Globes

So I had a weird thought today...

I have always had a slight obsession with globes. I think it started when I was in 5th or 6th grade. I would look at the globe, close my eyes, spin it and wonder where my finger would land. Most of the time it landed in the water but whenever it landed on land, I would day dream about what people were doing in that particular part of the world.

Maybe that is where my dream of traveling began. It became real to me that people populated the world; that when I looked at a globe each differing colored area represented a place where people lived. It made me visualize the millions and billions of people who live in the world and it made me realize I want to go visit with as many as possible.

I'm in Washington. I'm not too far from home-just a couple centimeters away when looking at a globe.

My weird thought happened after my basketball game. First of all, my team got murdered. We got beat by at least 25 points (but I will have you know that I scored 17 points!!). After the game I stayed for a bit to wind down and watch the game after. And it made me think, people are probably playing this silly game all over the globe because I know they are in Utah-I used to play in Utah-when I lived in West Jordan and Logan. The thoughts kept coming and coming...I wasn't literally looking at a globe but I was imaging it in my mind. I was remembering experiences I had when I was in Europe playing basketball. I played with random people in a church building. And one time I played at a park in New York. And then I remembered my buddy Charley who lived in Peru-we played basketball together and he thought I was magic because I could spin a ball on my finger. Then I started thinking about this guy that I passed while I was driving to California years ago. He was standing pumping gas as I drove by. I remember him because as I passed him I thought, "I will probably never see that man again. I wonder if he is a good man. I wonder if we would be friends. I wonder about his family." The man had a white beard and had kind eyes. I remembered that he smiled at me. I'll never forget that man and I hope he's doing well. And then I started thinking about all the people in the entire world who make a simple globe come to life. And then I remembered that all of those people, all of the billions and billions of people are children of God. And then I was amazed.

I am still amazed and I am grateful.