FROM DIVINE CONSPIRACY, by Dallas Willard - While I was teaching in South Africa…Matthew Dickason took me out to see the beaches near his home in Port Elizabeth I stood in stunned silence and then slowly walked toward the waves. Words cannot capture the view that confronted me. I saw space and light and texture and color and power.that seemed hardly of this earth God sees this all the time Great tidal waves of joy must constantly wash through his being.
We pay a lot of money to get a tank with a few tropical fish in it and never tire of looking at their brilliant iridescence and marvelous forms and movements. But God has seas full of them, which he constantly enjoys. Human beings can lose themselves in card games or electric trains and think they are fortunate.
But to God there is available, “towering clouds of gases trillions of miles high, backlit by nuclear fires in newly forming stars, galaxies cartwheeling into collision and sending explosive shock waves boiling through millions of light-years of time and space.” These things are all before him, along with numberless unfolding rosebuds, souls, and songs—and immeasurably more of which we know nothing.
Cited in Dave Harris' Treasure Trove in Passing Vessels: Ordinary people leading intriguing lives. iUniverse. Kindle Edition.
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