An Amazing Creator We Have!

A few years ago I heard about an exhibit on plastination. I was intriqued and so I took my friend Cindy to LA and saw it. If you haven't heard of it; they take donated bodies, take the skin off their bodies, put them in different postitions (example; kicking a ball, riding a horse, or just standing), and make their muscles plastic. It really is an amazing thing to see into our bodies.

They also seperate artery and veins, fill them with coloring, and present them in their original state. So, you can see just the veins of the heart or the entire body. They also show healthy organs and unhealthy organs. One area has a box where people can drop their cigarette boxes. This box is stratigically placed between a healthy lung and a cancerous lung. They have stages of babies from weeks to months, babies that didn't make it becasuse of spina bifida and other conditions, and you may have heard of the mother with a baby inside of her. It is not easy to look at, but fasinating at the same time.

"I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Marvelous are Your works,

And that my soul knows very well." Psalm 139:14

I write this not to blog something I did three years ago, but I recently went to a show in San Diego with my trainer, Cheryl. This show was no where near as large as the first one I went to in LA, but the exhibition has grown in popularity and they have spread the specimens across the world. But still, just as facinating to be reminded of how amazing is the Creator of our bodies. The capabilities of our bodies and what damage we can do. I have not only seen a cancerous lung, but what an obese body looks like on the inside. The weight I have put on my heart and the unecessary celulite that I carry around. So much honor is due our Creator and heavenly Father for He has given us these amazing vessels to move about and carry out His plan for our individual lives, to His glory. May we no longer fall to those things that hinder His desires for us.

"Or do you not know your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's." 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

I did not go to Saint Louis, I was just trying to get the picture. I went to an exhibition at Universtiy Town Center in San Diego.