Childhood is a very important time in a person’s life. Those who raise children can either make or break them. If broken during these fragile, formative years, the outcome can be drastic. It can take a whole lifetime to heal, and oftentimes there are wounds that scar until death.
Do you agree with the above?
Can you imagine what would happen to a tree if it didn’t get sunlight? The sun is absolutely necessary for most trees to grow and flourish. It is needed for photosynthesis to happen, and in turn sugar is produced, which feeds the tree oxygen and then is released into the air (source). We need oxygen to breathe – to live.
The above piece serves as a spiritual allegory for me. When the sun doesn’t shine, I’m weak and droopy. My colors aren’t vibrant, but more like monochrome and depressive. I need the sun. When I’m far from it I suffer depression. I get tired and fatigued. I get irritable.
I want to be that big, lush, tall, strong, mature, beautiful tree. I guess that means I need to keep turning my face toward the sun and allow it to do its work.
How about you?
We are like windows
Stained with colors of the rainbow
Set in a darkened room
Till the bridegroom comes to shining through
Then the colors fall around our feet
Over those we meet
Covering all the grey that we see
Rainbow colors of assorted hues
Come exchange your blues
For His love that you see shining through me
My colors grow so dim
When I start to fall away from Him
But up comes the strongest wind
That He sends to blow me back into his arms again
And then the colors fall around my feet
Over those I meet
Changing all the grey that I see
Rainbow colors of the Risen Son
Reflect the One
The One who came to set us all free
We are like windows
Stained with colors of the rainbow
No longer set in a darkened room
‘Cause the bridegroom wants to shine from you
(You can listen to this song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb6ShUYq-1k)
I love Keith Green’s music. Yes, it’s a bit outdated and all, but the message continues to stand strong. His songs and life have had a great impact on my life and have spoken profoundly into my heart.
I am a Christian. A follower of Jesus. But I haven’t always been one. And this song soooooo tells it how it is for me. God has made me colourful. He’s made everyone colourful. But until we yield to his plans and purposes for us, we remain set in a darkened room. Stuck. Unable to shine. Unable to glow. Unable to make any sort of a difference that is truly relevant and eternal.
I am so happy to say that I am now showing my colors. I am shining and bringing life to wherever I am and to wherever I go. We live in such a grey world, full of pain, suffering, violence, selfishness, etc. We need splashes of color so that we handle it.
I have discovered why I am here on earth. Why I exist? Where I am going when I die? What the meaning of it all is. And I am sooooo thankful to the Son – to the Way, Truth and Life for staining me with the colors of the rainbow and freeing me from my shackles that kept me from allowing His colors to shine through me and from me.
Are you letting your colors shine? Are they falling around your feet and changing all the grey that you see? Please leave a comment and let me know how you let your colors shine. Or, if you’re stuck in a darkened room and would like to know more about how to get out and let your colors shine, let me know.
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