Just a reminder (to myself)…
Trees and bushes grow. Water rushes down creeks, turning rocks round. Beetles and ants crawl through the dirt. All this with or without my notice. This weekend I spent time in the great outdoors. I noticed. I was reminded that all this twirling land does just fine without my notice. When I did notice, I felt very unimportant. I was not responsible for any of it.
At night my constellations stood brightly in a sky that I don’t often notice. When I did notice, the vast space above my head begged the question, “If you do not notice this fierce wide sky, what do you spend your days & nights looking at?”
There is time to notice. I lifted my eyes to the twirling world and to the yawing space above every horizon. Oh yeah (for the thousanth time), that’s right. God is huge. He doesn’t need my help: he’s got the natural order covered. I’m reminded of what a good job he does with his creation.
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it” Psalm 24:1
“Our help is in the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” Psalm 124:8
“Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds. Praise be to his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen.” Psalm 72:18-19
Great post, Stephanie! Welcome back to the Grace blogosphere!
Yeah, lately I’ve found myself looking around and thinking “Wow, how much fun God must have had making all this!” And “even though we live in a fallen world, it’s still so beautiful. What was it like before?”
Noticing is something we should all be doing every day! Because “the Lord God made it all.”
Wow, enjoyed the read Stephanie. I loved that part about the fierce wide sky…sometimes getting lost in the vastness of space is what we need to find that tiny little door of grace that God opens in our hearts. How can He be so big and so intimate all at once?