I took a flight out to the great state of Illinois this past week to perform at Blackburn College in Carlinville. I always prefer driving to shows over flying due to the hassle involved in flying these days so needless to say I wasn’t thrilled about my travel arrangements. However I had beautiful weather for flying and I love getting the opportunity to check out the landscape below on a clear day. So shortly after my takeoff in Syracuse NY I scrambled my vision to recognize anything I could. The obvious were the lakes in New York…and I’ll tell you if you ever get the opportunity to fly west out of Syracuse on a clear day you get the coolest view of all the finger lakes cascading down the country side. It’s amazing. Here’s a sneak peak from my trip home heading north…
Finger Lakes of New York
But as I was making my way closer to Chicago I found myself searching for something else…people! I could see all their little cars bustling about like they were made by matchbox but for the life of me I couldn’t make out any individual people
from where I was in the sky. It brought me back to all those times as a kid standing in an open field desperately waving my arms about when a plane would fly overhead just to simply say hello and realizing they probably never saw me.
But deeper than that I started to think about our view on life compared to God’s view. We go about our lives here on earth bumping into each other and seeing things head on while God gets this amazing view of all of us simultaneously from above…or within…however you look at it. But as I was searching to find at least one person from my seat on the plane I thought about how cool it is to know that God knows us all inside and out no matter how insignificant we seem from the seat of an airplane.
Psalm 139. Check it out!
“You are familiar with all my ways…You created my inmost being…I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made!”
- I threw in the exclamation at the end.
Jc
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