Written 15th February 2020 I’ve been thinking about giants lately. You see, it really depends on your perspective, doesn’t it? When you think about it, to a baby I’m a giant - because a baby is only so big, and I, in comparison, am giant! A baby fits in your arms, especially when it’s newborn. To you, I wouldn’t be so much of a giant. I am probably only a little bit bigger than you. Or I might be about the same size. Or I could be smaller than you. I’m probably just ‘normal’ size compared to you. There are some people which we talk about as being giant. In reality they’re just human though. Not giant. Not really. Just human. Normal as you might say. Then again, what is normal? Like Morticia Addams says, “what’s normal to a spider is chaos to a fly”. I’ve been thinking about dwarves too. To a giant, a proper one like you would find in a story book, I would be a dwarf. A giant would see me as tiny - it could just pick me up. I would fit in its arms. To me, a baby is a dwarf, technically, because it fits in my arms, and I could just pick it up. So really, what is a giant or a dwarf? Really, I am a giant and a dwarf. What about you? Are you a giant? Are you a dwarf? Is it possible for you to know? Really, as far as I know, a giant is just a big thing. Like the Empire State building - that's a giant. But a cottage, compared to the Empire State building, that's just a dwarf. Or a flat, that’s just a dwarf. Then, compared to a person, a cottage is more often than not a giant. Even in comparison to a two story house, a flat is a dwarf. But that's just my perception, really. Like the fact that to me I am me, but to you, you're me. A confusing thought I know. And is the way that I see myself the same way that other people see me? To me, I'm normal size, but to a giant, being giant is normal size, and to a dwarf, being a dwarf is normal size, and it's everything else that’s a bit out of sorts. So how do I know that the way that I see me is the same way that you see me? Or that the way I see you is the same way that you see you? Or how do I know that the way that the way that God sees me is the same way that I see me? Or the way that God sees you is the same way that you see you? Or the way that God sees you or me is the same way that we see each other? Maybe God sees me in one way, I see me in another way, and you see me in a different way again. Because, to me, God is a giant. To God, surely I am just a dwarf. Maybe, though, because God is all around us and inside us, maybe we're not dwarves to God. Maybe we are normal. Maybe God considers himself to be just like us. It is said that God makes us in his image, and we grow into the image of God. But then, how can both of those things be true? How can we be made in God's image, as well as growing into the image of God. How do we know that the way that we see God is truly the way that God is? How do I know that the way that I see myself is the way that I am. If I am born - created - by God through the way that he sees me, and yet I still then grow to be like God, how do I know that anything that I do is right. How do I know? I pray. And if I pray and believe that there is something right in what I am doing, and I pray that God will show me the right thing to do, then how can I go wrong. If I pray when I do the wrong thing, if I pray that I will do the right thing, I can keep on top of when I go a bit awry. I can keep on top of everything that’s happening and come back every time that I get lost. Every time that I see myself as a giant and not just… me. Because everyone sees everyone differently. No one sees the full picture from where they are. Except God. Only God sees the full picture. We are just left to pray, hope that we find the right path. Only God knows what that right path is. When Jesus taught, a lot of the time he told stories. He never gave a straight answer. When he told the parable of the Talents, he showed that we should do what we can with what we have, not hide it away from everything. A lot of the time we are like the servants who made more from what they were given, but sometimes we are like the servant who did nothing with his Talent. Sometimes we worry that what we have been given is not good enough to share. Sometimes we worry that if we share what we have been given, it will be taken from us. But when this happens, we just need to look at those around us and see that they are sharing what they have been given. Whichever side of this divide we are on, we should remember to act with what we are given, whether by showing others what they should do to encourage them or by taking note of those around us and realising we need to be like them - to fully trust that we have been given what we need and what God sees in us rather than fearing and worrying and seeing ourselves through human eyes. Learn to have faith no matter whether you are a giant in your eyes, a dwarf, or just normal… whatever that really is.