Article November 28, 2016 Issue

Reflections on divine reflection

Kim Shippey

“Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalms 46:10). Those words from the Bible came instantly to thought at six o’clock one morning this past summer as I walked out onto the deck of a house overlooking an inlet of the Mystic River in Connecticut.

The water was silent and still. So were the birds. But the reflections sang a song as beautiful as any I’d ever heard—or seen!

The deep green foliage of the trees lay in front of me—on the river banks and also in the water. Not one burst of variegated color, but two! Everything doubled. Maples, birches, pines, oaks, all pressing forward to catch my attention without causing so much as a ripple across the sky-filled surface.

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