The Principle of Vanishing Significance
I wrote this post a couple of years ago, but since this is the weekend that we celebrate the resurrection for 2014, I have spent a little time meditating on the importance of that fact. I hope it's a blessing to you and an aid in letting Resurrection Sunday be powerful for you this year. It all seemed so small; a brown outline with little dots of blue and one larger empty brown area. What am I talking about? Why, the Grand Canyon , or course. For many of you who have flown over it at 30,000 feet as you crossed the US for some reason, you may remember the first time the pilot said “now out on the left side of the plane, you will notice the Grand Canyon …” Somehow, since you were so far removed from it; it didn’t seem so grand. There are a lot of times in life when this is true. Even the events that are important to us seem to be reduced in magnitude as time moves us further and further away from them. That time I got knocked down and took a lickin