What Color is Your Stone?

Hebrews 4:12-16

I named this blog what I did because sometimes I don't know what to say. Today is one of those days. I can't explain why I have no words except that maybe I feel a little disconnected from the world around me. I get like this sometimes, as I'm sure you do. Let's just put this day down as a mood swing.

I long for the days when a mood ring would tell us all we needed to know about ourselves. (Raise your hand if you remember mood rings.) One look at the stone's color would tell me exactly how I needed to make adjustments to myself. A black stone meant I needed to take a break, an orange stone meant you better back off. A purple stone meant I was in a lovey-dovey mood, a green stone meant all was as should be. 

On the rainbow of colors a stone could be, today it would be yellow; distracted, unsettled. Of course, as I write this it is possible that my stone would turn from yellow to blue because for some reason when I connect with you and God through Christ in these writings I always feel happy and a calmness comes over me.

Today's passage reminds me that God is like the mood rings of old. God can see our moods, God knows what we're going through, and before God "no creature is hidden." For no particular reason I find comfort in the knowledge that God knows me that well. It brings me a sense of inner peace in knowing I don't have to be, or behave in, a certain way other than the way that is true to myself. That, my friends is enough to begin to improve my mood.

Look, it's turning blue!