We Are Not So BIG!

Until you walk outside at night and look up from your feet, you will then realize how small we really are!

I needed an awakening and I got one.  I have always liked the message of a preacher named Louie Giglio.  He has some important lessons about the vastness of our universe and about how small we really are. 

It's amazing for a person of my height (6'-2") to walk around and be taller than most people.  You feel a real power when you stand above most people.  You feel invincible and feel that nobody will ever mess with you. Until you meet someone a lot taller than you.  That's how I felt one night when I walked outside and looked at the twinkling stars above me.  I felt small and realized that I don't do this enough, that I don't look at the night sky as much as I should.  It's big, real BIG!

When you get right down to it, we are a small tiny dot on the map of the heavens.  Yet, for some odd reason we feel huge.  When you hear this message by Louie and see the pictures he uses you get a strange feeling inside.  You really see how small we are, I mean really small.  But for some reason we feel we are the most important planet in the universe.  At least we think we are because we have yet to find another planet that is like us or one that has anybody living on it.  It makes you wonder about what God hasn't told us yet.

Why do we feel so significant? I don't know! 

When you think about the things we think are important, like wealth, power, beauty and self entitlement. Doesn't it all seem foolish to think about such things?  I mean when you hear a message like this that truly points out the fact that we are a tiny fragment of dust in the universe, it all seems useless to try and be something special like the things mentioned above. 

God wants us to be more.  To be something less in the eyes of others, but to become great in His eyes.  To serve others not self. To think of the greater prize awaiting us in heaven not here on Earth.  To be or not to be, that is the question?  To be Eternal or to be something "NOT Eternal? 

On the next clear night take a walk outside your door and look down at your feet and slowly look up.  See what God wants you to see.  See that his work just doesn't extend to our existence or the stuff around us.  Look out to infinity and beyond. Look as far as you can see and see God.  Creation here on Earth is a great way for all of us to see God, but to look beyond the sky and remember that that is also his creation , is something to behold. God is so good!

Missing Aunt Monna!

It's been a week since the passing of my Aunt Monna, and  I still can't believe she is gone.  She was a kind and giving person.  Her heart was always geared toward the concerns of others.

Living with a crippled leg caused by the Polio virus since she was little, it never seemed to stop her at all.  As she became older her brathing became somewhat limited and her strength to get around was geting harder also. 

In the end  the Polio that had hurt her earlier in life came back to be one of the main causes of her sudden death last Sunday.  She had what they called a Polio lung and her lungs became like a leather bag instead of a more flexible lung for her to breath easier. 

This picture was taken at her house on Christmas eve of this year where we celebrated my two boys birthdays. Little did I know it would be the last party and the last time I would see her.  We all caught the stomach virus and felt we didn't need to be around her in case she caught it.  I have plenty of good memories of my Aunt and am very sad she has left, but she is now where we all want to be. In the loving hands of our Creator! Rest in peace Aunt Monna. We love you and will truly miss you!