This is my God.

Let the water be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear. The dry land shall be called earth, and the waters the sea.

- Genesis 1:9-10

Water, water everywhere. As I speak, Lake Zion (our parking lot) is full -- a foot and half plus of water. The ditch by Beaver Ave is full. Basements, rivers...you name it, they are filling back up. Water...

I was captured last week by the image of God in Genesis creating and setting boundaries for the sea as we stood near it on Cape Cod. I've seen mountains, big lakes, rivers, forests, and I have to say, the ocean might be the wildest thing I have encountered. There is a very clear sense that there is nothing we can do to contain or control it -- the waves do what they do, and we are at the mercy of whims of the sea. Now imagine...God ordering it. Setting the boundaries. Calling it forth, giving it the parameters by which it will exist. I had a mental picture of the hands of God cradling the ocean, and determining how it moves and where it does what it does.

That is my God. God of wonders, indeed.