Kien Lam understands big and small. 

For one year, over 17 countries, he photographed his travel adventures, creating time lapse video of the 6,000 pictures he brought home. To watch it is to experience the incongruity of big and small, to see the breadth of the globe and the tiny human stories within it. It is a montage of God’s vast, breathtaking creation mixed with the microcosms of human life. 

I love Lam’s vision. For some reason, the juxtaposition of big and small reminds me of the world God has given to me. On some days God asks me to meditate on his cosmos, and on other days he wants me mop the church floor at some extraordinarily precise coordinates in Clovis, California. I have no doubt God asks me to think big and small.