Here’s some real sentences from fifth grade vocabulary homework (farming was the theme) :
1. “Our farmers agriculture is to put all of his chicken eggs in the fridge.”
2. “I went to the trough but on the way I played trumpet.”
3. “I ate corral for it is crunchy.”
4. “Some people might be agricultures when they grow up.”
5. “My poultry has a lot of poo on the grass.”
Believe you me, I was laughing out loud as I read these. The assignment was to make sure to use the vocabulary word in a sentence. So, as it seems, even if they didn’t quite know how to use the word, they put it in a sentence, any sentence. As the humor passed and I thought about it a little more, I was reminded of a talk I once heard about how God sees us. In it, the speaker was saying how he was around this very socially awkward person and wondered something like, “Gee, I wonder how people can stand to be around that person all the time?” At that moment, God nudged him and said “You know, that’s how it is with me and you.”
I wonder if I sometimes say things to God that sound something akin to “I went to the trough but on the way I played trumpet.” In my Old Testament class, we’ve been learning for a few weeks about historical backgrounds, translations, languages, and all this crazy stuff that God worked through to bring us the Bible we have now, and it’s such an amazing thing to me. The more I learn about God, the more I realize I don’t know. Every time I think I’ve got some important theological concept down, something else comes along that reveals that God is far more complex than I ever knew before.
I also turned 26 today. (Thanks for all the well wishes and for my party!) I guess along the same lines, I’m seeing that the older I get, the more I realize there is to know, see, and understand. It’s really refreshing, actually, because what it means is that life isn’t going to get boring, because the God of the universe has interlaced so much into everything – relationships, society, technology, wisdom, you name it. Right now, even though the journey ahead isn’t crystal clear, it’s exciting.
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