Getting to Here

Occasionally, I look back at my life and find it hard to believe that I'm sitting where I am at this moment. Not that the steps are hard to comprehend if I take the time to break it down, but when I try to look at the whole, I am overwhelmed by the idea of it all. The existence of a person is such a miraculous thing. To think that my complicated little story is just one of billions that have and will exist in time and that God has been an intimate component to every story blows my mind.

15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

~Colosians 1: 15 - 20

Dang. Holding it all together. All together. I get overwhelmed by a couple good ideas, imagine the glory of seeing all creation as a whole outside the realm of time and space. People, the Church, reconciliation, sacrifice.

Dang.