Pizza and Advent

 

The other day my daughter told me she was going to Iceland and my first thought was, “Is she going to get me a couple of pizzas or some chicken nuggets and why was she telling me about her shopping trip?” Of course, it wasn’t about going to shop in Iceland, it was that she was actually going to the country of Iceland – silly me!.
 
One of the main reasons for her going on the trip was to see the Northern Lights (The Aurora Borealis). Of course, if it’s cloudy there is not much to see. So, on the evening to go on a coach trip to see the lights, it was slightly cloudy, but hopefully they would be able to see something. Well, they did see the lights although somewhat hazy. As they returned to the coach my granddaughter turned round and suddenly the cloud had lifted and there was the most spectacular sight they had ever seen. Cameras clicked, and phones flashed as people around them all stood in amazement. The tourists were treated to the most awe inspiring view (some of you may have seen the lights yourselves).
 
On her return a few days later I asked my daughter what it was like and her first comment was, “It’s so hard to describe such a wonder”. She used words like, unbelievable, beautiful, amazing, spectacular and awe inspiring, and yet still struggled to share the beauty of what she had witnessed. The picture above is one of the pictures she actually took. She said to me that how could anyone see a scene like that and not believe in a magnificent Creator God.
 
When she returned to work, one of her managers asked her about her trip and she witnessed with these words, “You can’t see a sight like that and tell me there is no God”, with that the manager put his arm around her and simply said, “I know”. I don’t know where that man’s walk of faith is, but I feel that God had witnessed to my daughter and my daughter had witnessed to her manager.
 
The words from Psalm 9:1 seem appropriate, “I will praise You, O Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders”. Of course, as Psalm 19 expresses it, “The Heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the works of His hands ….. night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard …… their voice to the ends of the world”.
 
What a way to finish this ‘Thought’ is to quote Psalm 8:1 “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens”. We have a cosmic God above all space and time. This Sunday is the start of the season of Advent, the promise of Jesus, the Light of the World.