We Stood Upon StarsSample

God

I am the last of the men in my father’s line. Our history has been written by the road. Some of that history has been lost. I’ve gone to West Texas to search the highway for clues. I hoped for a discovery that would help me navigate roads ahead. Marriage. Kids. Career. Life. Death. Not all searches are about answers.

I thought about the men I follow and their urge for open roads and how men throughout history have succumbed to the same urge. There is something embedded in us that draws us to the horizon. We are not entirely at home here. So, we look beyond the oceans and deserts and mountains to the stars, and we wonder why. It’s the distant wind that catches our face in the breeze and we breathe it deep through our nostrils and it smells of freedom and we know it is freedom we seek.

In Acts 17:24 the Bible says, “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.” In verse 27 it goes on to give the reason for this. “God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.”

Some searches are only about the search. They reveal something about who we are or who we are meant to be. The longing for beauty tells us we were made for beauty. The longing to share a campfire with someone we love, or are beginning to love, tells us we were made for love. The longing itself tells us there is something, or someone, that draws our hearts.

So the search grabs hold and we can’t explain why. It comes on like a sickness, and the only cure is to pack some maps and rations and go. We are not made for the cages we’ve erected around ourselves. We are meant for freedom. Where trees and mountaintops point to the stars and where canyons echo and waters cool and where wind is scrubbed clean by prairie grass. These are the lost places where we go to find God.

Where do you go to find God?

Do you find him there?

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