Amazing!

Three things amaze me, no, four things I'll never understand— how an eagle flies so high in the sky, how a snake glides over a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, why adolescents act the way they do. (Proverbs 30:18, 19 MSG)

"Amazing!"  One of those words like "love" and "awesome" that is thrown around so often as to take the amazing out of "Amazing!"  The world has gotten so small with the internet and ease of travel.  We rarely feel truly amazed anymore... we have seen it and heard it all.  When was the last time you were truly amazed at something?

A good way to be amazed regularly is to have young children in your life.  Most everything they see is new and they are amazed by it.  I love seeing the world through my grandchildren's eyes!  Just Saturday, as I watched a Disney movie on TV with them, I was amazed at high definition T.V. as I watched Cece and Emma get almost swept right into the movie screen to become part of it rather than the mere spectators of my generation.

Nature is full of "amazing!"  And North Carolina is a wonderful place to find a lot of it... mountains, beaches.  Spring is just around the corner and after spending a great deal of my childhood in South Florida, I always find Spring "Amazing!"  I can't believe it when I see the brown, seemingly lifeless world come alive in vivid, gorgeous color.

Be amazed at something today.  Even if there are no small children in your life, look at something as if you have never seen it before.  You will find that there is little in life that won't amaze you if you look at it with new eyes.  We live in a truly amazing world.

Amazing God,
You have given so much to amaze us, but we have gotten so use to the spectacular that we sometimes forget to be amazed.  Open our eyes today to the awesomeness of life and our surroundings.  Amen.

Joys:  Longer hours of daylight (though I sure would like my hour back!); time with family; so much to be amazed by.