The Wow Factor

The Wow Factor,  I would paraphrase as an experience and/or observation that grabs  your attention and  holds it.. big time.

When I was young I was a decent athlete, and fell in love with sports. The speed, power,  finesse, strategy, and teamwork of great athletes and teams playing to win the game.

​The thrill of victory and  agony of defeat was  the  catch phrase for the old Wild World of Sports show, and this all makes me  go.. WOW!

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It also goes  without saying (though I  am saying it) I love Art.  Ok, not true art.. I love cartoons, and have doodled cartoons ever since age five.

​You will never catch me wandering into  an art gallery pondering the works of Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Rembrandt, or Leonardo de Vinci, BUT.. I save  my WOWs for Gary Larson - The FarSide, Berke Breathed - Bloom County, Bill Watterson - Calvin & Hobbes, and Jim Unger - Herman. 

​In fact  one of my favorite Christmas  presents  of  all time my wife bought me The Complete Farside collection (3 volumes) in hardcover.  For most folks this is a waste of time and $$, but  for  me.. WOW!

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Others are enthralled by the world of beautiful music.  Personally I enjoy listening to music ranging from Jazz to Rock & Roll, Hymns to modern Worship.

But.. I don't sing so good,  can't clap my hands to a beat, or even play a Kazoo.  Music is that Wow for many.. but for me I am  sorry but I am checking my TV for a game while drawing Back Pew cartoons.

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Now as  we travel further from the  center of my universe we find many looking up at the night sky mesmerized by the stars while our planet orbits around a blazing ball of  burning gas and  realizing we are only one planet in one galaxy in an ever expanding universe all with order and functioning with more science and math that you could  shake a stick at (real old  saying that means ALOT) .. and  the  collective scientific community responds in one voice..  WOW!  <-- note this was an 83 word runon sentence.

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Did I choose your WOW tirgger? Well no matter if it is  science, music,  art, sports, or watching the Wheel of Fortune ( big fan of the wheel)  realize all WOWs come from  our creator.  Our Wow moments are real and there  is  no need to  apologize for  shouting wow (unless you  are in church, or during a funeral).. BUT step out further to realize our God is the source of all things  WOW. 

​If we don't we miss the point of this  big ol' Beautiful world. Life is  not  about me, life is  not about my passions  and hobbies.. LIFE IS ABOUT OUR GOD, and the worship and adoration he deserves.

How great is  our God! WOW!

• For as the Heavens  are Higher than the Earth so are my ways  than your ways,  and my thoughts yours. Is 55:8-9
• He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. Ps 147:4
• Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God? Ps 77:3
  and last but not least
• For  God so loved the world that he gave his  only son, that whoever believes will not perish but have eternal life. Jo 3:16  Wow,  and WOW!

Thank you  God for your  amazing creation that is your handiwork, and thank you for your love and  grace in this  life, and the promise of  eternity with you our wonderful creator.
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Blessings

Jeff

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