February 22: Of Realization and Awe

Leviticus 13:1-59

Mark 6:1-29

Psalm 39:1-13

Proverbs 10:10 

    "Isn't this the carpenter?  Isn't this Mary's son and th eborther of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon?  Aren't His sisters here with us?"  And they took offense at Him. - Mark 6:3

How utterly, painfully, tragically sad that because they thought they knew Him, those who heard Him teach were blind to everything else He was.  If the story about her is true, how much better would have been for those who heard Jesus speak had they been like Diane, the daughter of Walt?

It seems that, until she was six and a classmate told her what he did, Diane didn't know what her father, Walt Disney, did for a living.  So that night, when he came from home from work and plopped himself down in his chair, she approached him with a curious look on her face.  As he turned to her, she asked him hesitantly, "are you Walt Disney?"

Walt said he was.  

Diane then asked a second time: "I mean, THE Walt Disney?"

Realizing what was going on in his daughter's head, Walt supposedly smiled, and said "yes."

Diane then reportedly pulled both hands from behind her, in them pencil and paper, and asked her father "can I please have your autograph?"

Father teach us to never take for granted all that You are and all You have done.  Give us the same realization and awe for You as little Diane Disney had for her father.  And help us to want Your words even more than she wanted his.