Some of the hot springs at Yellowstone remind me of an opal - iridescent, continually shifting in hue, beautiful. So often we bemoan the fact that life constantly changes. The situations, qualities, experiences and people we try to hold onto inevitably shift, leaving us to deal with sorrow at their loss. I wonder - is it possible to view life's changes as a beautiful opal? Can we have the faith to trust that when we lose one color, another - just as beautiful - will replace it? When we lose a person's presence in one form, is it possible that they will still remain with us in another form? Perhaps instead of holding on to the colors we love, we can identify ourselves with the vast expanse of divine love - symbolized by the wide surface of the opaline hot spring. While the colors change on any given day, the overall expanse of the spring does not.
Photo: Hot Spring in Porcelain Basin, Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY; September 1, 2013
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