meant to warm our hearts
When enemy forces crowd our lives
Blinding us, darkening our days
- storms, strong winds and rain batter the house
- we visit the beauty of the riverside to test the camera
- we search for camera opportunities
- not seeing the beauty just seeing camera woes
- we talk camera
- we worry camera
- I am not alone with this and value Hubby’s sensible approach
- we arrange back to back tests
- we watch for improvements
- we see none
- Hubby engages the supplier, gently pressing home our opinion
- we try all they ask of us
- we do not see what we hope for or expect
- Time out for dinner with friends
- We try hard not to talk about the camera, the conflict
- Wonderful evening
- In front of the fire
- Watching early Hitchcock films
black and white, clumsy,
dramatically simplistic but so entertaining
- Conversations, laughter
- In Company, we relax in togetherness
- When offspring checks it out, his affirmation encourages
- He writes a report with vocabulary that persuades
- We are proud of and grateful for it
- We pack the camera with care and return it
- We sense relief with conflict resolved
- Suddenly instead of Problem I see beauty
- We are free to see more than Disappointment
- Wind and rain stirring trees
- Moaning through the wires
- Mist filled River valleys
- Abundant violets
- Japonica blooms
- New buds forming
Words and Photographs © Denise Stanford 2010
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