For 28 years my grandpa, a Vietnam veteran, was a certified Scuba diver. All suited up, with air tank on his back, he plunged into the great blue deep. With heavy weights, he sunk down to the edge of the coral reefs of the Carribean.
Futher out, at a depth of about 90 feet, the blue became gray where no light could penetrate at that depth. Grandpa switched on his dive light and shined bright on the gray, restoring all the natural colors of the yellow and blue tangs or striped lionfish and clownfish.
He caught and brought them home, plopping them into his salt water aquarium. Keeping a little homemade ocean habitat was healing for his heart for all that he'd been through in Vietnam and in life.
With all that's going on in the world today, what can heal our fearful hearts?
How can we help create a little slice of heaven here on earth?
May our tears for our country, for the lost, for the broken be a prism for the light of Christ to reveal the rainbow of God's redemption in this part of His Story.
May our love replace the hate that is stealing the dignity, killing the joy and destroying the lives of people made in His image.
We don't have to be afraid or ashamed. But, we do need to keep on loving in the gray. Shining His light in the darkness. Being the hands that hold all our brothers and sisters close who reflect a rainbow of hues in the color of their skin.
"Nothing can separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus." ~Romans 8:27
No depth of uncertainty in these times can keep us from His love. Christ is always with us because He lives in our hearts.
"God is love
And whoever abides in love
Abides in God
And God abides in Him."
~1 John 4:16
Nothing, absolutely nothing can change that.
And the darker the world gets, the brighter His love, if we let Him, will shine.
The only thing that we have to fear is fear itself.
Fear blinds us. Keeps us from loving anyone other than ourselves.
Love casts out all fear (1 John 4:18).
May we be knit together in love and unity with all our brothers and sisters in Christ, creating a rainbow of solidarity, a little picture of heaven, where every tribe, every tongue, every nation bows down and worships Jesus.
"And they sang a new song, saying,
'Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed
people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation,
and you have made them a kingdom and priests to
our God,
and they shall reign on the earth.'" ~ Revelation 5: 8-10
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