Icicle Cloud Perspective

February has been an exceptionally snowy month in Eastern Oregon as it has been in many other parts of the nation.  Winter has been fierce in storms and inconvenience.  Traveling through our mountain roads can be hazardous and many choose to stay home rather than pit their driving skills against the elements.  Occasionally, the more adventurous cannot ignore the allure of winter sports and master the weather in the fun of snowmobiling, skiing and sledding in nearby locales.  The rest of us are content to gather around the warmth of a wood stove, grateful to be indoors and watch the snow fall through the window pane.

I took this photo from inside the house.  As I looked out the kitchen window on a rare day of blue sky and sunshine, I noticed this icicle formation that seemed to appear from the sky.  It had its own cloud effect that seemingly reached from the sky to the earth with tendrils of frozen water.  This wonderful creation of ice was attached to the eaves of the roof giving an illusory appearance with the help of camera angle perspective.

Perspective simply means the ability to view.  It can be defined in actual visual sight or characterized from internal human experience.  A mountain can be viewed from different angles, each having contrasting descriptions, yet it is the same mountain.  Human perspective is more difficult, as an experience can shade how we internalize 'truth'.  It can heal or hurt.  Prejudices can be formed, opinions made, conclusions drawn, positions taken.  What is the antidote for this?  How can objectivity arise?

On a clear day

Rise and look around you

And you'll see who you are

On a clear day

How it will astound you

That the glow of your being

Outshines every star

You'll feel part of every mountain sea and shore

You can hear 

From far and near

A word you've never, never heard before...

And on a clear day... On a clear day..

You can see forever...

and ever...

And ever more...

(Writers:  Lerner Alan Jay, Lane Burton)

Billy Graham says it this way....

"Never forget that God isn't bound by time the way we are.

We see only the present moment; God sees everything.

We see only part of what He is doing; He sees it all." 

COME!  Join me at The Turn-Up Patch in two weeks on Monday, March 25th....