Cumberland Falls, Kentucky - Hearing the Voice in Torrents

The people walking in darkness

    have seen a great light;

on those living in the land of deep darkness

    a light has dawned.

Jeremiah 9:2

There are times in life and living it when the voice of the Father of Lights lands on your heart like a dove in early spring.  Getting through another winter had you grinding it out in the rocky land of Endurance.  Nothing new could ever visit that place, so you set your face like flint and keep moving.

But suddenly you come across something beautiful that you never knew existed before.  And it wakes you out of the stone silent existence into a new day.

If you've never been to Cumberland Falls, it would do your heart good to go.  It's called 'the Niagara Falls if the South'.  While I've never been there, my impression is that Niagara is much, MUCH grander in scale.  Nevertheless, Cumberland Falls is something that dearly stills the tongue.  Its beauty is clear for all to see.

But there's something else about this place.  Something unique and couldn't get lingered in my mind like a seed buried just beneath the surface of my soul... Until this verse in Jeremiah warmed it and coaxed it to life.

The idea that this rainbow reveals itself in darkness is an amazing thought.  It reminds us that when the light shines in darkness it is a hearkening to the fact that it is light that overcomes - not darkness.

Such is the voice of the Lord, that speaks beyond sound or word.

- revel8r 12/18