Soggy and Beautiful
This morning I awoke to a Baton Rouge that is both soggy and beautiful. Sometimes life is like that. Rains come and fall all over our lives. As the showers fall or the storms rage, we aren’t quite sure whether to feel anxious or encouraged. Changes are coming, as they inevitably do, but no one asked our permission first. We can feel both peaceful and melancholy at the same time. The rains stop and we venture out of our cover. Enjoy the fresh earthy scents. Pull a couple of weeds that have been loosened by the deluge. Drink in the rich hues of green around us.
The day itself seems to be thoughtful – mournful, sad, contemplative, anticipatory. A good day for pouring fresh rich coffee and drinking it slowly. Read some Frost or Dostoevsky or Whitman or Nouwen or some other writer who invites you to slowly hear and consider their words.
A day made to be encountered slowly and reverently. Not to be rushed and ignored, but lingered and savored.
Aaaaaaahhhhh…
Wonder what today will bring.
Even as I consider the last, I hear the fresh rainfall, which God mercifully held aloft until I reached my office. Open the blinds to my window looking out on the grass and trees and pond and rustic red barn. Wonder what could ever have compelled me to close the blinds yesterday. Although I have not yet spent time today in God’s Word, I have spent time drinking deeply of His well of life, seeing and hearing and tasting and smelling and feeling Him and His wonderful creative redemptive Truth all around me.
Ever have a day like that? We would love to hear about it.
2 Comments
Roger · March 26, 2009 at 12:56 pm
By the way, my reading selection ended up being Romans 11 – 12, read more slowly than I have in a while.
“So, too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace…
“Oh, the depths of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him? For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen…
“For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.”
I could meditate on that for a solid year, and still not get my fill of it. Man, do I need God every moment of every day!!!
Evelyn · March 26, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I loved your blog today. Though it is slightly overcast here today, but with sun peaking through, I can appreciate what you are saying. I love this time of year, when things start getting green and new life emerges. I try to make it a time for renewal myself. Your blog made me remember the joy I usually have in this season, and determine to enjoy that again, starting this moment.
Evelyn