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The past few weeks have been a little crazy.  Connie and I moved to North Carolina where we can be near our daughter’s family.  Grandchildren can be a compelling reason to move.   However, establishing and re-establishing routines are challenging.  One routine that followed me to our new home was monthly visits to clients in Washington, DC.  Tomorrow I will make that trip for the second time since relocating.  However, I wanted to share a little of my experience from the first trip from our new home.

My trip began like most of the other visits.  I was booked for an early morning flight to Dulles International Airport.  I have been taking these monthly trips for the past couple of years.  However, this was the first time to fly from the small airport near our new home.  I was pleasantly surprised by the short 10-minute drive from house to terminal, the ease of the check-in process, and even the security folks were pleasant. 

We soon boarded the small commuter jet, taxied to the runway and launch off into the early dawn sky.   I opened my book to read, but realized that we were flying over our new home.  I saw the local school, the neighborhood, and our house nestled among the surrounding homes.  There were trees covering the rolling hills and the blue ribbon of a river meandering through the countryside.  It was nice.

Suddenly, we rose above the clouds and it was magnificent!  A soft, cottony blanket would open up to expose large cavernous spaces inside some of the clouds.  The caverns glowed orange as the sunlight passed through the outer layers and filled the inner spaces.  I thought of Jesus saying “I am the light and in me there is no darkness.”

I began to notice how the clouds appeared to be stitched together, interwoven somehow.  Just think of all of the various laws of nature that combined to make this scene possible - humidity and atmospheric gases, temperature, and elevation.  Then there is aerodynamics of speed and lift at play, just to raise us to the place where we can see it.  There were amazing biological aspects that allowed me to see and interpret the wonders that were on display that morning.  The technology was astounding – from the advance jet aircraft that carried us into the sky to the glasses that corrected my faltering eyesight.

Somewhere in the middle of all of this, I thought “where is God in all of this?”  Did He create the rules and turn creation loose to run on its own steam?  Is He engaged and making new creations as we go along? How does it all fit together?  The answers are in a combined “yes!”  He did create and He continues to create.  These creations fit together perfectly.  Each natural law was impacting, influencing, shaping the others.  Physical Science, mechanical engineering, thermodynamics, biology, and spirit all involved together in intimate interplay.  This was the marvelous display that mesmerized me as we flew 30,000 feet above the ground.  The panorama that was before me was a great illustration of relationship.  It speaks to the relationship that our Creator wants to have with us, His creation.  Therefore, once again God had left His fingerprints for us to see.

In Him,

Dan

www.noblepurposeministries.org

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