Summer’s here, when the farmer in my husband comes out to
play—er, work—and we have barely seen
each other for three weeks, let alone conquering anything on our list of forty.
But yesterday we did something that is currently holding the record as my
favorite and merits a blog post all its own. Sure beats that jigsaw puzzle
still on our dining table at any rate.
#7 See Cirque du
Soleil.
If you’ve been to any Cirque du Soleil show, you know how mind-blowing
it is and how much it makes you want to run away to join the circus. And if you
haven’t seen one, there’s not a lot of point in my trying to describe it for
you. For a little taste of this one, you can watch a great little You Tube video here.
No
words adequately describe what you’ll see when you go, but here’s a few that
flitted around in my head as I watched:
Beauty. Grace. Wonder. Strength. Balance. Agility. Crazy
Creativity. Skill. Courage. Team work. Brilliance. All words that apply to God.
Wait, what? God? At a circus?
Oh, yes. You might not expect to find God there, but he was
everywhere I turned. And here’s why. I can’t be a witness to that kind of
outstanding, dazzling creativity and not be convinced yet again that
humans are created in the image of an amazing artist.
It’s like this. Look around the room you’re sitting in right
now. What do you see? Furniture? Technology? Art? Correct me if I’m wrong, but
each and every thing you see was created by someone, yes? You probably don’t
know who, and you likely don’t stop to think about how smart that person is or
how they’ve added to your life, but I’m pretty sure you acknowledge that a
designer exists and that they came up with something good.
Now tell me, what is the most complex thing in the room?
If you answered “computer” or any other man-made object, you’re
wrong. You are the most complex thing
in the room. You, and other people, will always be the answer to that question,
in any room you ever enter. I am the most complicated creation in my room at
the moment. How can I imagine I don’t have a creator?
And so when the spell-binding Cirque du Soliel performers mesmerize
me with their displays of what the human mind and body can achieve, I have no
choice but to look to the one who made them. Who made me. Who looks on his marvelous
creation with a smile and says, “It is good.”
Kurios will be in Winnipeg through July 9 and you can order
your tickets
here. Two things you need to know in advance: onsite parking costs $15 and
you should allow at least an extra 30-40 minutes before and after the show for
getting parked and getting out. Some folks parked at IKEA and walked over—not a
bad plan. Also, the tent is air conditioned and even if it’s hot outside, you
might want a sweater or jacket. I did.
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