The Gardener- The Tallest Man on Earth

March 18, 2011


It's officially been a week! The last two days have been a struggle, maybe it's because my motives for writing have clouded. I want this to be for me and Him. I want to have this be a chance to talk to Him and journal and just let it all out. I appreciate readers, but you're not the reason I am writing. 


That being said, thanks God for the wonderful weather. I have realized more and more that I need to have confidence to make decisions. The smallest ones become the biggest chores. Do I want to cut my hair, what am I doing this summer, what am I doing next semester, what am I doing with my life. I think I want to cut my hair to do something completely different, get rid of nine or so inches of the past. 


THE GARDENER
This was the first song that I listened to from The Tallest Man on Earth and I have to say it is still one of my favorites. I love his voice, the instruments, and the lyrics that don't make sense to me. As random as they seem to me, they all still fit so well. Just everything about how I feel when I listen to this song makes it wonderful. I have run to it so many times. I have driven around Ocala to it so many times. I have walked around outside to it so many times.


The song kind of makes me want to adventure. Go out and find a new place or look at the place I'm in a little differently. Sitting outside in some grass, sippin lemonade, barefoot. I think this is a picture that will be so artfully painted tomorrow. Great music, great weather, and awe for an even greater God.


Step outside and experience the Son.


Psalm Eight
Goodness, He has a way about Him. Doesn't He? This Psalm goes pretty well with how I commonly experience God's presence.


People have been asking me a lot lately, and it's completely understandable, why I decided to move to North Carolina. I have a couple of different answers, but a lot of the reason I moved is that Boone is so geographically different than Ocala or Orlando. I love Florida, please do not get me wrong. The beach is one of my favorite places on the planet, and when I am home, well I can't really describe the feeling. But Boone and North Carolina in general has so many ways to see His handiwork. Just take a look at the mountains and it puts how small you are in to perspective. I think seeing the sun go down behind a mountain is one of the prettiest things I have ever witnessed. 


It doesn't just put my size to scale, but also it makes God seem unimaginably big. These mountains are huge, and they aren't even the most impressive ones that are on the face of the planet. A God that placed them on the map has to be at least big enough to pick them up and put them there. Those are giant hands! 


"I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous,
      your handmade sky-jewelry,
   Moon and stars mounted in their settings.
      Then I look at my micro-self and wonder,
   Why do you bother with us?
      Why take a second look our way?" (Psalm 8: 3-4)


Why take a second look our way? It's crazy to think the God that created this vast and various landscape took the time to make me as intricately has He did. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! That's what He does with us. And He trusts us enough to put us in charge of it. We get the chance to wake up and experience the gifts He has given us with, the ones He entrusted us with. Those big ole hands that made the earth are holding us so tight. 


I'll say it again: Step outside and experience the Son. 

The Gardener