Perspectives: Expectations

 Chester, West Virginia has the world's largest teapot.  And here it is.  The other day I told someone that I had seen it, and didn't need to see it again - that it was disappointing.  

And then I thought - how is it disappointing? It is exactly what it says it is. Just what are my expectations regarding the world's largest teapot?

A place to park to take a picture would have been helpful, but that's really the only way it let me down.

Perspectives: Lighthouse

See what I did a couple of weekends ago? I climbed a lighthouse. It was great - 10 stories up, and I could see all around the mountains and lakes of West Virginia.

What? Where? Yes, a lighthouse in West Virginia. It's the only one. Imagine that. Who would expect that? It was constructed from the bottom of a wind mill (wind turbine - I don't know - whatever those large wind-powered towers are on the mountains around here). The "poll" was purchased as scrap metal and the owners of the campground created a lighthouse out of it. It has an actual light - from a nearby airport, circa the 20's or 30's - that airplanes can use as a marker. Summersville Lake is nearby, but no boat is in danger of going a ground, here, so boats don't need it. Ha!

It's certainly not something you would expect to see in West Virginia. And I love that.

Read this quote from Searching For Sunday by Rachel Held Evans: "It seems those most likely to miss God's work in the world are those most convinced they know exactly what to look for, the ones who expect God to play by the rules."

Do we miss God's lighthouses because we would never expect God to build one there? May God open our eyes to see his unexpected work among us.