He's into details

i am onto a book called The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Recflection, and i have a powerful feeling like it is going to be something quite phenomenal. i have only read five pages, but in those five small pages, i have read enough to almost blow my mind...in a good way. he, the author, sees the world the way i long to see it, the way that C.S. Lewis and Chesterton and Seerveld see the world: everything in it is lit and radiant and curious because God delights in it. it tickles His fancy. He never gets bored of making the sun to rise, gravity to perform, or earth's "tectonic" plates to shift and grumble. but He delights in even smaller things than these. and that's where this author comes in. he writes about the dazzling wonder of food, and how much God loves it:

"Or, conculsively, peel an orange. Do it lovingly - in perfect quarters like little boats, or in staggered exfoliations like a flat map of the round world, or in one long spiral, as my grandfather used to do. Nothing is more likely to become garbage than orange rind, but for as long as ayone looks at it in delight, it stands a million triumphant miles from the trash heap.
That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outsied the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandeleir, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it..."

i just keeping thinking about our God in terms of these small delights. does the god of Islam take pleasure in oranges and sea foam and turtledoves? does buddah get out there and smell the roses? does satan himself love anything at all? the fact that we have these things, and can delight in them, bears heavy testimony to the true God. this world is His handiwork and from it we learn what kind of God we serve. He has not created all these things in disdain, but rather in great love. He always intended to take pleasure in His things, and He does. this is unique to our God.

if you're ever tempted to put God in a box, as i am, get this book. it's by Robert Farrar Capon. also, read Chesterton's Orthodoxy, Lewis' Perelandra, and Ezekiel. :)