It’s Awesome!

You’re in your little garden on a bright, sunny day, pulling dandelions. Suddenly, perhaps for the first time, you take a good look at that weed, and you see the beauty of the yellow, and you wonder at the complexity of the design, and you delight in the strange beauty of the smell. The dandelion is transfigured, and you drop to your knees in the realization that this is no ugly yellow weed, but a little touch of the wonder and glory of God.

You come to Church for years, hearing the same stories about Jesus, and His teachings, and His miracles and His parables. And gradually your spirits become sleepy and dull. Then it happens! Maybe it comes in the words of a standard hymn. Maybe it comes in the words of the Lord’s Prayer. Maybe it comes in the words of one of Jesus’ parables. But there it is: suddenly, if only for an instant, the words break through the sleepiness and…