On a family trip out West in our 1965 Ambassador
station wagon, we stopped at Mount Rushmore . We
were road weary. The temperatures had been in the 90s, and we didn’t have AC. It
was well past noon and we
were hungry. We needed time to stretch and eat. But wait, we wanted to see the
park, visit the tourist center, and see the monument.
We grabbed a cooler with food and started the trek. There
was time to eat before the next showing of the documentary describing Gutzon Borglum
What amazed me in the telling of the story was both the
work it took to make the sculpture in the first place and the work it takes to
maintain the sculpture after it was completed. It had been only a rock face at
one time, and now the faces of Washington , Jefferson , Lincoln and Roosevelt were revealed for all the world to see. Something
incredibly common became something marvelously remarkable because of the vision
of one man.
In Ephesians, we find that God’s vision for us also
takes the common and makes us marvelously remarkable. This revelation is not
something that God creates and then leaves. God continues to repair and shape
us through the gift of grace. Surely this is not our own work but a gift—we are what God has made us in Jesus Christ —monuments
of wonder for the world.
Prayer
Lord, you have made us a
little lower than the angels; and you continue to walk with us, caring for us,
forgiving us, and leading us. Thank you for your constant care. Amen
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