The WOW Factor

The Wow Factor paraphrased -  is an experience and/or observation that grabs  your attention and  holds it.. as you exclaim "WOW".

For me, I love 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  tag line for the old 'Wide World of Sports' show, and this all makes me  go.. WOW!

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It also love Art.  Ok, not true art.. but cartoons. ​You may never catch me in an art gallery perusing the works of Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Rembrandt, or Leonardo de Vinci, because I save my WOWs for Gary Larson - The FarSide, Berke Breathed - Bloom County, Bill Watterson - Calvin & Hobbes, and Jim Unger - Herman. WOW!

​side note:  one of my favorite Christmas  presents  of  all time my wife bought me The Complete Farside collection (3 volumes) in hardcover.  While many may think, "WOW, what a wasted of time and $$, but  for  me it was simply.. WOW!

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​Others love beautiful music.  Music is that Wow their lives while I am busy checking my TV for a game while drawing Back Pew cartoons. It may be a symphony, jazz quartet, rock & roll, hymnfest, or a modern worship service there is for most of music that makes us go Wow.  Of course I am old enough now that hip-hop, pop, and rap leave me shaking my head, cringe, and mutter "people like this stuff?.. wow."

Of course Disco, and Polka music I will just say.. no comment.

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Next, let's travel further from the center of my universe as we look up at the night sky mesmerized by the stars while our planet Earth orbits around a blazing ball of  burning gas (not Washington DC,.. it's the sun) realizing we are only one planet of 8 or 9 planets orbiting this sun and all this is part of The Milky Way Galaxy in an ever expanding universe all with order all functioning with precise science and math..  which  the  collective scientific community responds in one voice..  WOW!  

- note the above is an 89 word runon sentence... WOW.

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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 ( I like the wheel) realize all WOWs come from  our creator. 

​Don't get me wrong, 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, my passions  or hobbies.. LIFE IS FOREMOST ABOUT 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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