Feb. 8

"Men look on the starry heavens with reverence: monkeys do not." - C.S. Lewis

Great line. What makes us so different from the rest of creation? I think it starts with the ability to recognize that we are in fact created, that we exist because of something else. We look at the heavens and the mountains and the oceans and we ask, "why, how, when, and who?" There is something in us that cries out for more. We are built to want to know more, to love more, to eat more; we have been created with a default set to discontent. Not to frustrate us, but to motivate us. To guide us toward the answers, to gently nudge us away from worrying about where the next meal comes from, on to pausing to enjoy the taste of an apple. This discontent says that procreation to preserve the species is not enough, we need love and heritage. If we follow the nudge, continue to ask our divinely influenced questions, then I think that we see beyond the starry heavens into the smiling, loving, holy face of God.

Father, let me see you today.