Delmarva

Just across the Chesapeake Bay from us is the Delmarva Peninsula.  It is a 170 mile long stretch of land than ranges from 12 to 70 miles in width and has a population of about 700,000 people.  Most of the state of Delaware is found on this land, but Maryland has nine counties and a large population around the city of Salisbury.  Virginia holds the skinny piece at the southern tip with only two counties.  From the air you can't tell that this peninsula is three different states.  It is one piece of land surrounded almost entirely by large bodies of water.  For some reason man has decided to create three major governments to manage it.  I am struck by the thought that what God has created whole, man will try to divide for his purposes.  Views of the earth from space remind us of the integrated beauty of the globe.  The political divisions of man are not evident from that distance.  And I wonder if we sometimes divide and compartmentalize our own lives to try to control and manage our lives in pieces, rather than viewing them as a whole...fashioned by the Creator and not by ourselves.  Perhaps the starting point is to look on ourselves from a distance and behold the beauty from a different perspective!

Job 10:8 

'Your hands have made me and fashioned me,
An intricate unity;"

blessings,

Rob Smith