Big

How do we decide that a three letter word is acceptable to describe our Savior?  Sure there are words like huge, awesome and omnipresent, but the word big implies something that everyone can understand.  When I was a child learning shapes, colors, and sizes, I learned the difference between big and small just as I learned the difference between the colors orange and purple.  I learned songs as a young Sunday School scholar that went something like "my God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do."  I understand big.  Everyone understands big.

Recently, I have replayed some of my favorite songs that made an impact on me through adulthood; lyrics such as "All the heavens cannot hold you Lord, how much less to dwell in me" in All the Heavens by Third Day, and even "the same hands that created all of this, they created you and I" in Beautiful by Shawn McDonald offer up flowery awe of God's big-ness.

I think back to my conversation with God when He called me to be a nurse.  When I told Him I was scared of needles, He said to me "I am bigger than needles."  I now start IVs, give shots, and help with needle filled procedures every day that I'm at work.  He is big!

So, why do I worry about the small stuff?  Oh, because sometimes, in my not-so-infinite wisdom, I somehow look around me at this incredible world that He created in 6 days with an added day for rest, and I  forget how very BIG my God is!  However, I am thankful every day that He doesn't forget about small me.