When the Sun Goes Down

This is one of the sunflowers that my mom had planted near the back corner of the house.  We came home one day a few weeks ago and all of the eight-foot-tall flowers had fallen over, probably because of wind whipping around the house.  I named this picture "When the Sun Goes Down" thinking about it being dark, but later it occurred to me that not only did the sun itself go down, but this is of a sunflower that had gone down.

Now that I'm writing this it actually reminds me of a popular Christian song that is based on 2 Corinthians 4:9 "persecuted, but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed" (NKJV). The flowers were struck down, but are not destroyed.  And . . . they are sunflowers.  They are thus called because they follow the sun.  They are seeking its light constantly.  And they are beautiful because of it.  We as Christians are supposed to look at the Son and his light to be like him.  (2 Corinthians 3:18)