A couple of weeks ago I was driving home and the sky was a perfect blue.  It was one of those days where even though Mt. Rainier was over 100 miles from my location, it took up the entire foreground of the scene with all of the forests close by seemingly underneath the mountain as a footstool would be at the base of a chair.   For further effect, the full moon was directly above Rainier’s summit as if it was the angel at the top of the Christmas tree.

 However, it looked like this mountain-all 14,410′-was bowing down before the moon as a knight kneeling before the scepter of his king.  Interestingly, though, the moon was magnificently only reflecting the light of the sun.  I have thought about this and I find it ironic that we as humans sometimes worship or bow or even just reverence the things that are huge in our life and yet those things themselves are paying homage to something larger still that is merely reflecting other glory found elsewhere.

For example, we think mankind is so wonderful or that technology is so advanced and we exalt in our “excellence”.  However, we are merely reflecting light or absorbing light that comes from another source.  So often I aspire to sit as the moon did above this great mountain and feel proud or good about myself while ignorantly forgetting that at my very best I could be a good moon-incapable of producing my own light yet reflecting the light from a different Son, Jesus Christ.

 In the words of Steven Curtis Chapman, “…I am not home yet.”

And so I enter this great conversation with you….