Random reading and thoughts

"It is true there is an ebb and flow, yet the sea remains the sea"


These words of the troubled genius, Vincent Van Gogh, were in my reading today.

There were few gentle tides flowing in his life, rather, crashing waves, carrying life’s’ debris in their surging fury.

His history haunts his brush strokes like the whisper of ghosts.
Yet he created masterpieces that have stood the test of time and criticism, to remain as treasures .......

Have you been there? Overwhelmed by the fury of the wave? Feeling tossed like broken driftwood? Seeming to be at the mercy of powers beyond your control? I've visited that shore one too many times!

In the pace of our world and the mission to which we are committed, it is easy to get caught up in a surging stormy world. It can pull with the relentless drag of a rip tide on a stormy beach.

But ,the God who set boundaries for the seas, is still the One who puts storms in the perspective of eternity......... and takes us to solid vantage point, to see in it, His power.

Storms wash away our insubstantial castles!

God creates masterpieces in storms!



"....our light and mometary trials are working for us an eternal weight of glory"