spirit & bone marrow? (Google Earth)

I just came across this verse in the Bible this morning and just had to write something down in response.

Do you ever experience something and just feel like your encounter isn't validated until you finally get to tell someone?

I do.

"As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything" - Ecclesiastes 11.5.

I will not attempt to give a thorough theological exegesis of this verse. Some theologians will spend their time wondering and debating about when the human spirit comes into existence (before time and creation, somewhere in the mind of God, or at birth, or at an age of accountability, etc.). Surely this is not what our Eastern King was writing about. Our Western minds love to miss the point so often.

Today, I do not wish to miss the point.

Today, it is simple. That is, my mind is simple. I can not understand the spiritual "beginning" of man, nor can I understand the mind and work of God who creates, "ex nihilo."

Passages and truths like this remind me of my smallness. Last week was the first time I ever used google earth. This also was quite an experience. I zoomed in and out all over London (our new home in about 66 days!!!). I looked at London School of Theology's football (soccer) filed and saw three men talking there by a tree. Then I zoomed out...all the way out to the satellite.

Needless to say, I felt very very small and it feels wonderful.