God is Personal - And That Makes All The Difference

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I posted today on our church blog. We are walking through our Core Beliefs over the next couple of weeks and today we started with our belief that God is involved in and cares about our daily lives.

Have a great week!

The Awe Factor of God

Today, I started a new book called "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan. In the first chapter, he directed me to the book's website,http://www.crazylovebook.com/, so I could watch a video called "The Awe Factor of God." Go take a look and then come back here, if you want. If you don't, I'm going to spill the beans now.

The video includes transition photos of our earth from on the surface to 100 million light years away. In each transition, I was reminded of how large God is and how small my little place in the world really is. Now that's cool. I'm wondering who got their iPhone 100 million light years away to take the picture! God is a huge God and He sits over way more than we can see or even imagine. Francis's words on the site are "When I first saw those images, I had to worship. I didn't want to speak to or share it with anyone. I just wanted to sit quietly and admire the creator." So, I thought that was what I should do. At my desk, in my freshly painted "man's office." I reached into the silence to worship the Creator. In about 5 seconds, no lie, a sound penetrated my silent worship. A sound that I believe came from the Creator. A sound that was so close to my heart that I couldn't help but hear it and hear it clearly.

"MMMMaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!"

My son, Graysen, was yelling out to find his mother. That sound brought a smile to my face. As I sat and tried to ponder the "awe of God" in the bigness of God, He reminded me that He is right here in the little things, and in the end it's His bigness that makes the little things in my life huge. That cry from Graysen signaled to my heart a challenge to see His image, not in the stars or the suns or the galaxies, but in a 2 year old boy. The image of our Creator does not rest in the created earth, but in humanity. I am more in awe of listening to Rhonda read a story to Graysen than I am in the mountains of Colorado. "Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness...So God created human beings in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:26, 27 (TNIV).

Wow...created in God's image!!!! That's people, not places. That's people, not things. That's people. That's people!

Fridays Rock!

Every Friday, Rhonda goes to meet with some of the ladies from the Springs.  They say it's a bible study, but I have my suspicions about that...  Anyway, on Fridays, I get to hang out with my 21 month old son, Graysen.  We don't do much craziness, but it's just us.  No girls, no Barbies, no Polly Pockets.  This morning it was the red wagon, the swing and the basketball, mixed in with water puddles and mud.  When I come into my "office" to check mail and write something like this, he follows me in, pulls up his chair to his computer and sits and taps on the keys while watching the default screensaver on the Mac Mini that signifies the monitor is not plugged in.  We work.  Today, we are heading out to get lunch for Garin.  We'll take it with us to the school and hang out with her and her class.  It's going to be fun.  Mom might join us after her "study" but if she doesn't, we'll be okay.  

Does our Father God ever get pumped about His time with us?  I think He does.  I think it thrills Him to watch us "play in the puddles and scoop up the mud" sometimes.  I believe God is a personal God and that He is involved in and cares about my daily life.  Just like I do with Graysen!