A normal day- can there be such a thing?

Many things in life are normal. We have our routines and we rush around filling and fulfilling our lives. But some things in life are not usual. Take for instance the sunrise on Tuesday morning. The sight of a purple and pink sky out of the kitchen window was amazing. Add to that a clear rainbow with bright colours and an unfaltering arc. There are forecast storms and rather chilly conditions outside. Inside the stove warms the kitchen and ensures the porridge cooks.

When I need to get up at 430am to go to work, I suppose it’s not surprising that a magnificent sunrise makes my day. Later that evening, when driving down the worn highway back toward my hometown, the mist gathered in valleys and surrounded the trees. The rivers were flowing and at times the windscreen wipers needed to go on. The sun set in a much more forlorn style as dark clouds engulfed its light and it was swallowed by the horizon. And even this was no mistake.

Then when you combine that day, when my eyes were opened yet again to the beauty and surreal nature of God’s creation, we you combine it along with the rain Western Australia received over the past few days, it isn’t hard to acknowledge the control and wisdom of God. It’s almost impossible. He knows what we need, and He will provide. He is a God who remains true to His promises. He will never destroy the world with the flood, but rather showers the earth with blessings. In an age when the world is showing decay, when climate change and global warming are hot topics, when politics is encroached by carbon tax discussions, we have a greater hope. We know there is a higher authority, in greater control, the One who holds this earth in the palm of His hand.

As we confess in LD 10, God’s providence is His almighty and ever-present power whereby as with His hand He controls and governs all things so that... all things come not by chance but by His fatherly hand.

Will waking up at 430am ever seem normal? I suppose it just might become one of those things that make up my daily routine. But I sure hope that I will continue to be amazed at the wonder of what each new day brings; the continual, undeserved, and beautiful blessings from our majestic God.

Sometimes things for us are unusual. But we may live in the joyful comfort that they are all governed by our gracious Father.