Around the spring and autumn equinoxes, from the mailbox of Christview Ministries Center, we can on a clear day look across the King's River Valley and see the sun rising over the distinctive hills that mark Berryville on the horizon. I assure you that the real scene is far more glorious than this photo can convey. Some days, the glory is beyond taking in, no matter how deeply I spontaneously inhale. I cannot imagine why I do not time my arrival at the mailbox to glimpse it each day.
There are constant glories to behold in this creation. The evening of September 27, as Judy and I ate supper, looking across the Keel's Creek Valley, we saw monarch butterflies passing overhead on their migration to Mexico. As sundown was nearing, we grabbed a camera and headed out to see if any of the intrepid fluttering pilgrims would choose to spend the night at Christview. Sure enough, some of them picked the southeast side of an oak tree, bordering our power line as it comes off C.R. 309.
The next morning I waited for the sun to get full light on the tree and caught a few sluggard monarchs still in bed, waiting for the warmth to strengthen their wings for flight.
But those lie-a-beds were one-by-one, stretching and mounting up with wings like...well, like monarchs, rulers of the earth, riding upon the winds toward their far-off goal.
Actually, Judy and I founded Christview in order to see such glimpses of glory in our guests and among those to whom and with whom we minister. Our founding text is 2 Corinthians 3:18: "And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another...."
The source of the transforming glory is described in 2 Corinthians 4:6: "For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."
Look to Jesus and glimpse the glory!
Grace and peace,
John
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