Master Engineer

so it's 6 in the morning and i'm still awake. there are about 7 kids asleep and i just got roped into playing truth or dare. how ridiculous. i am waiting for him to ask a question. he is slow. but otherwise this whole lock-in hasnt gone too bad. only one kid got hurt and they have been on pretty good behavior. although i am hearing yelling. oh well, i hear an adult. and now a vacuum. but on with the point of my blog...

so for elaine's christmas, i took her to get a massage, go out to eat at old spaghetti factory, and to the Bodies Exhibition in Indianapolis. But the Bodies exhibit is really what i want to talk about. It was pretty cool. it's a show about the human body. there were cadavers and body parts and all kinds of things i thought i would be creeped out by. most of the body parts were in glass cases with each part marked. but then the full bodies were just out in the open. you could have touched them (but you werent suppose to!). It was really amazing. organs, bodies parts, legs, arms, muscles, veins. it was crazy. but then we got to an area that had a sign telling you that you didnt have to go, because some people thought it was gross, bad, or just odd.

i didnt know if i wanted to go or not, but elaine looked at me with puppy dog eyes so we went. (shut up guys) but it was the gallery of fetal development. what does that mean? it showed how babies were formed. it was the kind of thing mrs vandeventer would passed out at the sight of. they had an example of about every two weeks. i thought i would have hated it, but it was probably one of the most amazing things there. that little speck, small enough to fit on my fingernail, shaped sorta like a moon. slowly getting bigger, then you see a head, then arms, then fingers. to imagine that i was once one of those things. i was once a speck that could fit on my fingernail. and all i could think of is how god is amazing. to build such a thing that looks like a blob to form a life. to make all the muscles of the body do precise actions to do just what they need to do. to take every human being and build them from a blob to be an individual human being.

God really ia s the master engineer. the master builder. the ultimate artist. he is better than the builders of the tallest structures, the painters of the mot beautiful masterpieces, smarter than the smartest scholars. How is he greater than all of these? Because he created each of them. HE created the builders of the biggest structures, HE creates the the best artists, HE created the smartest. He is the best of the best. And I left that place in awe. Isnt God amazing?



ps: i had to take a break in writing this blog to go watch the VOLUNTARY swirlies in the bathroom!