Thursday, November 20, 2008

In Awe

This is my first November post.
It´s likely that it will be my only.
Time just goes by sometimes, I´m sorry.

Today I want to talk about something I´ve been thinking about lately.
I went to this wonderful small city of Baños last weekend and during the 4 hour bus ride, I was looking out the window. We passed all sorts of beautiful mountains, scenery, etc., but it was the people that I was watching.
I looked out of my big charter bus and saw an indigenous women sitting on the curb, eating something from a small plastic bag.
I saw a mother with her baby strapped to her back. The baby just bouncing along as the mother walked holding the hand of her other toddler.
And then there were people just standing by the side of the street waiting or watching for I´m not sure what.
And I realized...
God knows EVERY thing about EVERY person. As I questioned myself about why I had been given the chance to have a very great education and ¨know¨the world and experience different cultures and therefor learn more about my own, I realized that even though I may feel so blessed to ¨know¨more than these people that have lived their entire lives in one small community selling the same bottled drinks to bus passengers, God knows them, knows me, more than I can fathom.
I guess I just realized how big the world is, yet how small. 6+ billion people, and he will listen and fully know all of their past, present, and future!! And I thought of how it´s hard to keep ties with you all in the states and trying to maintain lasting relationships there, while meeting and getting to know people here and I just thought...wow.
I feel undeserved to have a God that loves me and wants to know me and wants me to know in his timing all the great things he´s got in mind. And then he desires that for every person on this planet we call earth. That´s incredible, isn´t it?

So maybe just take a minute to think about that today.
When I struggle with knowing how to solve a problem that´s risen, or feel that this decision I have to make is SO hard, I have a God that is so much more powerful than any notion KIMBERLY could ever feel. I should just give it to him.
so I guess I´ll keep trying.

Amazed and humbled,
kimbo

1 comment:

theoy said...

I'm in awe of what a deep thinker you are. Of course you know what that means. "To whom much has been given, much will be required". You are on the right track and I'm proud to be your Grandma Theo