Isn’t that an interesting pattern in the photo above? What do you think it is? Looking at it, it might be the pattern in tile, or a milled piece of wood, or some decorative piece in a home.
But it is not. It is purely light and shadow. Actually it is the shadow made by the blinds in my window on a blank page in my journal.
Each day we like to think we get a blank page for the day. Reality is, each day has a bit of the light and shadow from previous days. We get some light and shadow from what we already know we are facing that day. Whether that is real or perceived, it is still there.
One of the things I like best about the devotional I use, is in December one of the readings each day highlights an Old Testament Messianic prophecy. A foreshadow of what is to come, a casting of today in the past. No less real than a pattern on a tile or a decorative item. But rarely what we recognize at first glance or reading.
Cursory glances or readings are often encouraged in today’s sound bite, grab-‘em headlines kind of world. In this Advent season, may we look at what we allow to shape our thoughts, foreshadow our day, influence our sense of the eternal.
Just Sayin' 
I thought it was a corrugated material.
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