After decrying the proposed erection of this one wind
turbine a mile from here, I walked down the drive this morning, lifted my eyes
to the hills across the valley and for the first time noticed a column of the
things marching up the hill on the horizon!
I knew they were constructing a full blown (excuse the pun)
wind farm over there, but I guess I hadn’t appreciated that these turbines
would now be silhouetted forever against the skyline in that direction.
Well, I can’t hear them and we’re certainly out of the
flicker zone for them, and I don’t think there are many houses over there. But
it just shows how the landscape of our lives can change incrementally and we
almost don’t notice it until it’s a fait accompli.
The parallel is obvious. The inner landscape of our lives
can also change slowly, transforming our personalities and our values bit by
bit. It’s only when we look back later, we realize we have changed almost
beyond recognition.
This can be good. The Bible challenges us to transform our
thinking because we have the mind of Christ, to transform our behaviour by the
power of the Holy Spirit, to transform our goals from amassing treasure in this
life to putting aside a bit of ‘treasure’ in the next.
At a school reunion years ago, a former boyfriend with whom
I’d gone out for a few years during high school, didn’t even recognize me. It
was my appearance he didn’t recognize (he looked the same except a bit fatter
and bald...) but I wonder, if we’d spent more time talking, if he’d have had
trouble recognizing my personality and my goals.
Today I plan to continue to work on transforming my inner
landscape to one that conforms to the values of Jesus. I don’t want any
man-made windmills creating havoc within me!
