Take It All In!

The weather has been so perfect lately that I just want to jump for joy! The sky is just so gorgeous today. I've got my window open to let in the breeze. A lot of times I know we all just get so busy in this thing called life, and it's so easy to get caught up in the daily blah of things. But instead of being so sucked into our errands, events, and everything else of little importance, we need to slow down and take a look. Take a look at the wonderfulness of this earth. It's so beautiful! Take it all in: the blue skies, white puffy clouds, the birds singing sweetly in the treetops, the crickets in the darkness of night and the flickering flashes of lightning bugs fluttering around. God has given us so many lovely things in nature for a purpose -- that we may enjoy them! I learned years ago that the cicada that we hear buzzing in the heat of summer is actually 17 years old when it finally comes out of the ground. I haven't looked at or heard them in the same way since. It's amazing what care God gives to His creatures, even the smallest ones! Did you know that the hummingbird's wings can flap about 60 times in one second? And it can fly across the Gulf of Mexico without stopping on the way. The woodpecker, the earthworm, Goliath beetle, and many, many others are just a small portion of proof that there is an Intelligent Designer! Let's take all this beautiful nature and changes of seasons in. What a wonderful world we live in! "...Stand still and consider the wondrous works of God." Job 37:14