Oct 18, 2024

How Do YOU Look At Pictures?

"RED?! How can you study with everything all red?" My high school years, I remember seeing my Dad's study in our Furugen house. I felt like I would be blinded stepping into that room of red walls, red upholstery, red painted bookcases, red curtains. How could Daddy stand it?

"Actually, the color is too bright for me," Daddy said; "so it keeps my head down and concentrated on what I'm studying."

Oh...I was beginning to get it. I remembered seeing a picture of Daddy supposedly at his "study", but if you looked at it carefully, he wasn't really studying, but looking at the picture of Mommy on the desk. That picture was taken just after they were married, so it's forgivable.

But I guess he stopped thinking there was a problem with looking at photographs in the study, because he began putting them up--of course, of family, then of missionaries and co-workers.

It spilled over into enlarging, framing, and hanging photographs all over the house, building bulletin boards and reflective panels for them, transforming the home into a photo museum.

Daddy kept praying. Even when he couldn't preach anymore, he kept praying for all those he put up. I wonder if people on those walls realize we don't have to be missionaries and pay to have prayer cards made. Some people, like Daddy, enlarge, frame, display normal photographs for that very purpose.

Daddy painted over the red bookcases with white  paint.