Scientific curiosity led to the discovery that the earth revolves around the sun. So, scientifically speaking, the sun don’t rise. But you and I know we were created by a living, loving, artful God. So, we know we can say the sun does rise. Every day. Because you and I understand the difference between literal and metaphorical.
Yeah, don’t tell me the sun don’t rise.
Because I’ve seen it with my own eyes. For over seven decades.
A sunrise is a metaphor, an allegory, or even a simile. It’s how your creative mind “sees” things. Either as you’d like them to be, or as they appear to be. In both cases you get a sense of the imagination forged into your spirit. God didn’t have to give imagination. He could have just designed you to see whatever He preferred you to see. Or to perceive only those things necessary for survival.
But God loves. Not that ridiculous worldly love that’s here today and gone tomorrow. His love is real and enduring. And your imagination is intangible proof of His love. You can think with logic and reason. But you can also imagine and create. You can soar into the skies, dive into the depths of the oceans, paint rainbows in the leaves of trees, and even rise above whatever physical limitations you might have.
But those limitations will never make you say the sun don’t rise.
Where will you let the gift of imagination take you today?
When the sun does rise,
And it surely will,
We will run straight to
The aroma hill.
We will pluck one rose
From its thorny vine,
And refresh our lips
With a sip of wine.
We will find delight
In the sweet bouquet
Of this flowered hill…
Of this brand new day.
It will be a feast
For the nose and eyes,
And it all begins
When the sun does rise.
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