Issue 974 – Brick Walls – February 3, 2023
I love these serpentine brick walls, sometimes called crinkle crankle walls. I have only seen two or three small samples of these curvy garden walls, but they are a common feature in parts of the United Kingdom.
Back in the 1600’s Dutch engineers built walls like this while draining some of the Fens of East Anglia. They called these walls slangenmuur “snake walls,” and I am sure they also have many other names. They caught on from there and were used extensively in Suffolk.
These wavy walls look like they would use more bricks than a conventional wall, but they use less. A complex mathematical formula explains this phenomenon, but I don’t understand it. If calculus is your thing, you can check out the explanation on this blog.
Sinusoidal brick walls typically run east to west to catch and retain heat from the sun. The curves allow spaces for growing fruit trees. They are functional as well as aesthetically pleasing.
Crinkle crankle walls remind me of our faith walks. Sometimes we are near the centre, but other times we feel like we are moving closer to or further away from God.
Our emotions and circumstances can cause us to either think less or higher of ourselves than we ought. Those feelings can make us distrust the Word and feel distant from Him.
Feelings are a gift from God but are typically a poor arbiter of truth.
The truth is that our feelings don’t determine our relationship with God. His nature and His promises govern our relationship with God.
His word would still be true even if the entire world disagreed with it. His truth is true no matter how we feel about it.
We can deny it or ignore it, but God’s Word is true, and God never changes. We can justify our rebellion to ourselves and others, but that justification will never stand before a holy God.
Feelings change, but God does not. His truth is the truth and never varies.
The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. Psalm 119:160
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Psalm 19:8-10
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth. John 17:16-19
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, Colossians 1:3-6
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” Revelation 21:5
Feelings come and go, and circumstances change, but the truth never varies. Trust God in His word no matter what you face.
Be Blessed
Hallelu Yah / Praise God
Kevin
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Soli Deo Gloria (For the glory of God alone)
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