A friend and I went out to a local garden, the sort you pay to enter with multiple cafes and plants of all kinds from around the world. There were so many colours, even on a gray cloudy day in a cold snap. There were plants of every colour, some big and some small, some standing proud and some hidden among leaves. You could walk around a smell their fragrance, and feel the humidity and see how each plant had adapted to its environment.
As I walked I was again struck by how varied the world is. I was seeing a small selection of plants in one small snippet of the year and there were more varieties than I could count. God’s creation is so much wider than I can possibly grasp, so much variety that we could never see it all. It makes me stop and wonder again at the God who made me, who continued to create until he had made mankind. All of these wonderful, colourful, beautiful elements were a small segment of the world. The same care taken in making the delicate petals with appealing scents and the towering trunks that offer shade also went in to making you and me.
Take a moment. You don’t have to go to a special gardens, although there is a lot of variety. You could just look out the window. Stop and take it in. Look around at the creation. And remember you are a part of it.
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