Photoshopped

I have fallen in love with PicMonkey!  No, it’s not a cartoon, or quirky rock band, it’s an online photoshopping site, and  if you’re not familiar with the term, let me explain. Let’s say you take a picture of a tulip, it’s nice enough, but not great.  Upload the photo file to PicMonkey, and have some fun.  In the basic area you can improve the clarity, crop it, change the exposure, add or remove shadows etc.  Move on to the other levels and the options are limitless.  Add a border, pump up the colors, HDR it (which adds higher dimension), write a caption, add stickers, you name it, and this site has the tool to do it.  After a few minutes of tweaking, viola you have a masterpiece!!  The original is still there, it’s beauty is just enhanced, and best of all, it’s FREE!!  You know I love that aspect.  I got to thinking that God is like the quintessential photoshopper.  He has everything in his power to make us into those same kind of unique works of art. Where we have darkness or shadows of doubt, he brings light and bursts of color.  In the HDR mode he pumps up our understanding of him. Like a true artist, he never wants his work to look phony or contrived, merely a subtly refined reflection of himself, and it‘s FREE too!!  “…let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God--truly righteous and holy.” Ephesians 4:23-24