By chance, one day, I watched an old movie. I cannot remember the movie title, but it was about the life story of the early pioneers who settled in the Â鶹ÊÓƵern United Sates. In the movie the clothes and the life styles of the people were much different from those of today's people. The food, shapes of houses and school systems were much different from nowadays. Even the way of people's speaking and walking were noticeably different from what people do today. While I was watching the old movie, I felt that indeed culture, civilization and people's life styles have continuously been developing and adapting to the given environments.
One of the most interesting scenes I found in the movie was the sky. On a sunny day, the people were working in the fields, moving around on the streets and running their own businesses. Although all they doing was much different from what today's people do, the blue sky, the shinning sun, the beautiful white clouds and all that was in the sky were exactly the same as what is in the sky of today. Actually I was quite excited to be able to see this old sky in a movie that was filmed sixty or seventy years ago. The movie was that old. The people in the movie were portraying an old way of life. All things and matters that the people dealt with were also old patterns. But the sky in the movie was not an old sky, it was the same sky that we are able to see today.
Since then it has become my habit to look up at the sky whenever I can, both day and night. If yesterday's sky is the same as today's and today's sky will be the same as tomorrow's, then we are able to have a certain confidence that there is an unchanging, permanent and everlasting thing in the midst of living in a rapidly changing world. If the pioneers had hope for the future through looking up at the sky a long time ago, then there is no reason why we cannot also do the same thing. Truly everything is changing under the sky, but there is something that remains the same always above the all the changes.
One of great advantages living in Saskatchewan, which is called "the land of living skies", is that it is literally impossible to avoid to seeing the sky no matter what, unless we close our eyes intentionally. There is always the sky around us, more than two thirds of space is covered by sky here in Saskatchewan. Whenever you see the sky, please don't fail to perceive the hope for the future, the unchanging and eternal truth; "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).
