Pin Prick

After a two week trip we are home. When we got out of the car last night and took a walk around the house I could not believe how the weeds have taken over. I felt like my yard was growling at me. It seems funny but if you look at it you'd want to run from it too.


There has been a moment on our trip that I have been wanting to write about for a while now. Here goes! When Tim and I were at the Grand Canyon (it was my favorite place) I had this idea that we should stay in the park till after dark and find a good spot to look at the stars. I could only imagine what the stars would look like over the canyon. So we asked a worker in one of the shops the best place to go. He told us to drive up to a certain point, far away from any of the visitor areas but be sure that we bring a flashlight or two or we would not be able to find our way back to the car. So off we went, driving around the winding road, and me of course was keeping my eyes peeled for any wildlife. None, oh well. We finally found "the place." We had a blanket and a couple of pillows and after we had watched the sun set (beautiful) we got ourselves all situated.


As the sun disapeared, stars began to pop out. The moon was partly out this night so it wasn't as dark as we thought it would be. The stars became more and more thick and then I would see many planes lights. One after another the planes would fly in different directions. - Then is struck me - I told Tim - Think about all the people in those planes, traveling from different places to different places. The number of people in this world - then look at the expanse of the universe, the stars and planets...then I think about me. Little me in the great big world. I am just a little pin prick in the world. That little - and the creator of the universe thinks that I am worth sending his son to die on a cross to rescue me from my sin. The creator of the universe LOVES ME! It just blows me away. Think about the size of a pin prick. So small and even unnoticeable yet Jesus notices you/me. And when we stray away from him he looks for us and beckons us to come back.


We may be a little pin prick in this world but Jesus knows exactly where we are.

Psalm 8:3-9

3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,

4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?

5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings [a]
and crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:

7 all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field,

8 the birds of the air,
and the fish of the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!