An angel showed up in my dining room a few days ago.
He was not intimidating.
He offered me a ring.
I asked who Jesus was to him.
His gaze went upward, his light changed and he began to proclaim that Jesus was the Christ, the one who is who was and who ever shall be.
I looked at the ring.
He looked at me.
This ring is an understanding of eternity that you shall need. I am giving it to you because of all the death that has been around you.
If it goes into your arms it will become strength to do.
If it goes into your thighs it will become faith.
If it goes into your heart it becomes hope.
If it goes into your belly it becomes joy.
If it goes into your back it becomes understanding.
If it goes into your feet it becomes mercy.
If it goes into your knees it becomes humility.

I asked where it might go to become love. He answered that love is already structured into me and that is why this ring works.

Where would you have chosen? I chose the belly. I miss the joy before so much death.

I heard a sermon after that. The sermon was being preached out of John. It talked about how John came to prepare the way. The valley will be filled. The mountains brought low. The crooked ways will be made straight and the rough places will be made smooth.

And it came to me, that the earth is round. And that if all these landscape changes took place, the earth would look a lot like that smooth ring. And I wonder if all of our paths were put together, and mapped out as terrain, if the terrain of the earth over time might be a reflection. I pause. I ponder.

It is the glory of the Lord to conceal a matter. It is the glory of the king to search it out.