HDR
My days are like a lengthened shadow, and I wither away like grass. Psalm 102:11 NASB Lengthened – For those of you who aren’t familiar with exposure problems in photography, let me explain HDR. High Dynamic Range is the situation where the light in the picture varies significantly between highs (whites) and lows (blacks). While the…
The Lawnmower
My heart has been struck like grass and has withered, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread. Psalm 102:4 NASB Has been struck – We might use the idiom “Go pound sand!” but I’ve never heard anyone say, “Go beat grass!” That makes me wonder what the psalmist had in mind when he chose this verb, nākâ. Certainly…
Who Are You?
As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. Psalm 103:15 NASB Like grass – David has just drawn a subtle but important link between “frame,” “dust” and the yetser ha’ra. We were made for struggle. Struggle is who we are. Life on earth is not heaven…
Truth or Fiction
All flesh is grass, and all its grace as the flower of the field. Isaiah 40:6 Grass – “The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.” So said the ex-Communist colonel in the recent film, The International. This is great script writing. We do expect our novels to make sense. …
