Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if I had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

- Robert Frost

The Other Half

A little less than two years ago I took a photograph called "The Half Sun." It is seen in a post entitled "Unusual Suns" that I posted in January of this year. It was so neat looking, one of the more unique "suns" that I've seen. The sun never seems to look quite the same; sometimes it's red, sometimes white, sometimes yellow, sometimes half-way hidden by clouds, sometimes peeking behind clouds, sometimes creating a rainbow, sometimes in brilliant sunsets, sometimes in ordinary sunsets, sometimes more to the southern horizon, sometimes more directly up . . . you get the idea. It rarely looks the same. Different seasons, different times of day, and different weather conditions change the way we see it. 

The morning I took this picture there was only half a sun.

And this morning (Dec. 3) I found the other half!

It never looks the same. It's appearance changes depending on the way I view it. The same is true in our relationship with God. Our perceptions of Him change as our circumstances change. Depending on where we are in life, what season we're going through, what the spiritual "weather conditions" are, He is revealed in different light from day to day. But, like the sun, He is always the same. No matter how distant or dim He might appear, He is there. Even when He apparently disappears altogether, He has not gone. He is with us in our deepest darkest valleys and our highest brightest mountains. As Jesus Himself said just before He left this earth: "I am with you always, to the end of the age."