In class today we
looked at a picture of a beautiful mountainous scene with a human standing in
the midst of this wonderful display of creation. It was interesting to look at
this picture and see how this human looked incredibly small in comparison to
the enormous mountains, trees and valleys that surrounded him. I thought that
this paralleled with what we all are here on earth. We are incredibly small
beings with less control over our world and bodies than we like to think. We
live among a creation that has been designed so perfectly for us. There are
many tasks and things we can do here on earth but if we look at the book of Ecclesiastes
we will find that all our work and toil is meaningless in this world unless we
understand that the toiling of our work is for eternal purposes and that we are
here temporarily only for a greater purpose in mind that has already been set.
Even though among this mountainous scene, the human is so small, he gets to
enjoy the incredibly view and landscape he is experiencing. There are often
times in life like this scene that remind us how small we are. It is often
through an illness such as cancer that we realize the brevity of life and how
small we are in comparison to all of creation.
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