My grandmother was a dormitory house mother for years at Shenandoah College in Winchester, Virginia. She could tell some stories!!! One of my favorite stories I heard her tell more than once recalled a little child who recited that familiar verse—-Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are. But years later that child went off to college, learned a lot, and came home and said, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, now I know just what you are.” But fast forward, that same person now an elderly man, found himself now saying, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are.”
The story hits home on a significant truth. The older we are, if we are honest, the more the world is filled with wonder and the more we realize just how much there is a mystery to so much.
I wonder if that is what the writer of Proverbs had in mind when he said, “Trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own understanding.” The older I get the less I realize I understand and the more I am led to just marvel and lean on faith to hold me up for what I don’t understand. Pity the poor person who thinks they have it all figured out and leaves no room for new discoveries and new experiences of faith.
How I wonder what you are. So it is wonder–full to still have a sense of awe and wonder when it comes to the beyond imagination and fullness of what God is doing in our lives.
Brave Journey,
Bill
