Today isn't anything earth-shattering or extremely profound (does that mean some of the other entries have been? :) But I just love my son and how extremely different he is and how God has shown me so much through his little life. Today he spent over an hour making thumbprint characters from my childhood book, Ed Emberly's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book. Jack doesn't usually spend an hour on anything! For some reason, he was absolutely absorbed in creating other worlds and fantastic stories from thumbprint characters and animals. He was covered in ink by the time it was all said and done, but it was worth it! This page alone took a five full minutes of narration for him to truly convey the depth of all that is occurring. I love the child's mind and how ink and thumbprints can turn into an underwater adventure. Just as I've been awed by the creative workings of the Lord in nature this week, that pales in comparison to the stunning depth of the created human mind. All the intricacies of the human body that keep man alive and all the areas of the mind that astound us are a mere drop in the vastness of our Creator. I had true joy today watching a little (usually very busy) guy sit with pursed lips and concentrated eyes working to communicate the elaborate depth of his imagination on ink and paper. I'm not even quite sure why this made the gratitude journal today; I just know I watched and smiled and praised the Lord for the creative mind of my son.
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