I love the sense that God breathes his life into me, and all the living, moving things around me! I love that his artistic fingerprint exists in it all! There is a rich vibrance in everything I see this way!! And that is how I've learned to see him!!
The stories I find in the Bible, and the teachings there, set up the outline of who he is - his intentions and nature. Give us the blueprint of what life was meant to be here, and how to get back to it. But it's amongst the living things that I really sense him!!
I've thought, before, about the purpose of the inanimate things he created, in contrast to those filled with his life!! They have seemed so at odds with who he is!! And my curious mind has searched out a few answers 😄.
They are a backdrop, a foundation, a home for the establishment and flourishing of all those living things he's made. A secret place for wonderful treasures he's hidden there for us to find!! A source of all the elements needed, for those living things to grow!! And perhaps they represent God in their ways too! The solid foundation, source of all our needs, a hiding place of beautiful treasures to be found. If we search.
I am grateful to the youth leader, many years ago, who gave us an exercise to find something in nature around us that reminded us of God or one of his stories. It set me up to find God there for the rest of my life. I'm sure they never knew the gift they'd given me. It's been a source of rich contemplation and connection. What beauty exists here....
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