Purpose, Wonder

It’s odd to me sometimes the ways God speaks to me. A snippet of conversation or something here and a bit there, seems to go together to form an answer to something I have been wondering about.

I got a letter from an old friend I haven’t heard from for a long time. I used to send her my Christmas Newsletter and she would send me her “newsletters” which seemed to come out when ever she took a notion. It seems about 2 years since I had heard from her.

In the letter I just received, my friend wrote that she has become a student of Quantum Physics and that QP is opening her eyes to the greatness of God, as Creator. And it has given her a deeper understanding of herself as His creation, as well as a great appreciation of the reality of things which we cannot see.

I was reminded of something written in the book I have been working on reading for the last two months, Les Miserables. Thanks to the computer I was able to find the quote I was thinking of almost instantly. That was a wonder in itself! Computers are good that way.

"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander
view? Choose. ..."

Then I picked up a book by Ravi Zacharias, called “Recapture the Wonder”. Actually, I was looking for some books to weed out of my collection and it caught my eye. I have started it before but never gotten very far into reading it. This time I picked it up and started reading it a little, just to see what I might be missing if I got rid of it. And it seemed to be appropriate to my current state of mind.

I would like to just copy the whole first chapter I just read, but it’s copyrighted so I can’t. Is a bad paraphrase better? Well, anyway that’s what follows here.

He talks of looking at a homeless man digging for food in a trash can. We probably would conclude that here is a man who has not lived up to his potential. This indicates that we have within us a sense of fulfilling some measure of achievement, some sense of potential. We wonder what a child will grow up to be – you could say there is a dream of potential. He says that it is not good reasoning to conclude that disappointment of the dream means that God has created that man's life or all or any of life to be purposeless. And he shifts to talking of people having a deeper hunger within themselves. They may achieve what looks like success and still suffer this hunger. I will quote briefly here: “What is that we want the dream to deliver? I would like to call it wonder… enchantment with reality.”

All this goes together. It is good to be reminded that the same God who created the universe in such amazing splendor, that same God created me.