Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
If you've never seen the movies this journal steals its title from you should. It is and eighties classic with Steve Martin and John Candy. I digress. I didn't name it that because of the movie. I named it that because I went to the train station yesterday. Caleb loves to hang out there, and I was missing him so I decided to go. I was thinking about all the reasons he could possibly like trains...and when I say like I mean LIKE. The boy is infatuated to no end with trains. Most kids get pretty impatient, but I promise you he will outlast you waiting for a train to come. Anyway, I was thinking about how he looks at trains. If you watch his eyes while one is going by you see nothing but wonder. He is mesmerized by everything about it...every sound, every sight, every sensation. One thing that gets me about it is that he is also very afraid of them. He has been on them and around them most of his four years, and yet when one comes close he clutches me tighter and tighter. If noone is holding him he hides....espceially at night. He is in love with the wonder of it all, but he knows that the train could wipe him out. That's sort of the way I look at the ocean. The thing about it is not enough of us (me included) looks at God that way. Here my four year old son is with a better grasp of how to approach God than I am, and he's doing it to a train! God is more beautiful than anything EVER and how many times am I mezmerized sp? by His beauty? during worship? during fellowship? in my quiet time? or every second of every day? I am sure it doesn't take much to realize it should be the latter. And what about my fear of Him. Do I approach Him in reverential awe? Do I get on my face before Him and show Him that I know how much greater than me He is? See the train didn't make Caleb. The ocean didn't make me. (contrary to what evolutionists might think) I long to look at God the way I should. I hope everyone feels the same. What do you look at in awe? What inspires both your deepest wonder and deepest reverance?