Grand Canyon

I had run across this reflection the other day from the book Deepening Your Conversation with God, by Ben Patterson, and I thought that I would share it with you as well.

"One evening I was sitting on the edge of my favorite place on earth, the Grand Canyon, watching the sun go down. It's a magnificent sight; the changing of the light, the continual slow-motion movement of the shadows is like a visual fugue. One of my sons was with me, and we were rhapsodizing about the majesty, the glory of God manifest in that place, when I noticed his face outlined against the canyon and the sunset. My dear son, my beloved son, I thought. Then it struck me: "You know," I said to him, "there's something here that is even more glorious and godlike than this canyon." He looked at me with a frown of disbelief, and said, "What could that possibly be?" I grinned and said, "You.""

"More than even the Grand Canyon, he showed the glory of God, because it's not of canyons, but only of humans, that God says, "I made them in my image, like me.""

"So, of course, God is most glorified when those he made in his image become fully alive, all they were created to be. This can happen but only one way: through the vision of God. Paul says, "And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit" (2 Cor. 3:18). God is glorified as we come alive, his mirth roaring in our veins, as we awaken to the vision of God."

You are wonderfully and beautifully made in the loving hands of your Father. Go out today and continue to be that shining light of God's love in the world, and reflect out His love on all that you meet today.