Above
the REST of the week #135
It’s the rest of the week. How about a view from above?
“We’re going up to The Blues to find a Christmas tree—wanna come?” asked my sister, the one with five children and seemingly endless energy. The one who knows what will be a good time and knows how to make it happen.
“Ummm,” I stalled, “it’s our last day here and I think we’ll stay with Mom and Dad.”
I kept my feelings of, “are you kidding? It’s way too uncomfortable to go out in this freezing weather” to myself.
The constant cloud cover and ongoing ebb and flow of fog had effectively erased my short term memory of blue skies and I’d slipped into a state of sluggishness.
We know there’s a sun up there somewhere, but sometimes we forget, and it feels like the cloud cover’s dark underbelly is all there is.
We know our hope is anchored in a Light more real than the sun, but sometimes we forget, and it feels like the darkness is overcoming us.
My sister and her family arrived in time for supper, rosy-cheeked and joyful.
“It was beautiful!” the children exclaimed, each providing their own description of what it was like to drive right through the cloud layer—to enter the darkness for a time, and then, finally, to emerge from the gloom into a world of dazzling brightness where the sun swam lazily across an azure sky, splashing diamonds all over a dusting of snow underfoot.
Whether or not we see the sun, it is always there, holding our planet in orbit, keeping track of the days, the seasons, and providing for our energy and food needs.
Whether we see God or not, he is always there, holding us and keeping track of the days of our lives, the times of this world, and sustaining the life we have.
“What then is faith? It is what gives assurance to our hopes; it is what gives us conviction about things we can’t see.”
Hebrews 11:1 NTFE
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it…
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
John 1:1-5, 14 NIV
May you rest in faith and hope. Faith in Jesus and the real story of his coming to this world to redeem us. Hope in the real promise he made to come back again and restore all things.
And may your rest be sweet.
Alicia
P.S. I’m hoping that when my nieces and nephews feel under the weather, they remember that the sun still shines bright above the clouds. I hope they always remember the good times to be enjoyed up there…