I love this time of year!
I recently went on a short trip to Arizona. As it was at the end of April, I knew one of the things I had to accomplish before I left, was to clean, fill, and hang my hummingbird feeders. You see I would not be home on May 1st and that is when the hummingbirds return. From the beginning God set an eternal time clock in each one of his creations, to be at a certain place, at a certain time. The migration of each and every animal is unique to its own species. It’s part of the majesty and the wonder that God created on this earth.
The beauty of God’s creation is something nobles and kings have tried to capture for themselves. Hardly a palace can be found without strutting peacocks on its ground. And how many times have you read were king or an Emperor will have caged a Nightingale, because it is jealous of its song? Through time man has taken the natural beauty of the jewels found in the earth and polished them, and cut them, and tried to make them more beautiful. But no one can outdo the original craftsman. Since man cannot harness a rainbow, he had to make do with prisms of glass that will cast the beautiful colors onto a surface. Of course only God can cast those beautiful colors into the sky.
How often does a clear night sky leave you breathless as you gaze on all the heavenly bodies you can see with your naked eye? Or sunrise or sunset that is beyond description, do you yearn to put down on canvas.
I happen to have an affinity for hummingbirds. The fact that God has made them so unique, they are the only living thing that can fly backwards. There are over 300 varieties of hummingbirds, the average size is from 3 to 7 inches. The smallest of the hummingbirds is only 2 inches and weighs less than .07 ounces. I sit on my front porch and watch the hummingbirds and I am engulfed in the feeling of God’s love. I love to watch the hummingbirds flit from flower to flower, another of God’s wondrous creations.
As parents we need to teach our children about the wonders of God’s creations. Instead of running helter-skelter to baseball games, dance classes, or roller rinks, how about a nice nature walk. No time you say? Then sit on your back or front porch for 5 to 10 minutes at night and see what crosses your path. It may be a bunny running across your lawn, or bumblebee that is not aerodynamically made to fly, yet God made sure that it could, just to keep us mystified. Pick a flower and investigate all the integral parts of it, and it will amaze both you and your child about what God has created for us in this world.
We as authors are somehow getting caught up in the political correctness of the times. We are afraid of being alienated from the popular crowd by mentioning creation, God, or heaven and hell. All the great authors in literature have stood apart from the crowd and not melded in with it. That’s part of what made them great, it’s the part that can make us great also. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Psalms 8:3
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Psalms 19:1
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Psalms 50:2
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
This is the LORD’S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
Psalms 118:23
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Luke 12:27