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The high superfluousness of God’s love is demonstrated by rainbows flung over rain and secret rainbows painted on the domes of deep sea-shells. Do you notice your day by the superfluous gifts of God - they are over the top, crazy, gorgeous, unnecessary, demonstrations of his love for His creation and His love for us. Take the time to widen the focus of your camera lens to see those superfluous gifts from God - wrap yourself in them and enjoy the extravagance of God’s love.
Main Entry: su·per·flu·ous
• Pronunciation: \su̇-ˈpər-flü-əs\
• Function: adjective
• Etymology: Middle English, from Latin superfluus, literally, running over, from superfluere to overflow, from super- + fluere to flow — more at fluid
• Date: 15th century
1 a : exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra b : not needed : unnecessary.
2 obsolete : marked by wastefulness : extravagant
— su·per·flu·ous·ly adverb
— su·per·flu·ous·ness noun
Poem by Robinson Jeffers - The Excesses of God
Is it not by his high superfluousness we know
Our God? For to be equal a need
Is natural, animal,mineral: but to fling
Rainbows over the rain
And beauty above the moon, and secret rainbows
On the domes of deep sea-shells,
And make the necessary embrace of breeding
Beautiful also as fire,
Not even the weeds to multiply without blossom
Nor the birds without music:
There is the great humaneness at the heart of things,
The extravagant kindness, the fountain
Humanity can understand, and would flow likewise
If power and desire were perch-mates.
** photo by Brian Jones