Friends and I were talking last night about how each day is going to get a little longer in daylight from here on out. We do get some depressive feelings in the darkness – and yet that is where the Lord can show us His Light to follow. 

I know recently I have marvelled at these early mornings to see the Morning Star, and appreciate how constant it is. It IS a marvel in how the seasons work, how coordinating the calendars and time tries to match and interpret how the world spins, the sun heats, and even the moon gets in the act with ocean tides and being a nightlight. imagine those sailors on the endless ocean voyages thousands of years who studied the stars and moon and most importantly got comfort from them!  I mean Who could set up such an intricate system where the system works year after year but also put into play what it influences – how that still will work, modified to adapt. Amazing, and if it were anyone other than God could plan it, it would not be so coordinated nor so much diversity in the system.

And yet the Morning Star moves. Constant and constantly moves.  It does. It was higher and higher in my window these past few weeks, but I failed to notice that it was moving  (or that I was) until I had to lean lower to see it so high, out of my window frame. Well of course it does move, gradually yet measured, and it’s a planet not a star, that reflects the sun SO brightly that we think it’s a star. And guess what? all the components of the universe move. Really… amazing how to allow it to be measured and yet easily looks like it could be chaos. Amazing. 

A conversation I had with a Hasidic Jew (from Brooklyn) on an airplane once, on one European trip, included a discussion of how God makes things, holds creatures and people, and holds them in His Hand until they are placed onto the Earth and into the system we see, that we only see them when they are revealed to us, and yet they always exist in God’s Hand and eye and vision. That is an intriguing thought. We do have such a finite view of each moment let alone eternity planned, that we really make preliminary conclusions of how things work. We make conclusions but don’t have enough longevity to pull in all the data. And yet, it’s a moving system, how could we. It is a Moving System – imagine God Moving it all.

How we each are held is something we think about from our vantage point and often can’t see past our vantage point, we are incapable from seeing it ALL from God’s vantage point, yet with the Holy Spirit to move us we are a part of this immense immeasurable Plan. Just like He sees so BIG, ALL THINGS, He also sees so small, every person, every hair, every tear. And before we know it He will have moved the wind or the circumstances around us, of us, with us, to freshly start a new day or new attitude or new life.  

If we are in bad straits, let us wait it out, change it out, shift the cards we are played for a better deal, pray our way into our walk – walk into a problem or away from it – but pray it thru. If we have to move a situation forward, let us move it (for us or others). If we have to take a step back, let us just not trip over the past and build upon it. Remember that we and especially God can wait out how HE aligns the times and the people. This may not be the quick fix – but in the fullness of time, we will forget the small stuff. The great song lyric from Psalm 30 is  ‘There may be pain in the night, but Joy comes in the morning’.

Even the Morning Star moves, and we move compared to it. Let us let God make His Way in our lives, today, forever, and pray to know that You Lord, in Your Joy, will move us more Your Way.

Amen 

Psalm 30 – New King James Version – The Blessedness of Answered Prayer – A Psalm – A Song at the dedication of the house of David.

I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up, and have not let my foes rejoice over me. O Lord my God, I cried out to You, and You healed me. O Lord, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Sing praise to the Lord, you saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name. For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, BUT JOY COMES IN THE MORNING.

Now in my prosperity I said, “I shall never be moved.” Lord, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled. I cried out to You, O Lord; And to the Lord I made supplication: “What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth? Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me; Lord, be my helper!”

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, to the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.