Religianity

Yesterday, I spent the entire day traveling from Denver to Cincinnati to Cleveland, over to Utah and then back to Denver. It took fourteen hours and four planes.

I was able to take 362 pictures from the air at some breathtaking clouds, groundcover and just fascinating things. It made me do a lot of wondering about the finger of God as he parted spaces to make way for water or all the funny artistic squiggles in the architect.

The clouds amazed me as usual. They come in so many different shapes, sizes, and colors. Kind of like people, I guess. Some of the clouds seemed just suspended as if there was a tiny little string that could have been holding them in place.

Three hundred and sixty-two pictures. I hope that I can use some for art in the future.

As we were flying, there was much turbulence. I thought that from the ground when one looks into the sky and sees a plane soaring in the midst that it seems all so smooth and effortless. It is easier to imagine the folks up in the sky riding along on soft, fluffy clouds instead of them being all jumpy and about to barf.

I think we tend to view other Christians and especially one’s with any sort of title whatsoever as them being strong, solid, great, loving, spiritually mature Christians. When in fact if we had the opportunity to get on their ‘plane’ we would see that they are just as scared as us, struggling to know who God really is in their life and forcing themselves to do all that has been told to them to do in order to be ‘all that’ and more.

The grass is never greener on the other side. Everyone has to mow his or her yard. Just because someone ‘looks’ spiritual or sounds religious does not mean a thing. It may just mean that they are in the same struggle as you but has managed to disguise in a cloak of ‘religianity’ or behind a few pretty sounding titles.