This is a time of year when spring is trying hard to come in. We have hours of sunshine, hours of rain, hours of gray.
The gray descends all around us, in the bare tree trunks and fields of dead hay. There is definitely a pallet, all beige and dull, of varied blandness.
The zephyrs and chinooks are tantalizing and more often.
Warm breezes.
The fowl of the air have returned. I see pairing swans on every body of water. The sandhill cranes announced their return, pterydactyl-like, and quietly hid in the swamps south of the house to nest. They spent at least three days making sure everything was up to snuff.
Canada Geese are honking overhead. At least one pair is nesting in the aforementioned swamp.
This morning I spied the Wood Duck pair in the familiar trees out front. We see them every year. My husband felled the massive basswood tree that the ducks used for many years. It was completely rotten at its core, and a perfect home for this species.
I wonder what this pair is thinking.
Loss?
They found another home last year, apparently, so I trust they will do so again this spring. It is kind of like how I drive by 901 East Ninth Street every time I visit the town we lived in. I like to see how the house changes over the years and remember the special features I enjoyed.
Aside from that the robins are back, fighting and swirling in turf battles.
God loves beauty. He makes so much of His creation beautiful, people at the forefront.
People are just so beautiful! Even in our fallen state there is this color to skin, sparkle to eyes, bearing, and presence that we can admire and praise God for.
I look at my children and I just marvel at God’s goodness.
God loves beauty.
As a believer I am always convicted about idolatry. I think that Christians are some of the worst offenders of this, but as I have observed fandoms for celebrities over the past few years I see a glorification of beauty, worship of the created, everywhere.
We always need to keep our worship in check. God alone deserves adoration.
It’s easy to glorify an author, speaker, preacher, teacher, musician, model, actor or actress. They are set up as examples for us to follow, learn from, or emulate. No one is immune from this. Those that think they are are probably worshiping themselves. And God created us to love beauty and be attracted to it.
God loves us, undeserving as we all are. He made ALL of us. He planned the influencers and the influenced. He planned our days and our circles of relationship. He made the beauty that we see all around us, that we can enjoy His marvelous creativity and ability.
Give the glory to God! As His creation springs back to life for summer, I see the beauty. The birds are just the first wave of life returning for the year’s season of growth. Look into the eyes of the person you see today and give God the glory for the beauty He made.
Imagine the beauty that awaits us in Christ’s presence!
MARANATHA!