Hurricanes & Crayons.

“Trying to capture the might and majesty and power and beauty of God with Microsoft Word is like trying to capture the sheer terror of a hurricane with crayons on a piece of paper.”

I wrote that sentence three weeks after Stuff Christians Like started in 2008. I was trying to describe the magnitude of God and the impossibility of ever capturing even a sliver of His glory on paper.

But right now, I’m having a really hard time describing what we did in the last 25 days. We raised enough money to build two kindergartens in Vietnam! I told the AJC newspaper that when I received the message that the goal had unexpectedly been met, I was sitting in a meeting at work. I had to leave the room because I was afraid I was going to start crying.

This doesn’t begin to make sense. This thing God did. It doesn’t. But it is beautiful. And so is this video. It feels free floating and fantastic, the way that yesterday felt.

Capturing the love of God with a video isn’t much easier than with a pen or a keyboard, and the truth is that sometimes exuberant moments like this week can feel silly, but like David said in 2 Samuel 6, “I will celebrate before the LORD. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes.”