Worlds Apart

I found this picture on the Photo of the Day blog, as part of a series of underwater landscapes. This one in particular struck me because it splits the frame almost in half between the aquatic realm and a glimpse of the terrestrial one above. Is this not how we live our lives? We see the eternal realm as if through a filmy, light-distorting surface. At rare moments, we stick our heads through, but we quickly find our anatomy was not made to exist in undiluted air, and we are forced back into a fluid normality, where we sit and look and long for the time when we will be given lungs instead of gills. If The Little Mermaid were less about an angsty teenage girl rebelling against her father, it would be a perfect parable for the life of a follower of Jesus.