
You might expect to encounter a lot of things in Vegas....but God probably isn't one of them. Read about my first encounter with God in Vegas here.
One of my favorite Bible verses comes from Psalm 139 (there's a devotion on the psalm here):
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous - how well I know it.
How often do you think about how "wonderfully complex" your body is? Vegas is an unlikely place to reflect on that, but I did at Bodies: The Exhibition. Donated human bodies are prepared and preserved in ways that make it possible to see the skeleton, circulatory system, muscles, tendons, internal organs.....the amazing complexity and intricacy of the human body in a way that no textbook could ever depict it.
The smallest bones in the body, the hammer, anvil and stirrup, are responsible for our ability to hear. Looking at them, I thought of how quickly something that small would get lost if it somehow landed on my kitchen counter. They're not much bigger than the head of a pin, but they're perfectly shaped and work together perfectly, making it possible for us to hear.
Looking at one specimen, I marveled at the facial nerve. It's incredible to me that something no thicker than a piece of yarn is responsible for our abilities to communicate through facial expressions and speech. Facial expression and speech are so fundamental to what it means to be human....humanity seems a fragile things when you look at the facial nerve.
These are just two of many things I saw that brought me back again and again to the verses from Psalm 139. Those verses and our bodies tell of a God who cares about the most intimate, seemingly insignificant details. I marveled at how complex our bodies are and how, despite our abilities to take them apart to see how they work and even some of the things we know about how to fix them, they are a miracle we don't fully understand.
Kim

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