Here up in the North Forty, I am continually astonished to see the weather variations, the sun and moon variances and the way the shadows swathe the landscapes folds.
Perhaps the most lovely to see is the sun's effect on all it touches. The papery bark of the birch tree is haloed by luminescent rays, the wispy limbs remain dark veins across the sky while the whole tree's silhouette lays long and lank in shadowy form on the ground.
As I walk outdoors, the sun is ever present at eye level, keeping time with my footstep, piercing my vision and filtering all I see through its brilliance. This of course is caused by the effect of the earth's tilt on its axis, the location of the far north in relation to the yearly rotation, and the constancy of the sun as a fixed, immovable light source. Is not GOD our fixed and immovable source of divine light, and is He not gracious enough to rotate us off of perpendicular so that we are only able to see Him in all His brilliancy?
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