rain

we get loads of it here. i'm one of those odd creatures that likes it. today i woke to the sound of showers as i was cocooned in my warm blankets with the gentle patter of the rain on the window. today is beautiful in a soft hazy fairytale rainy kind of day. for some reason days like this make me feel God's nearness even more than the sunshine - though i'm not saying i don't like sun!

Steven Lawhead in many of his novels refers to 'the time between times' when the passages between the natural and spiritual are most thinly veiled. the time between times is a moment in temporal transition, like sunrise or sunset, autumn or spring, birth or death. days like today.

another thing i think about on days like this is the way God makes beauty of the curse of sin. as i look out the window at the green space behind the house i know there is death and decay all around. there are leaves falling to rot on the ground and dead needles under the evergreens. there's mush and mud and dead birds and all various other signs of the curse imposed on nature. but as i look my eyes see majestic firs, shiny holly and a tangle of green, yellow, red and crimson leaves dancing on their branches. knowing all the death is there i still only see beauty.

what a God.