You are the God of great wonders! ~Psalm 77:14
This is the rough draft of an illustration I've been working on for quite a while. The idea is my son with an ice cream taking in the 'wonders' at the State Fair. The State Fair runs every year at Labor Day which coincides with our birthdays. We've had some good times at the fair -- pig racing, turkey legs, cotton candy, the fun house and our favorite, the baby animals.
At 17, he doesn't resemble this 'boy' at the fair much anymore. He's bigger than his Dad now. He's traded his 'dorky' glasses for contact lenses. And we didn't 'do' the fair this year. He's hurrying to get his driver's license. He's busy applying to colleges and imaging how great it would be to go to school in Arizona and live on the West Coast.
I suppose when we consider the wonders of God, we tend to think of His big miracles, or the vistas from a mountain top, or an ocean shore or perhaps a powerful storm. I think now of the wonders of life. In the begining are two tiny cells, microscopic and insignificant. But when they come together, there is life. That life is totally dependent for the first 9 months, and still mostly dependent for the next 6 months or so. But after that, growing up is also growing away. This is a wonder also, the forming of a unique personality with skills, interests and desires so different from the givers of those 2 initial cells. Forming attachments outside the family, forming ideas outside family's orthodox, this life becomes someone all its own.
And so I wonder at that 'wonder'. I wonder if I have done enough, said enough, led enough to impart values, character and faith that will last. I wonder how many mistakes he'll make, and if he'll be able to recover from them. I wonder what my role will be once this boy is fully a man. And I wonder at how amazing it is that, by faith, we can entrust him and his future to a loving God who will hold him in the palm of His hand.
Happy 17th birthday, son!






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