The sunrise is not a motion of the Light; it is an aligning of our trajectory with that of the Light – we turn toward it. The misconceptions surrounding geocentrism are echoed by the fallacies of how we think God intervenes in our lives. We paint Him as the golden orb that rises and sets as we predict, running around us in a human-centric orbit. But I propose that our Christian transformation is much closer to the reason behind Copernicus’ controversy than I’d ever realized: Our sunrise (or, rather, Sonrise) occurs when we have been turned by the supernatural forces to face the center of the universe, the Light of Life – not vice versa. He “does not change like shifting shadows”; we turn from the shadows to face Him and leave our winters, responding to the natural gravitational inclination to turn, turn, turn. (James 1:17; Revelation 21:23)

“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It does not change God, it changes me.”

C.S. Lewis