God's Floorboard

Last night I getting out of my car and glanced up into the beautiful night sky. The sky was perfectly clear and the stars were incredible. I guess it is kind of like looking at my children, I always notice the beautiful stars and look up every time I'm outside and think "wow". But there are times I sit and stare in adoration, in amazement, in worship to the creator. "Wow" doesn't seem appropriate, not adequate for such beauty.

I once heard the story of a young boy who adored his grandmother. He described the feeling of visiting her house. The warmth, the wonderful smells, the incredible feeling of home, the peace of being held by someone you know loves you so deeply.............all of this awaiting him every time he visited his grandmother.

Like most houses build without a basement, there was a crawl space under his grandmother' s house. She stored a lot of things there, and once asked her grandson to get something from under the house for her. He crawled under. It was a dark, cold, damp place. Bugs, rats,and spiders were many. As he was there he could hear his grandmother's footsteps above. He took a minute to lie down and look up at the floorboard of her house. "How could it be so miserable down here, and yet so perfect on the other side of this floorboard?", he thought.

Take a minute to look up and gaze at the incredible beauty of the stars tonight............If that is God's floorboard, imagine what awaits us on the other side.