Parallels

Temperate weather recently melted the lake’s thin cloak of ice, re-exposing jumpy waves not long after their quiet hibernation beneath the frozen glaze had begun.

Today arctic gusts swelled countless legions of breakers and pushed their snapping white caps toward our shore with greater intensity as the hours rolled along.  The teeming water seemed invigorated, but also exhausted as it churned in response to the wind’s nagging insistence.  Perhaps it accepted and gloried in the adventure, unexpected as it was.  Perhaps it also wondered why the ice melted; why it was subjected to the raw wind even while expectantly awaiting another freeze on some other calm, cold night.

Sometimes human experience parallels days like this when we are roused and energized, but also stimulated to weariness. Perhaps we forget human beings are both spirit and matter, and as such subject to vast potentials of dynamic experience.  Perhaps it is helpful to remember that earthly life makes the most sense in the context of childlike acceptance and expectancy.