Green

Last night, Randy and I went for a ride on the motorcycle. We rode out in the country. The sun was going down and I was struck by the beauty of green everywhere. I love green. My eyes are green. It is my favorite color. The wind roared in my ears and the world looked so beautiful. I saw dark greens, rich greens, forest green, light green, yellow green and it just spoke of life. Life in abundance. All the world supported by beautiful, beautiful shades of green. I know God loves green too. He has to love it, it is everywhere. Do you ever look around and feel like you know Him more by looking at what beauty He has made? I think the colors of the sunset touching everything around us is one of His gifts to us.

Then I started to think more about the life before my eyes. Grass that supports life around the world and comes back no matter how devastated, how burned down, the green of the rain forests that stretch as if to the sky, the plants that turn their faces to the light, I thought of it all, down to the chlorophyll pumping through the plants. The beautiful colors and the actual science of chlorophyll makes me think.

And then, I wondered, what color is my soul?


Does His presence inside my heart make me full of the colors of Life, His life in me, that He can see?

Consider this about Chlorophyll..
"It's usually easy to tell when a food has significant amounts of chlorophyll, because chlorophyll provides the green color that is found in grasses, leaves, and many of the vegetables that we eat. These plants and foods would not be green without their chlorophyll, since chlorophyll pigments reflect sunlight at exact appropriate wavelengths for our eyes to detect them as green. The chlorophyll a molecule actually reflects light in a blue-green range (about 685 nanometer wavelengths), while chlorophyll b reflects light in a more yellow-green color (about 735 nanometer wavelengths). The overall affect, however, is for us to see varying shades of a color we would simply call "green."

So maybe I am green too. How green do I appear to you Abba?

I am full of life. Everlasting, evergreen..abundant. I am eternal, but only because of You. Because of the life You put inside of me. Because of the life You gave so I could live too. I hope, my beloved, my Abba that when you look at me, all you see is Green.