Smallness
I read this post today (http://www.thisisreverb.com/2011/05/feeling-so-small.html). (I'm posting today with BlogPress, and I'm not sure how to do hyperlinks -- sorry. Just copy and paste into your browser. Go ahead -- it's worth the trouble.)
The author is talking about what makes him feel small. Experiences such as listening to a friend who is a missionary telling him about baptizing someone. Talking to friends who are going to Spain to "love Muslims as Christ calls us to." The images in the post are beautiful.
What in life makes you feel small? What experiences remind you that we are created by an enormous God who loves us, even though we are tiny in this endless universe?
Do you feel small as you watch a sunrise? As you listen to laughter? Will I feel small in the presence of God tomorrow when my son graduates from high school? What about when my husband and about 20 other intrepid individuals ride bicycles from Charleston to Buckhannon (150 miles) to raise money for relief efforts in Japan?
Sometimes feeling small is a bad thing, but when the creator of the universe shows you his majesty and glory, feeling small is victory, because we know we are loved by a God too complicated and immense to describe.
Here's to feeling small.
Labels: Faith
posted by Kim at 8:24 PM
1 Comments:
James Kugel (of "The Bible As It Was") has written a very interesting book about his experience of cancer, and expectation that he would die imminently -- entitled "In the Valley of the Shadow" -- he pretty much identifies the core of that experience as the feeling of smallness -- and develops the idea SO interestingly. I recommend it very much.
He survived, BTW, bless his heart.d
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