human beings!

Lol. Sometimes little kids say "human beings" and it comes out "human beans," lol. So cute. But anyhow. Humans are SO complex! To think that if we were to catalog one person's every characteristic, thought, and action, I do not know how many books it would take. Really words are inadequate to describe us, because really we cannot even fully comprehend ourselves. I like to think about how God knows our "inmost being" - depths I'm certain I have but don't even know about. If we were really the greatest beings in this universe, I think we would have minds that could comprehend and fully know ourselves. As it is, we do not. But just think - God does for Himself, and that is another characteristic that makes Him God. That is almost scary to think of fully knowing yourself. But He can, and it doesn't destroy Him. I think that it would destroy me to know that much. My mind just couldn't hold that much knowledge.

The fact is, humans are not only complex but unique! It just blows my mind to think how every single human being who has ever existed since the beginning of creation is a unique person whom no personality test or description can encompass, who has their own unique likes and dislikes and needs and pet peeves and background that shaped them. Every single person I know is SO complex! There are only a few people I can begin to understand deeply, because deeply understanding people takes time. But even all the people I have never started to try to understand are unique in their own way. Every single person! I understand some people better than others; some I try but fail to understand. But oh...forget all that is without; it is certainly mind-boggling to think of all there is to be known just within ourselves!

So I suppose maybe that is why God gave us language, art, music, dance, and all these forms of self-expression. In a painting, in a song, in poetry and prose, in dance, whether ballet or ballroom - these are where we glimpse the breadth of all that is within us. We don't need planes to fly or spaceships to travel light years from the earth; we have that capacity within us!