The God Clock

Despite the fact that this is a theological meditation, I’m not being over-dramatic with the title. Indeed, our experience of this very real time piece is quite often as harrowing as the title suggests.

 

My whole college experience was an on-going trial in learning to live by God’s timing. We humans are very good at gold-leafing the promises of God’s perfection and provision onto all manner of stomach-churningly Americana wall hangings. However, when the moment of faith comes, the moment when we must sit in the chair, we question. We don’t question God’s power or his promises to provide, we want to know where the provision is coming from.

 

Three-Person God

 

I’ve been studying archetypal images for an upcoming novel and that got mixed up with thinking about stained glass windows (how they were used to teach Bible stories to the illiterate), which all wound up pitching a tent in my belief that the natural world was designed to be a mirror for the essential qualities of God.