What's the View?

If you had 20 children, could you love them all? I'm not asking if you could buy them all cars or spend endless "quality" time with them -- could you love them all? I think we could. I think love is limitless, and we have an unending supply of it.

We're teaching from Yancey's Prayer book on Wednesday evenings. The premise of the first session is that we need to step back and realize that God sees the world from a God's eye view. Imagine the looking at the ground and seeing tiny little ants crawling around. The God's eye view of us is kind of like that -- tiny, small people in a huge universe.

I get one of the purposes of his analogy. We are not individually the center of the universe. And that's a lesson that I think we often need to remember.

However, we are all God's children, infinitely and perfectly loved by God. To him, to his God-sized heart, we are not specks or ants. We are his children. We are each important to him, and the tiny details of our lives matter to him.

A friend from church sent me a link to a mural in the city of Cochrane in Canada. Go see it at this link. When you do, click on the horse's eye. Yes, I know, it sounds silly, but go do it.

The eye, which to me looks just like an eye in the mural, is actually an individual piece of art, which doesn't look like an eye at all. Carry this analogy out to these conclusions:

• God sees the whole mural of life. We can't see it, but he does.
• To God, each individual piece of it is important. He values the beauty of each little one.
• The individual images are done by different artists -- each with his own style and artistic talent. We are all different.
• Together, we are a church, assembled by God.
• The name of the mural is Trust. That says a lot, doesn't it?

While we may be small in the universe, and the world certainly doesn't revolve around us, we are important and valued by God.