Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh, 1864
If we have eyes to see—and as Christians, we should—we live in a world rich with significance. God made everything, and all of it matters to him; he loves all of it, he is in control in all of it, and he is utterly good. As such, we should be people who live with deep and playful seriousness. On one hand, we ought to take everything and everyone seriously because the weight of eternity rests on each moment and is inherent in every person. On the other, we can hold all of it lightly because that weight doesn’t rest on us: God holds it in his hands.
Photo ©2017 . Free for use.