Making Ripples

 It isn't difficult to make a ripple, is it? 

A bird, a pebble, a stray hand...

the effects can be eye-catching, arresting, striking

and most of all, 

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disrupting.

 

Without ripples,

the reflections we see on the surface of water

can appear to be very real.

Have you ever read the fable of "The Dog and the Bone"?  

A few ripples, and the dog would have gone his way...

with his bone.

 

Like pebbles, questions thrown on the surface of ideological beliefs - those common-sense notions of what we believe to be true - can be just as disruptive.

And importantly, as the ripples form in our mind,

we might begin to see more clearly.

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But can we also look up in the process?

To see the real thing, as it were? 

What we know may always be imperfect (I Corinthians 13:12) but WHO we know might simply be the Truth (John 14:6).