"I wish to render what is, what I feel," stated the artist Claude Monet, the French impressionist painter perhaps best known for his depictions of haystacks in the Normandy countryside.  Perhaps without intending to, with these words Monet expounds a crucial truth about the way that we view and see the world.  Do not we go through life wishing to render, that is, compose and construct and express our experiences, those things we confront, face, stumble into, and enjoy each day, those things that spark passion, feeling, and wonder in us?  We live to experience, and we live to express those experiences, be it in writing, speech, music, or almost anything else.  We live to explore and explicate the content of our lives and the world in which we live them.
     What does this say about us?  What does this say about the world?  It says that we and the world have meaning and, if we are honest, we believe that we have meaning.  Why else would we wish to render it?
     Let's enlarge the picture.  Think about God as one who renders, as one who renders and constructs what is, as one who renders, as an expresssion of his loving creativity, all that exists, including you, me, and all in which we find life, breath, and meaning.
     Think about the world as what is and what, given the love of God, could only be.  Think about yourselves and this remarkable world and ask this:  what else would a loving and living God render?