I go to the beach frequently at Myrtle Beach State Park. I love the water and I love the beach. The sand at the state park is wonderful, with part of the beach soft and loose for a blanket and closer to the water hard packed for easy walking. I once was part of study that examined the shape of a beach through a year of seasonal changes. It is amazing how much material mother nature can move around from one season to another or one storm to another. I can see changes at the beach on an almost daily basis, while at the same time the tides still change in a very predictable manner and the waves still stroke the shore. It is one of those places in nature where change meets order, fluctuation meets stability.
I also watch the changes in life sometimes slow and easy and at other times swift and challenging. God is always present and appears to be different in the changing terrain of life. At the same time God does not change. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The march of history moves within the order and purpose of God toward the fulfillment of God's plan. Giving us free will makes the path look more like a maze than an ordered journey fitting neatly into the order and nature of God, but that is why we see so much change in the midst of God's changelessness.
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