Stand in Awe

As the alarm clock rolled over to 6:00 AM it started beeping. With every beep my weekend was replaying in my mind. Beep...caught my dryer on fire. Beep...Gabe got sick in the middle of nowhere trying to go visit an ill friend. Beep...was outside in the freezing cold trying to fill in holes in the yard after the dog went on a digging rampage. I finally rolled over, hit the off button, rolled back over to see Gabe snoozing away. It was a school holiday and with Shane and Kristina in Tennessee over the weekend for a youth trip Gabe had been keeping me company at night.

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"I'm going to call in and relax today after a crazy weekend" I thought to myself. I hopped up, grabbed my cell phone and started the calling in process. It didn't take me very long and within ten minutes tops I was snuggled back up under the covers and was snoozing again. Gabe and I were picture perfect and I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could see Z's floating up from the bed as we snored.

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Both of us finally woke up and got moving around 10AM. Since he was out of school and I wasn't going to work I decided to go ahead and take him for his allergy shot. We both showered, dressed and out the door we went. We talked all the way to the doctor's office and almost raced into the building because the wind was blowing so hard it felt like it could blow you over! Gabe ran in the door first and rounded the corner to the elevators before I even crossed the threshold. I could see the elevator door was open but he was just standing there.

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"Go on, son, this elevator is going up and so are we" I said.

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He just stood there. Mouth gaped open, eyes bugging out of his head, knuckles all but resting on the ground he was bent over so far. If a fly would have flown by him...he would have swallowed it.

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"Son" I said a little more stern "get on the elevator." I placed my hand on his back and nudged him a little bit this time.

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Nothing. No movement from him, no words from him, nothing. At this point I glanced up into the elevator and there stood the cutest girl I had probably ever seen. She was probably right around Gabe's age, 12 maybe 13, with long blonde hair, and was dressed in the cutest outfit. With her hand on her hip she said "You gonna get on here or what?"

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At her words all he did was shut his mouth. He didn't utter a word, didn't nod his head, he just stood there.

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"Son!" I said a little harsher while literally pushing his back "Get on the stinking elevator!"

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Once again, he just stood there as if he wasn't even on the same planet as me. The doors began to close at this point and we stood there in silence for what seemed like a lifetime. "Umm, hello Gabe, you with me?" I questioned.

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As he turned his head towards me it was if he had just heard me for the first time. His next words all but made me pass out. "She was HOOOOOOOOT, Mom!" At this very moment I wanted to burst out laughing. It was obvious that my sweet, precious "little boy" had crossed over to the dark side where there is a land of "hot girls" and from this moment on there is no coming back!

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"Son," I began to instruct "you are going to see a lot of hot girls in your lifetime but just remember that no matter how many hot girls you meet, how many hot girls you see, you will always and I mean ALWAYS have to listen to your Mother when she talks!"

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"But, Momma, you don't understand," he explained "the minute I saw her, my ears quit working!"

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My precious "baby" was in awe! This girl had gotten his attention in a way that he didn't know how or why or where it even came from! If she had asked him to get the moon for her at that very moment he would have tried to figure out a way to fly to the sky and make it happen. Have you ever been awestruck? Can you imagine how awestruck we will all be when we see Jesus? Oh I can't wait for the day!

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In my mind I cannot even begin to imagine what heaven looks like. The splendor, the awesomeness, the peace, the comfort, the joy, the view, the magnificence of it all. I just can't imagine. Psalm 33:8 says "Let all the earth fear the LORD; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him." Stand in awe of him! How wonderful....with nothing to say, no words, no thoughts, no nothing....just standing there awestruck by his mercy, by his grace, by his awesomeness! We will stand in awe! But, you know what? We shouldn't wait until we get to heaven to stand in awe of him. Every day, all day he is blessing us, protecting us, comforting us, healing us, we stand in awe of him today!