I love Traveling…
I love going on trips. I love leaving my house and getting on a plane to go somewhere different. It does not even have to be a far away exotic trip. It could just be a couple hours away, but I love going on away. Its just something about airports…
I just went back to my hometown in Ohio for Thanksgiving. I have not been able to go on many trips recently with work, but as I sat in the airport ready to board my all day plane/airport adventure my love for trips began to rekindle. I was in the frigid state of Wisconsin for a layover. I looked through my bag to find something to read, in which I found a GQ magazine and a book on Spiritual Disciplines, but as I flipped through the pages of an article on Obama, yeah I picked GQ, I realized all that I really wanted to do was people watch. I love trying to imagine where each person is going, or what their job is, or even figure out what they are doing to pass the time. I love people watching. Have you ever done that?
But with all of these ridiculous ideas that are passing through my mind, I always feel like I am going to run into someone I know. I have lived in many places, and for some ridiculous reason I always look around to find a long lost friend that I have lost connection with. It does not matter what airport or state I am in, I always feel as if I am going to have this great discovery. But as I pass from terminal to terminal I soon find that there are just unfamiliar faces in the sea of travelers going from place to place. No one that I know or have seen before in my lifetime. This brings so much of my realization of how big God is. The God that I have this daily relationship with. Who I believe cares for me so much, and who sent His son to die for me. Who knows what I am going through everyday, feels the same way about all of these random people traveling from place to place. It is something that I can not understand. I do not think I ever will. God is so big and so is His love and concern for people. People that I know nothing about. People that have their own lives and concerns that do not involve me. But yet somehow God’s love for every single one of us is overflowing. God loves people…
How do I respond to God whose love is this big?
How does this make me feel towards the rest of humanity?
How do I see people when I truly understand this principle?
totally dito! I lo-uh-ove to travel too. I love to fly. I always look around with the probable thought of running into someone too!
cool thoughts.
you were in Ohio and didn’t see me????
sniff…