If you know me, you know I am a nerd. I love science and art and the moon…I started to add nature but, I don’t like sweltering heat or arctic cold or hurting animals or crickets but these are part of our natural world so…I will end my list with the seasons.

When I lived in Wyoming, I missed experiencing the beauty of full seasons. The cycles we all experience are worth celebrating.

Today is the Winter Solstice–the shortest day of the year. It is the day when in the Northern hemisphere, we are leaning furthest away from our power source (the sun) as we revolve around it (the sun). This is a metaphor for SO many things.

What is a day? A day is us, spinning on our individual axis. Just like life–all over the place and in the same place at the same time.

What is a season? A season is that part of our experience that will certainly come back again, predictably but later in life.

What is a year? That full revolution around the source of our power. Seeing it up closest in Spring, from furthest away in Winter.

When I think about the sun, as the source of our power, I cannot help but think about THE SON. God made made human, alive and in flesh…phew!

Drawing nearer even when we are naturally furthest away is what I seek to do…always.

Grateful for this season…

Have a MARY CHRISTMAS people (Luke 1:26-38).