I like Boxes

I like boxes. they come in all shapes and sizes. they are fun to make pretend rocket-ships, boats, castles, and bunkers out of. On top of that my love for boxes goes deeper you can organize stuff in boxes. like the little boxes on an excel spread sheet, or by stacking boxes in the closet. (Ya know old stuff you never use on the bottom, stuff you'll use once a year next, and the legos you planned on having time to use at least every other week (the legos you haven't touched in a year)

All that to say There is one problem with Boxes, some how they can creep in to your mind and you start trying to organize everything into boxes, all the information you get, into nice organized boxes in your head. Like the H2O box in my head i know its 2 Hydrogens and one Oxygen in a covalent bond, H2O makes water and its good to drink and H2O goes back in to my Chemistry box when i'm done thinking about it. But there are somethings we try to Box that can't fit into a Box and do put it into a box would not do it or ourselves justice

Somethings that don't belong in boxes:

• People
• Ourselves
• Dreams
• The Future
• The Present
• Infinity
• Eternity
• God

I'll keep my ramblings on the topic of God today. We can't put God in a box how could you limit an all powerful infinite God to the expectations and restrictions inside your head, it doesn't make since but I'm guilty of it sometimes. How arrogant of me to ever think I've narrowed God down or figured him out well enough to say I know him like I know H2O. I can barely say I've scratch the surface of knowing my best friends and parents. People are so deep and complex that we can spend our whole lives learning new things about them, there are still times when people we've known our whole lives surprise us. Sometimes when we put people or God in a box we don't allow our selves to see them for who they really are, we miss out of how funny the quite kid in the back of the room is, or how thoughtful our grandparents can be, or how much of a comedian God really is. Noticing the small things in people takes time, how much more time then should it take to really behold, and understand The creator of all things, the father of truth and reason, and the mind that created this universe we know so little about. How Great a thought that we get to spend a whole eternity getting to know The God who Made the people we love in His Image

(Some verses that come to mind: John 3:16 John 17:3 Genesis 1:26 Isaiah 55:8-9 )