Ever watch an entire sunrise? I mean the whole show, not just the highlight of the moment when the sun breaks the horizon. Technically, it takes about 90 minutes from what they call Astronomical Twilight until the official sunrise, but the beginning is so quiet and imperceptible you can’t see it.
I’ve only noticed about 45 minutes from total dark to glaringly bright. It’s methodical – like a slow, powerful drama. Watching, you’re reminded that God’s pace is not rushed. He doesn’t skip any steps. You can’t capture the highlights.
A sunrise is subtle and raucous – it ends up blazing and attention-getting but it gets there slowly. It has a very different feel from my life. Inside me, I hear Max with the E Street Band, or sometimes the TWO drummers of the Allman Brothers. A sunrise is Bolero – you have to hear the whole thing or you haven’t heard it. And there aren’t any single videos of Bolero on YouTube; they’re so long they have to be divided up.
The divine drummer’s rhythm seems old fashioned, not modern. As out-of-date as a fifty-year old jazz quartet. But unless I get in step with God’s pace, I’ll never see a whole sunrise. Or have his expectations of what the pace of living should be. And that pace fills the whole earth, everyday.
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This is more of The God Show. We’re in the nature channel, seeing ways the whole earth is filled with God’s glory. The previous post is HERE.
The God Show is five channels (in addition to the Bible) that don't change over time or according to culture, where God's ways, invisible attributes, eternal power and divine nature are clearly perceived but often missed: 1. Nature, 2. Authority, 3. Family, 4. Marriage, 5. You. Really, he's all over the place.
You can get caught up HERE or at the link on the right under “other writings.”
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