Iken: Dawn Across the Water.
Just a few moments,
just a few metres,
and one glorious riverscape
melts into another.
In the time needed
to take just a few paces
or a few breaths,
the rising sun eases away
from an inky cloud,
to splash a riot of reds, orange and yellows
into the dawn sky.
For the glory of the scattering
of a vast multitude of photons
illuminating the east:
I give thanks.
A few days break in Suffolk, East Anglia in a splendid riverside cottage is in itself a huge blessing. And during Monday’s Quiet time the morning dawned spectacularly. Again, it feels a huge privilege to be able to capture such moments on the phone’s camera - and then be able to reflect on the glory and shape words to express an experience like this. For anyone not familiar with the idea of photons, Wikipedia will give a good idea of why they are to be celebrated at such a moment !
This is also a good moment to notice that even the limited analytics I look at, to get a glimpse of what is going on on the blog, indicate that there are a lot of new readers coming aboard. You are very welcome and I am grateful to any of you who are sharing this content. In a world so dominated by science and technology, it feels a privilege to be able to offer ideas about the complementarity of faith and science in demonstrating God’s glory - and to know that others share my enthusiasm . May God bless you in your pilgrim journey.
