The One and Only Lord of the Rings

I have a few rings that I have been wearing over the years now, and for the life of me, I could never figure out how when I picked them up and looked at them, they had actually changed from a perfect circular form and taken on a more oval shape, one even warped almost. No, I have never had my hand run over by a car, caught in a garbage disposal or maimed in any way to have caused these rings to take these odd shapes. I concluded that since I wear them so often, that over the years they must have taken these figures from the slow and constant pressure of my finger. So I got on the internet and did a little research and found out that actual heat from my hand in combination with pressure had accounted for the fact that almost of the rings that I owned were no longer the perfectly rounded circles they once were. That’s right, over the years the metal had actually bent. Somehow, this was the weirdest thing to me and I wanted ever so desperately for an analogy to compare this to. I thought of how a tree could actually grow through a fence, how sound could go through a wall and how the bones of children grow. You never see it happening, you just look up one day and there it is. But those instances would not be the ones that would hit home the hardest for me. Finally, one came to mind. The one where like the ring, God transforms our lives. Years and years of molding, by His will, changes us. You just look up one day and here we are. We are older and wiser, bigger and better and transformed to the point where so many things we once did, doesn’t bring us that joy that it used to. This change, like my ring, goes unnoticed from day to day, but yet, certain forces are constantly active around us, to form me (us) into the individuals we are at this very moment. Now I would tend to believe that nothing about my rings had changed, relative to its material composition, as well as nothing has changed about my genetic make up, but something has changed about how we look at things, feel about certain situations, react to people, see the world, speak, value things that matter, etc. But in the midst of this new revelation, there is still constant imperfection. I wanted my rings to be perfectly round again, but they weren’t and will never be naturally. Why? Because a supernatural force had changed them. That same force that has changed us. And when a change occurs in the supernatural, there is not much that we can do to deter it. A force so omnipotent that it is able to take a single cell and produce an entire race of people that have walked this earth for literally since it’s existence (that’s my opinion). But wait, there’s more. That force is still in constant action, working yet again, to transform us….always. The joy in this is that even though, we (like my rings) may not be perfect to the eye, the supernatural force has been assuring us, that it is still evolving us to becoming better individuals and most importantly, to enjoy the ride to see where it is taking us. So in essence, relate yourself to that ring, relate the time and pressure to the supernatural will of the creator and the bending as your transformation. Allowing ourselves to shine, even with our imperfections is Gods way of telling the world, He’s still working on us. So forget what the movie says, our God is truly the one and only, Lord of the Rings.