What is a single life in the grand scheme of things? Sometimes the sense of being just a pebble among other pebbles can bring an apathetic greeting to the dawn of another day. The reality of just rolling with each moment in the unpredictable and unplanned events, being tossed around with the crashing realities of oncoming waves that carry us back and forth against the hard places of life can bring a feeling of futility, frustration, and fragility that can promote a sigh of relief at a momentary lull of coming to rest on solid ground. Our absorption with our own individual experience can fuel a warped perspective of existence.
It is in the rolling and tossing and crashing that we become cleansed, refined, smoothed and polished as tesserae in the mosaic of God's beautiful design for creation. We are His "living stones", chosen and precious to Him, if indeed we are often rejected by others. The gathering and casting off of these living stones is all part of His plan in the changing course of our lives. Although we feel the anguish of the emotional effects of this, we are continually being placed purposefully by a Mighty God with a higher perspective of the whole of His conceptualization.
We are born of God and formed for His glory. We have no understanding of the perfection of His glory on this side of Heaven and so we must trust Him to continually transform us into His perfect image. We are part of the whole and as a part we are yet whole...wholly unique...wholly sized...wholly detailed...wholly fitted for our place in the extravagant design of His expression of glory.
Rise up with the enthusiasm of a child today and take your place on the rolling tides of being and becoming. Allow yourself to receive a renewed sense of amazement and wonder at the possibilities of "per chance" placement among the pebbles each new day as we are touched and changed with every gathering and casting of His hand.
"And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house..." (1Peter 2:4-5)
