grey brilliance

lake estes
Originally uploaded by abox.

it's raining today.

my last day in Estes Park. and there's a steady drizzle outside....

so. i took a walk around the lake. and i am, once again, blown away with the view of His creation...as the mountains peek in and out of clouds, it dawned on me.

grey.

we live in a world of grey. We live all our lives among shadows and broken things.

this is a bit funny to me...grey has been my favorite color for a while now. i'm offtimes afraid to admit it for fear of being labeled morbid or lackluster. but all the same, grey it is.

why grey?

and how, you ask, can i look at these majestic mountains and say, "grey"? i mean, they're fantastically beautiful. they're winsome in their calling us to worship. am i not really appreciating them for their true beauty?

i see them as grey because i'm comparing them to their eternal reality.

think about it:

heaven = Technicolor


thus, we're grey.

looking at the recent events in Virginia, it's easy to label this a big, bad world. some of you might even say that the world is BLACK. but even amidst the pain and strife and and dark, there is a hint of redemption present.

sorrows are mourned.
pain endured.
lives strengthened. all in view of the cross.

the cross is our connection to eternity.

please don't think i'm making light of the recent events. rather, i'm broken for them and for us and for our world. but even as i look at the world and want to label it all 'bad', i realize that it is bad. it is evil. but it is also in the midst of a battle of good and evil. their is white, purity present. the lives of the saints are the light of the world. but as the world is full of dark and light souls....the mottled result is: grey.

our hope is....

as eternity echoes in today, the grey starts to glow....it's as if it picks up little traces of what is to come, and the grey of today becomes brilliant.

yes. it's still grey.

but there's a brilliance...a touch of the eternal in the present.

live life seeing the brilliance of grey in the everyday.