Giggles and Fish... San Fran gift #1



I can't quite figure out how to make this picture vertical...This was taken in the San Fransisco Science Academy and it was fantastic.

I am amazed with fish, the color, the shapes, the sizes, the personalities, the fantastic mixture of it all swimming around lazily, darting, sitting, scoping... It is just a peek into the creative mind of our God. Just a peek, mind you, and at the same time something a very small child can grasp.
The morning we were there it seemed as if it was fathers day out  with their little 3-4 year old children. There were a lot of families running from one tank of fish to the other.
Nick and I were just starting to look into the first aquarium when this little boy ran giggling past us laughing and screaming...whale! ...whale!  That would have been interesting in that enclosed environment. What he saw was a small shark and he was so excited and giggly,laughing, pointing, stopping, running back and yelling. I could not help think that this was exactly how God much have felt when he began this creation process. He must have been giggling.  Every time a 3 year old giggles it is that same pleasure. SO much of the ocean and its inhabitants are only there for God's pleasure as He is the only one who gets to see them all the time. When they are displayed for us humans to see...the child innately seems to  get the splendor, sense of humor and wonder. I think that is why they were  giggling. It is funny, it is wonder..full, it is spectacular.
 It was a gift to be a part of the whirl of visual and audible magnificence.