What must the world look like through the eyes of all those little inhabitants in our yards? The journey up the stem of a rose bush must be epic for an aphid. Or how about when the ladybug lifts off from your fingertip once you've finished counting the spots on its back and it makes that voyage to your neighbors garden? And of course you have to consider what a snail must encounter over those vast distances it travels throughout a good days hard work. Just try to put yourself in their... "shoes" for a bit and imagine what it must be like. How grand a brick wall must be to them. But that same brick wall is nothing to us. Heck we made it and we can tear it down if we want to. So what about us? What we see as big problems or obstacles in our lives must be nothing to someone else. To me, that someone is God. As we go throughout our day to day lives, we run into speed bumps and road blocks that totally throw us off track and through a loop, but in the end, how many of those issues really matter? If we just trust in God and rely on God, could he tear down those brick walls so that we might make our way to new parts of our lives? Well its certainly easier said than done. And I wish I had an answer as to how to rely on Him more easily and have faith that we will be taken care of... but I don't. I guess thats one more question we will spend our entire lives trying to answer. I hope that where ever I go in my life, I will be with people who are also searching for answers in God about God. The more of us there are, the closer we are to him and the closer we might get to finding answers.
cody, killer words. I am proud to know you man. Your faith encourages me.
ReplyDeleteJeff I totally agree with you and 10 times more!
ReplyDeleteCode, this is a gorgeous picture and Mr. Chase was right, it is a great pic.
It was good seeing you last night my dear friend and I hope your week gets better from here on out.
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Well done with catching such a vibrant image of immobile obejcts; beautiful art work. Moreover, I commend your writing once again. Clearly you understand and make every effort to emanate humility through your faith. I also loved your analogy and fully support your point. One, because I've experienced it and understand it myself. And two, I'm glad to see another person who does so as well. Great job. I'll see you tomorrow in class.
ReplyDeleteYour friend, Jared.