Dancing Rain Drops

The light shone through them and they danced as the sun took its first peek over the fence. These droplets glistened everywhere…it was like I was standing in the middle of a beautiful quartz stone! Light seemed to hop from branch to branch even in the stillness of first light. 

Honestly, you would think by now that ‘things’ would settle into a place of normalcy here. But, I guess just like life, there’s always something around the corner that we haven’t seen before. And I must say, I am very happy for that! A life that is too predictable is probably a sign of a bit too much of my own control. A life of expectation is one that leaves God room for His plan, not mine….like dancing rain drops! :)

But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see Him—and in seeing Him, become like Him.

All of us who look forward to His Coming stay ready,

with the glistening purity of Jesus’ life as a model for our own.

I John 3:2-3

We’re like those drops, ya know. He has put us everywhere on this earth He made. Scattered about His kingdom and He moves us, shimmers thru us and shines His life thru all us little drops. His Grace makes it possible to pool our perspective with His, to be poured out of our will and reflect only His desire for us….and that ‘s when the real shimmering begins!

Guess, from a not-so-shimmery perspective, it is also possible to loose our shine when we are settled in our own ‘stuff’. Kinda like a muddy puddle, no shimmer, all yuck.

Our lives with Christ are built on working on getting that muckiness out and looking to hand over all that He shows us needs to go. However many days He has given us here, we have the blessing to glisten…to seek Him over everything else. That doesn’t come naturally, but it can come one day, one step, one drop at a time….

rather be dancin’ on the branches, wouldn’t you?!?!?

Where is this newborn, who is the King of the Jews? When we were far away in the East we saw His star, and we have followed its glisten and gleam all this way to worship Him.

Matthew 2:2 

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