Color Vision
We took a drive through the National Arboretum yesterday on my day off. We oohhed and aahhed at trees while the kids rode their bikes and big wheel.
Don't know why, but I'm thanking God for colors today! The combinations of red and yellow and orange leaves were absolutely spectacular!
When was the last time you thanked God for the seven million cones in your retina that enable you to see approximately seven million different colors? While you're at it, on behalf of your shins, go ahead and thank Him for the one hundred and twenty million rods in your retina that give you night vision.
We take color for granted, but it is such an amazing gift from God. I have a little book, Children's Letters to God. One of my favorites is: "Dear God, I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday. That was cool."
Just thanking God for fall colors.
By the way, I think part of the glorified body deal when we get to heaven will include glorified senses. I think we'll hear angels sing in octaves that will blow our auditory cortexes! And we'll see millions of new colors that will blow away our visual cortexes!
The poet, John Ruskin said, "The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most."
Don't know why, but I'm thanking God for colors today! The combinations of red and yellow and orange leaves were absolutely spectacular!
When was the last time you thanked God for the seven million cones in your retina that enable you to see approximately seven million different colors? While you're at it, on behalf of your shins, go ahead and thank Him for the one hundred and twenty million rods in your retina that give you night vision.
We take color for granted, but it is such an amazing gift from God. I have a little book, Children's Letters to God. One of my favorites is: "Dear God, I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday. That was cool."
Just thanking God for fall colors.
By the way, I think part of the glorified body deal when we get to heaven will include glorified senses. I think we'll hear angels sing in octaves that will blow our auditory cortexes! And we'll see millions of new colors that will blow away our visual cortexes!
The poet, John Ruskin said, "The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most."
6 Comments:
I had the same thoughts this morning out walking the dog with all the leaves on the ground. It was an autumn wonderland!
Praise God from whom all blessings (and colors) flow.
I love that quote from Children's Letters to God. That childlike perspective is so amazing.
That really is a great quote from Children's Letters to God. I may have to pick that up.
Sometimes you can't help but wish you were somehow able to keep the pure perspective that children have.
I am blessed to work in my home office, and our home be located on a 4 acre country lot. From every window in our home I see God's beauty!
Let's think about this. (my dad who is colored blind is my launching off point for this thought) There are two forms of colord blindness (to my understanding) One where you see basically gray tones, the other when you are able to see the primary colors. Can you imagine looking at the sun rises/sets and spring /fall color shows while being colored blind?!
Stay with me... there are glasses now that will allow one to look throught the eyes of a colored blind person.
Isn't that how our lives were before Jesus came in and took over??? We start out with the gray tones as unblievers... then we are able to see the primary colors as we get to know Jesus and His love for us...
THEN... praise God when we start running with Jesus and in His will, we are able to see ALL the colors!
Just a thought from SC!
Great thought Jane from SC :) My Youth Pastor is color blind...He's been on my staff for over 7 years now and I forget about his color blindness. We just built and occupied our new church and our Sanctuary chairs are Purplish...for a year, he thought they were greyish blue :) He was shocked to discover they weren't.
I am "Color Blind" - what drs. call "red-green color deficient". Basically I see varying shades of colors in certain light conditions and spectrums that are difficult to tell what color they are. So sometimes purple will look blue or navy. Sometimes red will look brownish and sometimes green and brown will look the same. But I can tell grass is green, I can see the orange on the trees and the red and I know when the Alabama Crimson Tide takes on the Tennesseee Vols which team is which.
But many times i've put on two differnt colored socks thinking they were the same and i've blown a few traffic lights because I couldnt see the green light because it blended in with the white street lights.
I never ever one single time have tought of it as a handicap or that somehow I am "deficient". I am simply unique and regardless of this very minor irritation, God has blessed me beyond belief.
God - thanks for the Cones in my eyes - even the ones that dont work. Because they dont - I see the world differently than most people, but when I look at it through your eyes, I see a world that needs Jesus and I can be part of helping them to see that to. May the world see Jesus in vivid living color through me.
-dave anderson
-crosspoint church
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