reflections of the Son
the grass was too prickly and my front porch is covered; so tonight, i laid on my driveway. i wanted to be see the sky, to sit under it, to be enveloped by it. there was little remnant of the hot day still left in the air as i let the wind blow over my body and relaxed in its coolness. living in the city, i don't see many stars, only the really bright ones. once i spent a couple weeks on a navajo reservation 25 miles from electricity; i have never beheld such a wonder as the night sky in the barren desert. the sky was sprayed with millions of white dots, glimmering and twinkling as if playing music together. i once heard that stars are simply holes in the sky, and through these holes we see the brilliance of God; only pieces of His glory.
there are no twinkles tonight; their shinning is dimmed by the walmart parking lot a half a mile away. no tonight, it was not the stars that held me captive; tonight it was the moon. i don't remember seeing it glow so vibrantly before, so big, so bright. my view from the pavement was silhouetted by the oak in our front yard; i couldn't take it all in at once. i just had to lay there and soak slowly into me.
the moon, unlike the stars or the sun, produces no light of its own. there are no gases churning together on its surface to emit light for itself. the brightness i see from it is the reflecting light of the sun. i cannot see the sun at all; it has long since set. but i can see in the moon, the effects of it and know that somewhere, it is still giving off light. even in the darknest hours of the night, the moon still spills it's soft blue hue across the streets. the sun will come again, but until then, it lights the earth through the moon.
when you live your life in Christ, you know life will not be filled with sunny days; pain and struggle are inevitable. but you know the darkness is temporary. regardless of how difficult things may seem, your hope is in something greater, something bigger, something brighter. it feels as if darkness is all around me and there is no sign of the morning sun. until i see the light of day, Lord, reflect Yourself in me.
there are no twinkles tonight; their shinning is dimmed by the walmart parking lot a half a mile away. no tonight, it was not the stars that held me captive; tonight it was the moon. i don't remember seeing it glow so vibrantly before, so big, so bright. my view from the pavement was silhouetted by the oak in our front yard; i couldn't take it all in at once. i just had to lay there and soak slowly into me.
the moon, unlike the stars or the sun, produces no light of its own. there are no gases churning together on its surface to emit light for itself. the brightness i see from it is the reflecting light of the sun. i cannot see the sun at all; it has long since set. but i can see in the moon, the effects of it and know that somewhere, it is still giving off light. even in the darknest hours of the night, the moon still spills it's soft blue hue across the streets. the sun will come again, but until then, it lights the earth through the moon.
when you live your life in Christ, you know life will not be filled with sunny days; pain and struggle are inevitable. but you know the darkness is temporary. regardless of how difficult things may seem, your hope is in something greater, something bigger, something brighter. it feels as if darkness is all around me and there is no sign of the morning sun. until i see the light of day, Lord, reflect Yourself in me.
posted by jill m at 10:09 PM
1 Comments:
Jill, I am continuously inspired by what you write. All the while I am reading, I am thinking, why were we not the best of friends in school...I had no idea.
I see the Light reflecting in you, Jill, and can only strive to give off that same brightness, day or night.
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