God gave us the minds, hearts, and souls to experience and learn from both his word and his nature. It’s good to learn about God in church (through worship, fellowship, and study) and while engaging in service and striving to walk in his ways. It’s also good to explore beyond human-built walls, within the miracleContinue reading “Learning about God, not only in his church but also in his nature”
Category Archives: God’s nature
Face-to-face with God . . . in his nature
In the quiet of nature, we find ourselves face-to-face with God’s love of life and variety of life, his cycles of life and death and life again, the immensity of his time and space, and with the wonders and wisdom by which he created the universe. At the seashore, on a mountaintop, in a forest,Continue reading “Face-to-face with God . . . in his nature”
Messy in nature
It’s messy sometimes–writing while in nature. I’ve sand on my shorts and sand on the bike bag that I’m using as a writing surface. Rain drizzle smears the lines on wide-ruled notebook paper as my blue pen attempts to scribble this morning’s thoughts. Words don’t appear on the wet paper, so I skip a fewContinue reading “Messy in nature”
Blessed and Cursed: Our Power over Nature
Earth brims with life. God obviously likes life and variety of life, since he put it in everywhere. Upon this blue-green jewel he put us, too, and he chose to impart some of him into us so that we may witness the wonder of his being and of his creation. But with that spark ofContinue reading “Blessed and Cursed: Our Power over Nature”
God’s Natural Wisdom
God, in his wisdom and through the millennia, has evolved and woven together a rich web of creatures and plants that sustains and propagates life and the variety of life that he obviously loves—because he made so much of it. We’re blessed to be able to explore, understand, appreciate, and care for (when we riseContinue reading “God’s Natural Wisdom”
