Photo Art with Beef

I'm a big fan of cool photos. For my desktop, for example, I always need to find new exciting pictures to inspire me, whilst at work or play. I've had pictures of far away galaxies, majestic mountains, some creations of my own design . . .

Right now its "Cow Looking Sideways.jpg"

It's pretty amazing . . . a close-up of a black and white cow (front-right) looking off-screen to the left. She has a broken chain around her neck, and she stands against a back-drop of blue sky, white clouds, and green grass. The only other thing in the picure is a barbed-wire fence, in the direction that she's looking.

(Check out a scaled-down copy here)

I can't quite make out the premise of the picture . . . or at least I flip-flop according to my mood. On the one hand, I think she's looking back at what she's left behind; she's broken the chain, and avoided the fence and now simply turns for one last look before she continues in freedom.

On the other hand (a much more depressing hand), I don't see any signs that my heffer friend had to tackle any barbed-wire. She's almost standing there, daunted that she cannot defeat said fence. She's broken the chain, but even after all that effort she's still stuck inside her pen.

I've felt both ways many times. Neither of which are great I suppose. Jesus tells me I'm no good for service if I look back after I start my work . . . but he also tells me that not even barbed-wire can sustain his delivering power.

I just wish I knew what she was looking at.