William Sutherland's photos with the keyword: God

Mamaroneck, NY Photographer's Note: When I discovered the newspaper ad for the "Hand of God" play, Psalm 139:7-8 and Romans 8:39 came to mind. Furthermore, when I was taking this photo with a zoom lens, a butterfly landed on my right sleeve and stayed there for several minutes before flying off. It also briefly -- only for a 2-3 seconds, landed on the top green spray can. I saw this butterfly last time when I finished taking photos of this setting and was satisfied with the angle used. Afterwards, it had left for good. It was kind of surprising for the butterfly to be there in the first place, considering the setting is in an industrial area where there are no flowers. Last, what looks like the earth is actually a small, soft child's ball that had been among the rubbish.

Larchmont, NY Photographer’s Statement: He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering… [B]y his wounds we are healed. He was assigned a grave with the wicked… though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. [Isaiah 53:3-5, 9] It because of this scripture that a setting among garbage in which all items (with the exception of the broken corpus) were found at the location is appropriate and fitting. I held onto the broken corpus to use in just the right setting. When I found the red heart, I knew this was the location. Even though they humiliated and scourged him, nailed him to the cross (formed by the discarded heart, CD (which also serves as a halo to illustrate the impending resurrection and resulting universal salvation), cup cover, and lower part of the corpus), opened his side with a lance and assigned his grave to be with the wicked (symbolized by the abundance of dried leaves and litter) – they could not break his love (symbolized by the intact heart that has retained its color and is beginning to break away from the cross – a sign that death has been conquered and every grave will be shattered) simply because "God is love!" [1 John 4:8 and 16] The background colors and textures represent the universe and eternity. Concluding Haiku: With body broken, He cried, “Father, forgive them!” God’s love saves us all!