Lookin’ and Findin’
Insights From Vacation Bible School
Discovering What God Has Already Created
The Artist’s Eye
Emily was different.
While the rest of us were busy trying to color inside the lines, she was creating something none of us could quite name.
Her blond hair fell across her face as she sketched on yellow construction paper. When she finished, Ryan asked, “What’s it supposed to be?”
Emily smiled. “It’s not supposed to be anything—it already is.”
She pointed to the dark shapes and one bright space she’d left untouched.
“It’s a tree, but it’s also pain,” she said softly. “Because the tree God made was turned into a cross.”
We just stared.
At six years old, she was seeing things we couldn’t.
She wasn’t inventing beauty—she was discovering it.
Discovering What’s Already There
Poet Robert Frost once said, “I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
That’s how God has designed our life: not as invention, but discovery.
We don’t create truth; we uncover it.
We don’t make beauty; we notice it.
We don’t manufacture love; we receive it.
Every artist, musician, and dreamer is simply uncovering what the Creator already placed in the fabric of the world—and in the human heart.
God is the Creator; we’re the discoverers.
When we slow down long enough to look—really look—we start finding Him everywhere: in faces, in laughter, in sorrow, in sunlight, in silence.
Eyes to See the Wonder
What if wonder isn’t something we have to chase, but something waiting to be recognized?
The Spirit’s whisper is constant: “Look again.”
Look again at that person you’ve written off.
Look again at your life—it’s not random.
Look again at creation—it’s declaring glory.
God has already filled the world with evidence of His love.
Our role is simply to notice it—and to join Him in the joy of discovery.
Reflection
Where have you stopped noticing the beauty God already placed around you?
What might change if you began to see each person as a part of His masterpiece?
How could wonder become a daily rhythm instead of a rare surprise?
Prayer