Frames

Today I saw square frames in the distance, as of lenses of specialised spectacles or simply as picture frames. The word 'frame' could indicate these physical frames but also framework for our thinking, our words, our perspectives etc. Just on Wednesday I quoted Psalm 139:15: "My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, ...". This encourages me to think on the fact that not only do we have the frame of our body but also of our life. I like to think that our lives are not just linear, so a fine prescribed line to walk along. It is within a frame in which we have free will and space to make mistakes but still within the confines of God's love and grace. Like coloured balls being shaken up and down to eventually settle, may we settle into God's ways as we increasingly learn to trust Him. "Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's Will us, His good, pleasing and perfect Will" (Romans 12:2).