Friday, November 18, 2011

Friday's Devotion: Signs and Wonders

Psalm 8  LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. . . .  When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?  You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

When I dressed to walk yesterday morning it was warm in the house and bright outside so I wore a short sleeved tee under my running suit.  It was actually cooler than I anticipated when I got outside.  The first thing I saw was a completely black woolly bear caterpillar in the carport.  According to folklore, the smaller the reddish brown band around the middle of the woolly bear, the harsher the winter.  Oh, well!  I thought about the signs of the times as I walked. On my way home I spotted a man taking down Halloween decorations. He was wearing only denim shorts. He had no shirt, no socks, no shoes, and no sense in my book.

Last week someone sent me a link to a power point presentation.  It started by showing a picture of a tree with a close up of one leaf such as we would see if we were standing beside the tree.  The power point then zoomed out by powers of 10 using animation until our galaxy was only a small point in the vast universe.  It then reversed direction, eventually zooming into the interior of the leaf and going into subatomic space.  Yesterday I thought a lot about the vastness of our universe, the many different things and people in this world and what I place might be.  It’s easy to cocoon in our own created little environment and forget that we are smaller than a speck of dust in the grander scheme of things.  I’m going to try to spend more time looking around and wondering at the marvel of our existence.

Thank you Lord for all you have created and for placing us in your kingdom.  Guide and bless us as we care for one another and for your creation.  Amen.

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