{"id":1305,"date":"2015-07-27T12:38:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:43:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:43:39","slug":"finding-the-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/finding-the-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding The Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHowever, as it is written: \u201cWhat no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived\u201d \u2014 the things God has prepared for those who love him\u2014\u201d
\n1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday, in church, Landon was quietly drawing on the back of Penny’s bulletin with a ballpoint pen. I confess I was watching him from time to time, in part, to ensure he wasn’t drawing on anyone’s clothes. He was drawing blobs and rough circles, scribbles and lines – not bad for a three year-old. <\/span><\/p>\n

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At one point, he handed me the pen and pointed to a bare corner of the paper. I took the pen and just quickly drew a star, the kind we have all made, without picking up the point of the pen. In my eyes, it wasn’t even a very good one…the top point was shorter than the others. Blasted perfectionism. <\/p>\n

I moved my hand and, when Landon saw the star, he looked up at me with wide eyes and said in that excited whisper-that’s-not-a-whisper, “Daddy! What did you DRAW?!” <\/p>\n

His laughter was a great reward in that brief moment. His wonder and awe at my simple star made me wish that I wasn’t such a grown-up who often lets the wonderful and awesome moments in life slip by without much fanfare.<\/p>\n

And then, I read that verse in I Corinthians this morning and am reminded that the most wonderful visions that I can conceive in my mind are but scribbles and stick figures compared to the plans He has prepared for my future – in this life and eternity – and for all of his children.<\/p>\n

Lord, help us look for and find the wonder you will show us today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHowever, as it is written: \u201cWhat no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived\u201d \u2014 the things God has prepared for those who love him\u2014\u201d 1 Corinthians 2:9 NIV Yesterday, in church, Landon was quietly drawing on the back of Penny’s bulletin with a ballpoint pen. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16,3,4,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnlocklair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}