[Discoveries] 06-11-08 The anatomy of awe -- Ecclesiastes 5:7

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/*Therefore stand in awe of God. -- Ecclesiastes 5:7*/

I sit at my desk wondering how to convey this. Do I tell you about a 
June morning in 1977 when I stood shivering at the top of a cliff and 
looked down at people picking apples a mile below me in ninety-degree 
heat while off in the distance a blizzard was raging in the high 
Cascades? Do I try to describe what it was like to lie back in my 
brother-in-law's hot tub on a cold December night and look straight up 
with nothing between me and stars so far away there is no way the human 
mind can comprehend the distance?

One day I stopped on a nature trail, transfixed by what I cannot 
describe. A couple walked by -- I believe these were people who like to 
categorize and name plants and animals. They asked me what I was looking 
at.

"The glory of God," I said.

Okay, it was a lunatic response. I admit it. But I can't reduce 
everything to something I can name or explain. I can't reduce 
everything, but some things reduce me.

Remember the Challenger disaster? Remember after the space shuttle 
exploded a voice continued to report the progress of the craft as though 
nothing had happened? Remember how incongruent that voice seemed in the 
weight of that terrible moment?

As I look at my life, I have to smile. It's been a wild ride, but I 
wouldn't trade it.

A wild ride. That's what's it's like to hang out with God. Everything He 
does is so beyond us. With Him, we walk right up to the face of death. 
There He takes off death's mask, and we discover life beyond measure.

No, there aren't any words to convey this. But maybe that's the way it's 
supposed to be.

Be encouraged!
Dwight

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