Well, given we set a new record for consecutive days of over one hundred degrees, the walking was quite pleasant, with a Sturgeon moon hanging low in the western sky.(An August full moon is called a ‘Sturgeon moon’ because during August the fish is most easily caught for some reason. The Sturgeon is native to the Great Lakes.)
The moon did remind me of the ending of a bedtime prayer I learned in my youth, The prayer ended with the reminder that the moon in the sky was watching over the sleeping earth, so it was safe to go to sleep.
It brought to mind the frantic life so many lead, our thoughts twisted and turned this and way and that by words, words, words, endless and often mindless words. Words selling and promising and enticing us to go that way, or this. Politicians have teams of advisors who are ‘expert’ in using words to persuade, allure, and sell, above all, sell, their particular agenda as the only one for the country.
An article in the paper speaks of children learning to compromise as they start a new school year. That means finding a solution that suits each.
That begins with listening to each other, really hearing what they are saying, instead of just waiting till they finish so you can speak your own piece.
Jesus had this problem with the Sanhedrin membership. “You search the Scripture, for in them you think you have eternal life, and they ate they which testify of Me,” John5,39-40. They read their Bible only to see what they wanted to see, and never did discover the truths about Jesus.
Sadly, that is too often true about religions, isn’t it? Folks just hear or believe what seems in their best interest, and they so often settle for that instead of seeing the whole picture, that where sin is, there needs to be a way for that sin to be paid for, and that way was Jesus death on the cross.
The quiet morning walk with that full moon hanging there reminds me always that God is still in the heavens, and that things with him are right for me, and serene, and at peace. I pray this same peace of God calms your troubled hearty and brings you quiet rest.
GPD 8/16/11
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