Discovery

Discovery

November 29, 2013

This photo was taken within a minute after the discovery of this "Kirk Corner Notched" arrowhead in a field in North Charleston, SC.  I held here in my hand an ancient artifact, and this photo documents my first look at it in the sunlight.  The feeling I have at the sight of it is one of wonder.  I immediately picture a native American crafting this for the hunt hundreds, maybe thousands, of years ago.  The excitement I feel is not over its intrinsic value, but rather over the joy of discovering what was lost for ages untold.  I told my son, Nathan, who was with me, that we should thank God for the find.  That's the moment when joy turned to praise and I was reminded of Psalm 24:1 that says, "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein."