I write this to you from a deck chair on a cruise ship.

Instead of flying back to the USA at the end of this trip to Zagreb, we found a transatlantic cruise for the same cost.

So here we are. We are currently 700 miles west of Lisbon and 200 miles east of Ponta Delgada, our next stop.

Being on a boat hundreds of miles from land is an amazing experience. I’ve been on a few cruise ships, but never hundreds of miles from any land. (I think even the transatlantic flights I’ve taken have always been closer to land than we currently are.)

I was walking along the deck this morning. I walked all the way around the ship & surveyed the horizon, 360 degrees. I saw a few ships in the distance, but I did not see land anywhere.

You probably already know this, but: the ocean is big. REALLY big. You don’t feel how big it is until you scan the horizon all around and it’s all you can see.

Being unable to see land is a humbling experience. Ocean big, Perry REALLY small and insignificant and fragile.

How big is the God who spoke this vastness into being?

How great is his focus & love that he would have any consciousness of me, fragile & insignificant though I am?

Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

Has it not been told you from the beginning?

Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,

and its people are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,

and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

He brings princes to naught

and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

No sooner are they planted,

no sooner are they sown,

no sooner do they take root in the ground,

than he blows on them and they wither,

and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

“To whom will you compare me?

Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.  

(Isa 40.21ff)