My shadow passed me!

I had the strangest thing happen last night. IN fact it happened many times, over and over and over again. And each time it seemed to startle me, and my mind was racing to remember my science classes as to WHY it was doing this. Do I have your curiosity?

My husband and I were heading home after a nice motorcycle ride. We were on I75 and to my surprise I saw our shadow to my left passing me. Yes there we were, our two torsos on the motorcycle going faster than we were. It passed by once, then again and again. Each time catching my attention and it was the strangest sensation to be passed by my own shadow!

As is true when riding on the back of a motorcycle there is a lot of THINK time, so my mind went back to when our children were small and we would take a flashlight into the children's rooms, lay on their beds with them and we would make shadows on the walls. We would get to laughing as we tried to create animals and various creations with our hands. We felt this helped the children not to be afraid of the dark, plus just good creative family fun.

I remember playing shadow tag, where we tried to step on each others shadow for points, thus it was active as you not only had to keep yourself from others but your long shadow from contact with others.

I remember Peter Pan always made such a big deal of his shadow. I watched that movie over and over mismerized by the shadow, as well as dreaming I could fly to avoid growing old.

Shadows are fun because they are not real, and yet they reflect something that is real. Shadows require an object and sunlight to create a shadow that you can make move the way you move. Although sometimes your shadow is much taller than you are, much wider or more slender than the real object. It is not an accurate representation, but it is a result of something real.

I am so glad that the Bible says we walk through the valley of the SHADOW of death (Ps 23:4). As a Pastor's wife, I have seen several people take their last breath. It is a beautiful experience to be in the same room with a Believer in Jesus who one second is in a bed before me, and another second is in the presence of the Lord. It is such a holy experience. One second there is life in the hand I am holding, and the next second it is obvious, that the body is still and lifeless. Believers just walk through the shadow of death, the sting of death is gone, for we walk right into GLORY!

All of the above, in greater detail, went through my mind as I was riding on the back of our motorcycle. I was praising my Lord that a simple, but startling, Shadow of myself passing me on the road caused me to thank Him for my past, present and my future with Him.