This is a photo I took recently on the London underground, using my iPhone.
I like this image for two reasons:
1. It doesn’t show the viewer where they are headed. All you can make out is the end of the moving stairway and the start of a tunnel. It creates a sense of the unknown.
2. It also creates a sense of movement. It tells the viewer that they are moving down the stairway, being taken somewhere intentionally. Somewhere ahead where, by the time that stairway gets them to floor level, they’ll be able to see the hallway in front of them, and signposts on the walls telling them which train goes from which platform. And things will make sense.
When I look at this photo, I remember that even when life feels ‘blind’, if we are walking with Jesus, his arms carry us, like that moving stairway.
He’s taking us somewhere, and we can know that for sure – even when we’re afraid because we can’t see what’s ahead.
Not in a weird, hyper-predestined, puppet-on-a-string kind of way.
Just, in a Father-who-loves-you-and-is-leading-your-life kind of way.
So whenever I panic that I can’t see around the next bend, he reminds me to rest and just ride the moving stairway.
And that he knows where we’re going.
And that he’s got me.
You ever feel that way?
-Vicky
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