Wonderfully Made

Yesterday we had to be a bit creative for Mother's Day. Aaron was working all day Sunday as a waiter. Shannon had her tearful good bye with her boyfriend, Al, early in the morning after we made him breakfast.

After church we decided to join Aaron at work -- to let him wait on us at Outback Steakhouse for Mother's Day. Even though Susan didn't have both of our kids at the table, we were in a sense all together. And her heart was so full of joy.

During the meal we had a chance to catch up on Shannon's semester. She's finished her second year of pre-nursing and this fall enters the toughest part of this marathon as she spends her next two years at the nursing school next to Hendrick Hospital. Before our steaks came I casually mentioned something about salt in our diet. Shannon said, "Dad, do you know why salt causes high blood pressure?" She then launched into this detailed description of how the kidneys function and how salt attaches to water and impacts the blood stream and puts pressure on the blood vessels and thus impacts the heart.

I then asked her to tell Susan and me about what else she learned this semester in Anatomy and Physiology. She mentioned the various systems in our bodies -- skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, nervous, reproductive. The more she talked about the human body the more I was in awe of what complex creatures we are. And of course, the more in awe I became of our Creator in how He makes human beings. We truly are wonderfully made, as the psalmist says.

Very early this morning I woke up thinking of our amazing bodies and of how amazing the Lord is. Just think of all the things happening in my body right now as I tap away these words on this computer. My brain is directing my fingers to touch certain knobs on the key board while the optic nerve sends signals back to my brain.

And then to think that this amazing, Almighty God humbled Himself and became one of us. And then took our place on the cross so that we could one day live with Him forever in fellowship with Him -- in new, eternal, everlasting bodies. Wow!

Jim