An Inquiring Mind

There is eye candy and there is visual art. Eye candy is pretty and shallow. Visual art is deep and full of meaning.

Similarly, there is milk for the spirit, and there is solid food. My dad loves solid food that grabs his thoughts and goes deep beyond a surface scratch. I observed this yesterday as he was describing to me his strong interest in reading and understanding the spiritual truths that are at stake behind the Creation / Evolution debate.

Dad has a deep desire to express the truth of God as told in the Bible. He has come to love God's word and the powerful life-giving message of the Gospel contained therein. I believe he has experienced its transforming power in his own life, in his relationships and in his outlook. He is baffled by the willingness of people to believe in a fuzzy, powerless God, without any apparent curiosity to seek out deeper truth. He also is aware that his views are not shared by many people in his congregation, nor even by the minister. He reads for his own understanding, and also that in some humble way he might have opportunity to share something of what he's learned with someone. But, like me, he gets easily tongue-tied if not intimidated by quick talking skeptics.

When mom found out that Dad bought another book, she was not surprized a bit. She's come to expect it. "Dad has a full hour of reading every morning before I get out of bed," she said.

Dad has a collection of Creationist literature that would fill a book table. There's no place to put it without clearing out the collection of National Geographics that are archived in the living room bookcase.

It is so good to see that my dad's mind has met its match in the scriptures and in the fact of God. "How precious are your thoughts towards me; how vast is the sum of them." Ps 139. What God knows and thinks about us is far more profound than we can conjure up about him. It puts us in our proper place as beautiful, puny creatures, greatly loved by our Creator.