IS THIS ART?

I am showing you this because

I know some of you will understand.

You "get" why I paid for this item.

You see it through the same filter as I.

If you're reading this and 

you don't get it: Yes, I paid for it. 

I paid .10c at a garage sale 

a few weeks back.

(OK - it wasn't much. I WOULD have paid more...)

I was thrilled to hand the nice man my dime, 

and then bring it home with me.

(Actually, I left if in Julie's car, 

or you may have seen it sooner.) 

What exactly do I love about this

rusty, beat-up, old hammer head?

I love the heft and texture of it.

I love it that this thing has seen quite a few years,

and some very hard work. You can tell.

I think about what it may have looked like

when it was new, where it was made...

...what it cost, who bought it and for what purpose.

I wonder about what it might have built.

And I wonder when it lost its handle.

And I wonder how long it has been

languishing disconnected, unable

to continue the purpose for which it was created.

And I am thankful to have found it

for .10c at a garage sale down the street.

I am thankful I can appreciate this 

rusty thing, and display it in my home.

I am thankful I can see it with eyes 

 that appreciate it as if it had been

CREATED to be a piece of sculpture...

 A contemporary abstract 

bronze sculpture by Lynda Hukins

via

...instead of having been MOLDED into a sculpture

by enduring so many hard things for so long.

I can only see it from that perspective

because I am seen from that perspective.

And for that, I am thankful beyond words.

Word for the Day:

Deuteronomy 4:20
But the LORD has taken you and 

brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, 

to be a people of his own inheritance, 

as you are this day.

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