Our Colorful Creator

I am musing about...

Colors!

And why God made them.

And more specifically, for now...the colors of Autumn!

I mean, fall is just lovely, don't you agree? The warm glowing golds, the rich lavenders and maroons, the violets, reds and yellows.

The sky seems more blue, the clouds more white. The crisp air accentuates the boldness of the hues around us, and the chilliness adds to the warmth of fall's color palette.

The colorful landscape about us, has a way of making us feel cozy. Happy. I mean, how often, this time of year, do I hear someone (often strangers at the gas pump, or fellow hikers, whomever...) say "I just love this time of year!!"

It is like God is giving us a big hurrah before he ushers in the drab browns and grays of winter.

And in thinking about Winter, I know I am, colorfully speaking, giving it a bad wrap. I think C.S. Lewis would agree. After all, what did he say about Winter? Something about Narnia being a place where it is "always winter and never Christmas". But let me interject here, that their is a redeeming color to Winter. Whiteness. The redeeming, glistening whiteness of pure, fresh fallen snow, covering the brown earth, has rich Christian symbolic potential. And the season of Winter has many redeeming qualities as well. But this post is more about colors, then seasons....so musing onward....

Speaking of C.S. Lewis, I had googled him to find that quote on Winter and found one I like even better (for this post). He shared that as Christians "We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ." I like that!

So what are the "Christian colors" we are to show? Something to consider and possibly a good topic for a future post :)

Our awesome God is all about color with His magnificent creation. Flowers, fruits, landscapes, pigmentation, sunsets, "purple headed mountains and the (blue) rivers flowing by". He obviously delights in beauty and variation and created us to as well!

Can you imagine the colorful glory that awaits us someday? I would venture to say it is beyond our ability to imagine. Colors never seen before. Hues of heightened intensity. Shades of unparaleled granduer.

So lets grasp the rich beauty of the colors of fall. Let it enthrall us and entice us to persevere through the cozy, relaxing, glowing, albeit gray colored days of Winter, while we look forward to the awakening of the colorful Spring that God will have waiting for us, ready to burst, on the other side!

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