RE: Today's Principle.....presented by Bleujay....

I came for the painting, stayed for the photographs, and learned from the principle ... C.S. Lewis described this in The Screwtape Letters as the Principle of Oscillation, and so I learned it in a slightly different way combined with his writing of it in his fictional Space Trilogy (being far younger than expected to be reading any of that): peaks and valleys are waves, and therefore not permanent ... if you are in one, get ready for the next, because no state is permanent. Newton came along later with opposite and equal reactions ... so that naturally, there are highs and lows that will always succeed each other. C.S. Lewis also added the warning in fiction that gets to your way of looking at this: do not despise the natural, common grace enjoyments seeking just the highs.

"Too much good time" explains a lot of things ... too high a high means a long dropoff and a harder landing. There are, however, some subtleties to this ... as someone who has experienced intense grief, it is sometimes necessary to think of this the other way: to get through the valleys, one has to know there will be a balance, that at some great joy will be known again. And, even further: there are some who will seek to avoid peaks in order to avoid valleys, and this too can become unnatural.

Of course, C.S. Lewis, you, and I have something in common: we trust the Master of the sea, Who will let no storm rage too long, and binds night by day, and day by night, and Who is with us through whichever or peak or valley He chooses for us. We can be content and be grateful in His choice along the journey. This is one of the reasons I have become a decent photographer of nature ... reminding myself daily of the beautiful common grace blessings all along the way.