INTRODUCTION:

The word ‘kaleidoscope’ calls up images of floating, ever-changing designs, beautiful patterns and shifting brilliant colors. I love the way my view is shaped in the eye-piece of that small tube sitting on the corner of my desk.

My vision shifts with every twist, or change in lighting as I aim it at different sources.

Flowers bloom, starbursts cluster and then explode into new designs. Patterns contract and then inflate with constant surprise. It’s beautiful. It’s magical. It’s my own private, tiny window of imagination – into possibility.

INSPIRATION:

If that seems too much credit for a simple toy-like device that doesn’t accomplish anything except to rearrange, refract and reflect bits and pieces of ‘stuff’ … allow me to explain.

This particular kaleidoscope is made with two tubes. The smaller one is sealed, full of liquid (most likely mineral oil) with fragments of colored glass, beads, tiny hearts, stars, and other random miniature bits floating in it. This one inserts into the larger viewing tube – with it’s embedded mirror.

As I watch it, each tiny bit falls through the oil in changing patterns — depending on its size, the angle at which I’m holding the tube – or the speed at which I twist, turn, lift or drop it. The design possibilities seem endless.

If I imagine my life and times to be like the oil … and my current circumstance, my past experience, and my future concerns, to be like the tiny bits floating within it – then I can observe changing patterns and appreciate different design possibilities.

A shard of glass could be painful if stumbled upon with naked vulnerability. Yet that same shard, placed within the viewing tube of my kaleidoscope, might offer brilliant color and contribute to new designs as it falls. Context and perspective – magical and creative gifts we can apply.

CONCLUSION:

This is more than a pleasant diversion. It’s a reminder that there really is a design to everything – and that the designer, our Lord, can make beauty from ashes and from all the ‘stuff’ I have to offer – the good, and the bad, the rough shapes, slick designs, and the varied sizes of my hopes, dreams, triumphs and disasters.

I’m also reminded that the biggest ‘stuff’ of my life, is still microscopic, from God’s point of view. He’s bigger than anything that concerns me.

I have an impact on the patterns in my viewer (and in my life) depending on how I hold, turn, and present my circumstances. But with Divine Design, as I trust God’s workmanship, all is (or will be) beauty. I may just need to change my point of view.

“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the ‘called’ according to His purpose.”    Romans 8:28 (NKJV)

May you be encouraged and reminded too.

Blessings, Love and Laughter to you,

Margaret

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