I
awoke to this: orange light in my eyes. I rose and went to the window,
and my heart quickened. It was one of those mornings when I rush to
find my camera and throw on something to keep me warm, run down the
hallway to the back door, and out into the sunrise glow of a thousand
unnamed colors. And I begin recording, as fast as I can all the ways the
light makes a miracle of the world around me --
quickly, quickly before it vanishes. Because it will, because it
changes as rapidly as the earth spins and the clouds move, and in a
matter of moments it will turn gray, and those who missed it will only
wake to the dull colors of the overcast sky. But today I have had my
eyes filled to overflowing with color, and I will carry it with me
through the doings of my day, remembering how life is beautiful, but
fleeting. And I am grateful....
"So we fix our eyes not on what
is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but
what is unseen is eternal."
- 2 Cor.4:18
Therefore, since we are
surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off
everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us
run with perseverance the race marked out for us, FIXING our eyes on
JESUS, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he
endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand
of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from
sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."
~ Hebrews 12:1-3
WHY
do we ever get over being amazed at God's love for us, at what Jesus
has done for us?? Sometimes I think we purposely obstruct our view of
the glory of these truths simply because our hearts might burst if we
tried to take it all in at once -- it's just too much, just too
wonderful, too amazing, so that we have to find a way to contain it so
that we can move on with the daily mundane-ness. But if we step over
the fences and move out into the bigness of God that surrounds us, we
just might be able to do things we had not ever imagined that we could,
we might be able to love each other better, we might just be able to
fly.....
On days like today when the world has come
alive in the warmth of spring and every one of my senses is flooded with
the beauty of creation, and there are not enough words to express it. .
. .
