Just before highway I-84 crosses from Connecticut into Massachusetts there is a wonderful restaurant that gives away free books. While one waits for one’s food one can browse the shelves and select up to three free books. Rarely do I find three worth carrying home but usually I find one I like. Late this afternoon I got one. I also like sitting at the window and looking out upon a life-size wooden moose. This evening he was covered with snow. I think he is huge but two weeks ago my wife and son from California were in the forest here caching and came upon two very real, very alive moose. (Mooses? Meese?) I am so envious. I have spent fifteen years wandering about our forest and have never seen even one. She tells me the wooden moose at the restaurant is small compared to what they saw.
Life is a wonderful adventure. Each day brings something new to experience and enjoy. When I read the first two verses of the Book of Hebrews I get excited about our future. “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.”
It is the plural on the word “worlds” that lights my imagination. Surely this is not speaking of the other empty planets in our solar system but wonderful worlds spread all over God’s vast space. Paul also wrote in Ephesians 3, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.”
Written by Roger Bothwell on December 7, 2009
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