Monday, October 18, 2010

A calender moment

Every one of us has experienced a “Calendar moment”.
While driving my car came up over a hill and standing there waiting for me to see was… a calendar moment.
Those pictures that are special enough, timely enough, minus the effects that are so easy to make in this computer age, to make it on a scenic calendar.
100% pure gift from the Lord.
The mist covering the trees was perfect.
The sunlight was perfect.
The fall colors on the trees; perfect.
It was a snapshot moment in time.
It couldn’t be seen 30 seconds before and then 30 seconds later, it was gone.
The calendar moment was gone because I was in a different place, the light was different, the mist had fallen a bit more.
But in that moment of time, I could appreciate the beauty my eyes beheld and how much the Lord loves us to provide this kind of scene. He didn’t have to.
And He didn’t have to let us understand what we were seeing.
That moment gave and continues to give me hope for the situations in my life that are less than perfect right now.
If we don’t see the glory of the Lord in that moment, if we don’t see His perfect plan coming together in a moment of time that steals our very breath and humbles us to the magnificent orchestration of the Lord God Almighty; know this.. we are either coming up on it very shortly or we are too close to it so we can’t see it right now. But we will.
When the Lord pulls us along, and we turn our thoughts to what He has brought us through. When we catch a glimpse in retrospect, we have just had a “calendar moment”.
And then we learn,
We learn to look for them, people and situations from far off and can catch a glimpse of the beauty of it all.

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