Meredith Gould, PhD, is the author of seven books, including The Catholic Home: Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast Days, and Every Day, Why Is There a Menorah on the Altar? Jewish Roots of Christian Worship, and The Word Made Fresh: Communicating Church and Faith Today. She serves on the team at The Virtual Abbey and founded the Twitter chat for church social media (#chsocm).
I looked up, saw that splash-flash of red and thought: valiant bold effort, amen.
Meredith, what perfect timing that you posted this today as we launch Picturing God: Faces and Traces of the Divine. We’re inviting people to contribute their own photos of where they find God. See those details here.
As to your particular God-in-the-details moment, I love the image of autumn peeking through the still mostly green tree. Autumn gives us such wonderful natural imagery of the divine!