A couple married of many, many years went to the park where they’ve shared countless memories when they were younger. They found a spot to sit down and have a picnic. They sat down and smiled to one another. The joy in their smiles was as bright as the sun shining up above. Locking eyes, the wife admired her husband’s eyes that are as blue as the clear sky up above, just as the first time she noticed them. The husband likewise admired his wife’s eyes, which where a beautiful green, like the field and leaves all around.

The two of them were well into their years, and their faces surely showed this. They looked as though two slabs of stone, sculpted by many fierce storms. At this point in their lives that does not refer to looking like greek statues. At one point some may argue that could have been true, when the husband was young and strong as an ox, and the wife beautiful like a carefully carved marble statue. But through many years as though they were riverbeds, being weathered away more and more by countless storms, their physical beauty is not what it was.

Their beauty is now found in the little things that even age can hardly change, or if it does, can’t remove what makes it beautiful. They still have their eyes, which are lamps for the body, and their eyes have seen the light which lights the whole body (Matthew 6:22-23). The light is not darkness disguised as light. It radiates forth from their old, weary, weathered faces.

Over their many years, there were many storms they had to get through. Some hurricane seasons that nearly knocked them down. Many earthquakes that shattered their hearts. But their strength was not from themselves individually, not even from one another. What’s kept them afloat and teaming with light that is seen in their eyes is from the Son who it is through, we have the Sun. And someday sooner than when they first sat down at the park they are at today, they will be with the Son who spared them from what could’ve been an eternity in a place as hot as the Sun. Instead they will be at a place that shines with the beautiful, glorious radiance of a clear day’s Sun.