SMOOTH TRANSITION

         It started as a rainy day off from school. Many mothers had the identical plan to save the day. There was a children’s entertainer in town appearing at the local theater. The children were full of excitement as they entered the darkened theater and took their seats. For approximately two hours they sang and laughed along with the entertainer enjoying every minute.

         Upon leaving the dark confines of the show the children covered their eyes to shield them from the bright afternoon sunlight that greeted them outside the exit. The sudden change from dark to light was unpleasant to say the least.

          The World is designed to avoid the discomfort of sudden changes in the environment. Those who live in temperate climates may have very cold winters and very hot summer’s but the Creator has built into nature pleasant transitional season’s to make the change a pleasure rather than a pain. As the season moves from fall to winter one might notice that each month has an average temperature that is a little colder than the previous month. The leaves on the trees change color before that fall off – a little at a time- to the bare branches of winter. The beginning of each day is a slow brightening of the nighttime sky called dawn before the sun rises to its full strength. The evening twilight is a slow increase in darkness until the night falls.

         Spend some time thinking about other examples of slow transition rather than stark contrast and you will be filled with gratitude to the Designer of our special World.

Guilt is to the soul like hunger is to the body. Both prompt corrective action to correct a fault.