There are people who will die, never having seen
the mountains, or the great oceans, or the hills and prairies of the
Midwest, or the great skyscrapers of New York City. And there are people
who will never understand how exhilarating it is to breathe in the cold
air of a winter night and gaze up at the bright stars, and there are
people who will never know the feeling of warm California sand between
their toes, or understand the smell of a real Christmas tree and the
warmth of a fire. Some people will never witness the magnificence of a
sunrise or sunset, and some will never experience the quiet calm and
peace of waking up early in the morning in the woods after a night spent
in a tent. But there is a experience that every. single. person. who
has ever lived has experienced: interaction with another person. Whether
it was being alive in the womb, being held in someone's arms, talking
with a stranger on the street, saying "thanks" to the cashier at the
grocery store, making eye contact with the person 10 feet away in the
library, laughing with people over corny jokes at 2 a.m., crying with
someone, learning with a person... the list goes on forever. No one has
ever NOT been around a person, even if that time was just at the
beginning of their life. Everyone has had an experience and interaction
with another human. God created so many magnificent things in the world,
and we should appreciate and enjoy them because they bring glory to
Him. But the thing that everyone in the human race shares is that we
have all had contact with someone who is MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. The
evidence of God's handiwork is right before my own eyes, and every day I
get the opportunity to speak with people who were created by God and
are loved by Him.
