The Sun

Ah yes. The sun. What a magical, wonderful thing. Gives us light in the day but still shines at night — even though we can’t see it.

We forget how wonderful it is. How life giving.

Without it we’d be frozen popsicles.

If you’re sun burned, you got too close too fast.

If you’re hot you may need to move away.

But if you’re cold you might consider living in California.

The sun in the sky and Jesus the son have some things in common.

The closer we are the hotter, more alive, more light there is.

The further away, the colder, more dead, more dark it is.

It’s easier for you to move closer to the sun than to wait for the sun to move to you.

Draw close to God and He will draw close to you.

God thoughtfully and playfully positioned a bunch of stuff all around us.

Nature with its trees and bees.

Rainbows, stars, and unicorns.

Relationships with mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

Friends.

Bad karaoke.

Little kids playing on the playground.

Is that kid stuck in the slide?

Maybe someone should help him out…

No really. Stop reading this and go help that kid out.

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Every single one of those things points to him.

Not the kid who was stuck in the slide.

To God.

The only things not pointing to him aren’t because they’re too far from him.

God is a magnet. When we’re close to him, when our hearts, minds, and souls are close to him, we point True North.

Dance with words and emotions that give you peace.

And when we have peace may we drop a peace bomb for every man, child, animal, and flower field that we encounter.

News flash.

The sun’s not going away.

We don’t have to shout from a rooftop until we’re blue in the face to tell others.

People don’t have a hard time believing that the sun exists.

They have a hard time remembering how good it is.