A sea that never stops coming in

Have you ever thought about the fact that the colors we have been seeing this month in the trees are the true colors of those trees? Ann Voskamp writes,

That all summer, the chlorophyll of the leaf, all that green, absorbs the sun and releases food. And it is this cycle of chlorophyll that cloaks the leaves’ pure colors. “But come the fall of the year — the chlorophyll ebbs. And the green dims.” All this brilliance, all this burning God-love – it is always here.

Life can blind and truth can hide in plain sight. But this blazing love of God for you never stops burning underneath everything.

If we would stop producing the chlorophyll of hurry and worry — we’d see the colors of grace, right where we are.

Life has all these blinding cycles of its own – but our God is always blazing love.

When there is an intentional slowing to whisper thanks to God — there is an incredible awakening to the burning love of God.

The ungrateful see little of His great love; but the grateful feel their heart is a shore and His love is a sea that never stops coming in.

Only a grateful heart sees God’s great love everywhere.

It’s as simple and profound as this: We would worry less if we gave thanks more.

The chlorophyll of hardened cynicism drains.

And it begins to happen and nothing could be truer than what Pascal said: “Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.”

The shadows dim –

and all the trees and all the thankful, they ignite, seeing and believing the true colors of now.