On this Monday morning after Thanksgiving 2023, the air outside my window is shifting … waves of damp fog lift … then settle and hover in pockets along the edge of the woods. Water droplets hang on the bottom of each clear round patio light. The deck and grass are wet. Autumn’s last leaves are spiraling down hard and fast like snow.
Thinning and thickening fog seems a perfect picture of our just-completed Thanksgiving week as well as a very accurate metaphor for the challenges of living the Christian life and our individual family’s life on earth. We often can’t see our way ahead, which describes walking by faith. God tells us we all have a veil over our eyes (2 Corinthians 3:16-18) that hinders our sight no less than does thick fog. And dense fog is what I felt in my head on Wednesday last week as I succumbed to some virus and began coughing around the clock.
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