The really meaningful times in our lives come when we realize how very small - yet cared for and important - we are. As our narrative unfolds today and as his vision emerges for him, Isaiah, the aristrocrat - the prophet - cries out, "Woe is me!" He is stirred to the depths by the experience of the awesome, insurmountable distance between eternal God, the Creator, and the human being, a weak and vulnerable sinner.

I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips ... for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts! - 6:5

In the New Testament story of the great catch of fish - when the fish fill the nets so they begin to break and the boat begins to sink - Peter falls down at Jesus’ feet and cries, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord" (Luke 5:8). And the experience of Gideon is the s…