If you are old enough you remember having to fine-tune your
television. It would often scroll up
over and over; get that dreaded slanted line, of sometimes just snow and static. Every TV had buttons to remedy these problems
and if you are old enough you can even remember when someone had to go outside
to turn the antenna and the glory of the day that you got a powered antenna
turner. The reason we went to all this
trouble was because we wanted to watch TV and the picture wasn’t that
clear. Life is like that as well. Our life can get completely out of tune but
the only way to know it is to watch your life, stop and take a look at it. Most people just never look at their life, to
much mess to contemplate and too much trouble to fine-tune it.
Lack of rain is exceedingly meaningful in one regard, it fine-tunes
life. No human can make it rain. We are utterly helpless before it and lack of
it drives home the point like no other.
To be powerless over something so critical to survival is sobering. How can humans be so vulnerable to something
so routine as rain? As we consider rain
in context of no rain we began to realize just how miraculous it is and began
to wonder Whom do we thank for this marvelous gift?
AND
Gratitude is one of the surest markers of a fine-tuned life.
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| Random International's Rain Room at The MOMA. A room of rain that had sensors in the ceiling to sense when a human was present and stop the rain in a six foot circle around the human. |
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