Never Alone in a Crowd

I was recently sitting on our back porch reading a book. As I took a moment to consider what I had read, I glanced into the sky. There, several thousand feet above me, I saw the sun glint off the body of a silver airplane, its vapor trails telling the tale of where it had been. I’m sure that I suffer from some degree of ADD as my mind instantly wandered to thoughts of the people on that plane. Who were they, where were they going? Was this a journey of pleasure, or a mission of grief? How many were businessmen who, as I have often done, were working on the next project that was due while ignoring the glorious beauty of God’s creation?
I thought that for a brief second, these travelers occupied the same vertical space as I, though thousands of feet away, and we did not know each other existed. I then took notice of the traffic on the highway near our home and realized that these travelers were much closer, but again we knew nothing of each other. It somehow makes one feel isolated even when they are in a crowd.

David proclaimed in Psalm 139 that God ‘covered me while still in the womb’. There is one who knows us, and whom we should know. I am never alone as God has known me forever and always.
Jim