I love nature. I just like everything about it. The trees and fields, the rivers and streams. All of the animals, bugs, butterflies. Farm animals. Pets.
Clouds. How the breezes interact with the leaves—different sounds and experiences if the leaves are green or if they’re brown and crinkly!
I love the ponds and lakes. Herons and geese. Ducks and lions. Egrets and Sandhill Cranes and Whooping Cranes.
I was listening to a debate the other night on YouTube. Professor John Lennox and Dr. David Dawkins. One man traces everyone and everything back to a creative God who made the endless variety of all we can see and experience—from the very building blocks of life (atoms, molecules, breath). The other thinks that through the passing of millions or billions of years all that we know “happened” or developed/evolved into existence.
I’m not much of a scientist (although I like bugs! Maybe I could have been an entomologist, but why not just build a worm farm in my compost barrel??). Probably even less of a mathematician.
But I know my heart hurt for the professor as he talked about a world without a Creator. As he wrote off the Savior and Lord of Life and hope that has been my friend all my life. I just thought, “This is so sad that he doesn’t know the truth about God. That his human reason and ‘enlightenment’ have caused him to write off God.
I see God everywhere. I marvel at the intelligent design. I hope to see Him one day—Face-to-face. His Word (written and living in the life of Jesus Christ, The Word made flesh, God With Us).
If my pictures help someone else see the God of Creation, that makes my heart happy.
Thoughts From the Garden 