Stonehenge

 It was a perfect day for great conquests. We set off across the creek into our yard's wild side, chore boots, stained jeans, long sleeves to protect us from those insidious thorns.

It smelled like the first true autumn day: crisp. Light. Almost sharp. Exhilarating. What better day than this to build our Stonehenge.

I watched the kids work through planning phase, gathering phase, construction phase.

 One site seemed to require more forethought than the other, but I'm not judging.

The point was attempt to think through the process of this ancient task. How did they measure this huge and almost perfect circle back then without lasers or satellites? How did they move such gargantuan stones from over 300 miles away? What incredible significance did this site hold for these people? Why would they bother?


And my favorite question....drum roll, please....What does God want us  to learn from this structure?  

What are you building day after day? What will your sweat, tears, ambitions bring to fruition?  I have to ask myself: when I am gone and someone sorts through my sky line of life-efforts, will they be able to make sense of what they find? Will it show something of the amazing grace and mercy of an all-powerful Creator in my life?

To quote a line from a popular Christian song: "I'd be building my kingdom, just to watch it fade away. It's so true: that's me without You."  One day the only Kingdom that is any kingdom at all will truly come, eclipsing all others.  Every monument to man's greatness will crumble to dust, "but the Word of the Lord stands forever" (1 Peter 1:25).