Friday, October 30, 2020 Upside-Down World

I’ve been listening to a book by Ron Suskind called Life, Animated, about the experiences he and his wife had raising an autistic child. So those were the words in my ear as I took more photos this morning of water reflections, a favorite subject of mine.

I don’t know what it’s like to raise an autistic child. I don’t know what it’s like to be one. I wonder if it’s like living in an upside-down, reflected world. Where you can’t come out of that world and others have to figure out how to get in. Where in calm weather everything looks just as it should, but is nonetheless completely different in ways that are hard to see and define.Where small breezes cause ripples that make reality look distorted and wobbly. Where storms come and sweep an entire world into an unrecognizable mess and jumble. Where creation is still beautiful and imbued with significance, but down low, where most people aren’t looking. Where the Lord still reigns and rules and declares this, too, is good.

That’s what I’ve been musing about today.

I’ll probably delete this in the morning.