God's Grandeur

Lobster boat off Southport, ME

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; 

                                                                                                           Gerard Manley Hopkins 

     I love to chase the sunrise.  It pulls me out of bed!  I will be lying comfortably in the sack, and then the alarm goes off inside--and I am out on the rocks breathing int he cold salt area waiting for the sun to rise.  And I wait with everything else that breathes in the new day. What tells the birds that the light is coming? Among all the sounds--there is that one voice that wakes up and knows that something miraculous is on the way--the new day.  Then as the light rises on the horizon, the golden highway spreads across the water -- you could walk on it!  The lobster boats come into view out of once what was darkness--life is now more than stirring but very much alive.  There on every living thing is the light of Light.  We are made to reflect it--to show it forth as God's epiphany in the world.  And what greater grandeur can we receive, to what deep darkness do hearts still prefer?  Each day moves in the heart and asks which we will choose.