When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and majesty! You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!---Psalm 8:3-9

      Sitting close, with his hands resting in hers, Mina would "tap out" conversations, questions and dialogue on Thomas' palms; opening up a world heretofore closed to him. Mina had learned Morse Code to be able to do this for him. One day Edison tapped out a proposal, and Mina said "yes."

      Thomas Alva Edison opened the world of music to millions when he invented the phonograph, but his near-deaf state sentenced him to catching only traces of the joy music unfolds in the human soul. In fact, he could often be found biting into a piano or phonograph, even when surrounded by prominent guests and important investors. Biting allowed the vibrations to reach his inner ear, making it possible for him to "hear. Imagine the hunger behind his willingness to dent his dignity so. Imagine, then what Mina's gift of tapping must have meant.

      The man with more patents (1,093) than anyone in history certainly captured the creative side of humanity. But it was Mina who lifted her humanity past creativity and innovation, past productivity and utility, to the majesty of the Creator's intent.

      When Mina learned Morse Code, she used the key that unlocks the best in us and turns human beings from the ordinary to the extraordinary view described in Psalm 8: Love.

      All of Thomas's wonderful inventions pale in comparison.

      Scripture tells us boldly that as humans we are made in the image of God. At work, we reflect the Creator in many ways; He was a Worker, an Artist, an Architect of the highest order. When we labor, we echo that part of Him with our actions. When we labor in earnest, with integrity and competence, it honors Him. It displeases and dishonors Him when we've given less.

      But it's the ways we find to express love as we do those things that lifts us closest to the level God intended when He made us.

      Our creativity honors God. Our menial labor and our strokes of genius honor Him, too. But when we mix those things with love, then like Mina did for Thomas, we "tap out" the heart of God into the hands, heads and hearts of those who work alongside us.

      And it's then that others discover just how much we're made in His image.

Made To Matter: Devotions for Working Christians, © 2008 by Randy Kilgore. Used by permission of Discovery House Publishers, Box 3566, Grand Rapids MI 4950l. All rights reserved. You may also find this book on Itunes by clicking here.

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