"the world is vast, and wide open"
i don't know why i'm thinking of it just now. maybe because my mom and dad are in dubai. we can go so far. far from everything we know, covering immense spaces of not emptiness, but fullness, completely unwitnessed by human beings. the old saying "if a tree falls in the forest..." of course it exists!!! i think that god is watching it, reveling in these experiments called land and sea. there was a time when i thought all of this staggering splendor was just a chance happening, the ripples in the water just occurred that way, and there is no meaning behind it. that world was grim. in my best moments i conceive that there is more to this show than meets the eye, and probably more than i can ever fathom. some people will say "you believe what makes you happy" and maybe that's true. but i prefer living in a bright world, deep and enchanted. [this is the north pacific ocean, off alaska].
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amazing photo!
That thought often crosses my mind, and never more than when I travel. It's such a strange feeling to see someone and think that I will never see that person again, but there we are, this person living a normal but oh-so-different life from mine, and me getting to take a small peek into that life for a few seconds while standing together in the subway, or something...
but maybe I'm rambling like this because I recently traveled. :)
I like how you put it: "These experiments called land and sea." God really was experimenting, wasn't he? Playing, as artists are apt to do. And just think about the 100 million some odd species swimming around the deep chasms of the ocean that we have not even laid eyes on. Do they exist? Of course they do. Do they matter? I like to think that God delights in them--all those little nessies that may never reach the pages of our science books. They are His handiwork. His little masterpieces.
Mark, I too, prefer living in a "bright world, deep and enchanted." When I look around me and REALLY look to see, the evidence of the Artist is overwhelming. His signature is everywhere. When I dig my toes in the Ocean Grove sand and stare out at the rippling sea, at a thousand hues of blue, I can't help but think I am staring at a work of art.
love the picture. love the post. matt is reading pilgrim for the first time, and it's taking me back to when you lent it to me at wheaton. and yes, i'm finding the world to be very vast.
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