Having very young grandbabies, I find myself re-uttering the prayers I placed, many years ago, over my young babies. “Dear Heavenly Father, I ask not for “wonderful” years in the lives of the children with whom you have blessed me, but for “wonder filled” minutes each and every day of their journey on earth.”
“Wonderful” and “wonder filled” – what’s the difference, you might ask? True answer is one gives fun to your days. The other brings SON to your nights. “Wonderful” implies coasting through life on a vacation, enjoying whip cream and cherries as a main food staple. “Wonder filled” relies on being carried over life’s rugged mountains through the nourishment of Christ’s power, strength and miracles.
“Wonderful” is human life, coated in sugar. “Wonder filled” is the aroma of Divine life, flavored in awe, as we taste communion with God.
We indoctrinate youngsters to “wonderful” by reading stories of fairytales and unrealistic human relationships. We teach “wonder filled” to our (and God’s) children by opening up to them the pages of the most read book of all, the Bible.
Lives predominantly fed “wonderful” face starvation when storm, ravaging rains devour worldly, sunny scenarios. Souls nourished in “wonder filled” reliance withstand earthly furor because their sustenance feasts upon knowing the reigning SON shines through every worldly trial and tribulation.
Much inner peace, and outer direction, is to be found if we would take time to close the “wonderful” fantasies of our world and unearth the “wonder filled” realities of Scripture. “You are the God who works wonders; You have made known Your might among the peoples.” Psalm 77:14 ESV)
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 