Tag: Creation

Some Think…

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Some think,
“Um, pine trees?”
Yep, they are pine trees.
Some think,
“Wow, tall.”
For sure, they are tall
Some think,
“Magnificent.”
Magnificent. No doubt.
And some think,
“Cathedral.”
A place for worship.
Indeed, a cathedral to worship 
the Creator of magnificent, tall pine trees

Psalm 100

A psalm. For giving grateful praise.

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.  
Worship the Lord with gladness;
    come before him with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God.
    It is he who made us, and we are his;
    we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving
    and his courts with praise;
    give thanks to him and praise his name.
For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
    his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Today’s Gift

Every Square Inch (iii) – Today’s Mystery

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*I was weeding the flowerbeds the other day. I took along my camera. Here’s a ‘square inch’ of God’s creation that I found.

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One day I spied … a creature
Exploring a rocky corner
Not one day 
Not two days 
But many days of exploring 
… Searching for what?
Searching the rocks for
A bite to eat?
A place to live?
A mate?
… All the while darting all around? How?
This creature has wings
Four wings
Amber wings
Four, big Amber wings
… What about the rest of it?
This creature’s body
Has three sections - head, thorax, abdomen
It’s two inches long, black, yellow, red
With one wicked looking stinger
… Anything else?
Only the female
Lays eggs
Digs the burrow
Has a stinger to paralyze prey
… Prey, what prey? Pray tell?
Ah, the prey! 
Here’s where we get the clue
It will help us name this very interesting insect
This large, flying wasp of a creature
In search of a 
… cicada …
To nourish newly hatched eggs
Its name? 
Cicada Killer
Doing what it was created to do
Today’s gift

Every Square Inch (ii) – Necessities

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*I was out weeding the flowers the other day. I took along my camera. Here are some ‘square inches’ of God’s creation that I found.

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Food (i)

We see leafy, green
We wonder what’s within
We have food for thought
Food (ii)
Carbon dioxide
Water, chlorophyll, sunlight
Photosynthesis
Food (iii)
Table of Plenty
Photosynthesis provides
Food for all
Take a Breath
Green, leafy gateway
C - Oh - two IN, Oh - two OUT
Needed breath of life
Water
Suspended, sparkling
Jewels dancing, delighting
Watering the earth

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Every Square Inch (i)

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I thought it might be a good idea to include a note about the “square inch” tag that I’ve put on some of my posts.

The phrase comes from a longer quote by Abraham Kuyper, a Dutch theologian. He said, “There is not a square inch in the whole’ domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”

Much has been written about the richness of Kuyper’s intended meaning in that quote. Certainly, its meaning goes far beyond the simple ideas I present in my posts. There’s more to ‘… the whole domain of our human existence…’  than spiders, flowers and other things in my backyard.

I use the ‘every square inch’ tag because I believe that ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” and that “the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it,” (every square inch of it) So, I do my best in my posts to reflect the beauty, wonder, and delight evident in God’s awesome Creation.

Sometimes it’s the little things that make us sit up and take notice, that delight us, that make us smile or even laugh. Sometimes it’s the little things, along with the big ones that make us wonder – what, why, how, who? Sometimes, if we’re paying attention, those things will even point us to the Creator himself.

I don’t think Kuyper had spiders on his mind when talking about square inches. But I think he would agree that for even the smallest, the most ordinary, the least, Christ cries out, “Mine!”