Have you heard the story of the two children, one is an optimist the other a pessimist, each given a “room to play in”? The story unfolds and then ends with, “I know there’s a pony under here somewhere.” If you don’t know it, stop me sometime and I’ll give you the 25-cents version. How about, “the glass is half full (or maybe half empty)? Then there is “every cloud has a silver lining”. Have we grown so old and so cynical that we have let our world take us to a place where we are no longer able to discover good, to discover God?
During our beach vacation this summer Josh asked for pair of goggles. Goggles??? You mean the boogie board, the raft, the skim board, the shovel, pail, toys, etc that we brought aren’t enough to play with? Well, ok, it’s vacation - goggles it is. I had no idea the wide open (under) world I was about to unleash. Josh spent everyday about chest deep in the ocean bobbing under the water and staying for as long as his breath would let him. When asked about his adventure, he spouted back some of the things he had seen; shells, the underside of a wave, legs and the bottom of the ocean. The goggles cost $5.00; what Josh discovered was priceless.
As we go through our lives, let us see the world through God-gles -- given to us by our heavenly father so that we may discover all that is good in His world. (JRM is 11 today -- Happy Birthday, Bean, I love you)
Steve Matthews
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