Reflection

"For now we see in a glass dimly, but then face to face. . . "

Our new calendar this year shows pictures of the Holy Land. . . where Jesus walked.
Where holy feet touched dusty earth, and sovereign hands held broken bread, and Savior eyes gazed at golden sunsets. 

The picture for January shows the sunrise above the Dead Sea.  It's name holds meaning, in that there is no life under its rolling waters.  The salt, the minerals, the heavy things of earth have so filled the sea that it cannot sustain the living.  It has taken and taken and given nothing, so it bears the name of death.

The waves upon the sea (in this scene) are moving quickly, so as not to reflect the beauty of the sunrise.

You have seen those beautiful photographs of a mountain towering above a quiet lake and the reflection of the snow capped vista is so pure you can see every shadow and ridge and tree.  But, not so when the water rises and crests and rolls. 

Am I the lake or the sea?  Does my life teem with so much busyness and doing that I fail to reflect the beauty of the Lord?  Do the things of this world fill me, so that the seed of the Gospel has no place to grow?  Is my life so hectic that one can barely make out the glory of God that lives inside?  Do I ever take time to "be still and know" for in the stillness, He can be seen.  Am I known by death or life? 

In the questions, we can reflect and learn and grow and change.
May my life find the stillness to reflect His love.