Shaky Faith

I just got back from my trip to Chicago with a bunch of Business Students. Not only was it a fun time, it quite possibly was a life changing experience. You should ask me about it sometime.

In any case, we saw all kinds of stuff. One stop we made on Sabbath was the aquarium. If I figure out how to post a video, you might see one that I took.

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Another stop that day was the planetarium. Ironically, we thought that would be the least interesting of our stops that day (out of the aquarium, planetarium, and field museum). It turned out to be a real hit with us. It was educational, fun, and included nap-time.

It made me stop and question things for a second though. We were planning on having a "church service" at the end of Sabbath where we shared how we saw God that day. So that was my mindset. In the planetarium it was easy to see God's work--the wonder, the majesty, the huge, the design. And, it made me stop and doubt. In the explanation of space and the exploration of space, my mind could imagine a day when people leave Earth for the moon or the stars. But I couldn't imagine (realistically) a day when we all leave Earth and go to Heaven.

Don't get me wrong--to some extent I can imagine Heaven and the new Earth. But what about that part where we all fly up to Heaven. It seems incredibly far out to me. And it shook me a little. But maybe I'm not supposed to be able to imagine it. It should be, at least in some sense, unimaginable. I dunno. I'm not sure if I have a question, but I know I don't have an answer. I hope that God takes my shaky faith, says, "This will do for starters," and then grows it.

It helped that on Angela Barber's blog today she shared a great quote about what we are all looking for: "that there is a God right here in the midst of our day-to-day lives...who is trying to get messages through our blindness" (Buechner).

I'm glad that God can take my little faith and still send me reminders that He is love and that He loves me.