Sunrise came an hour later today, as did sunset.
It is amazing, is it not, how we little humans can manipulate the heavens with our clocks. Such time-travelers we are.
Pious folk are fond of saying that God is beyond time or outside of time, as if he watches time from the outside, like a worker next to an eternal conveyor belt, moving the people and pieces around as he pleases.
It is a convenient thought, but it doesn't fit the biblical drama where God is intimately involved in our stories and where Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, and Pentecost, all of them concrete events in time, change the course of eternity.
I expect it is closer to the truth to say that time is simply one of the ways that God is; that the ceaseless progression of one event after another is simply part of his nature. Yet he sees the end from the beginning. Such is the wonder of God.
Universes may bang big and collapse into nasty black holes, but God remains God.
Can I see God in the times of my life?
Can I see him is the sunrise and sunset?
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty,darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day," and the darkness he called “night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day.
The heavens declare his glory. Amen.
Walking into work on a particularly bright and cold day a week ago or so.
Yashica-D TLR, red filter
Kodak TMax 400 120 roll film
Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner