A Moment Aside --- 4 May 2021
I hope you remember kaleidoscopes like I do… a tube that used
cracked glass or beads, mirrors, and a part that was turned to make unending
and unrepeatable patterns when you looked through the one end and turned the other.
Light, colours, and changing patterns giving joy to anyone who looked.
In a similar way, God can do that with our lives. We are
broken, all of us. We know it. We feel it. We see it. We live in a broken
world, where storms, floods, volcanos, and pandemics can obscure the beauty
around us. Prejudice, violence, hatred, and indifference all trouble our hearts
and minds and change our perception of the world.
Yet we are our own worst enemies, hating ourselves for being
broken and for not doing better. Many of us have been taught to despise
ourselves for just those reasons and more… and more.
Consider then the kaleidoscope, a simple child’s toy, one
many of us have left behind in our haste to “grow up.” Yet in it is a strange
beauty and a sort of joy that cannot often be found elsewhere. What makes the
beauty? Light, mirrors, broken glass or beads, and our imagination.
As I said, God can do that with our lives, making beauty from
our broken parts. What God sees in us and what God turns us to makes for a
never ending and ever-changing pattern of light, colour, and beauty.
God is doing that… whether or not we see it.
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