Made by God

I HAVE married someone so wonderfully talented. This is one of her works:

“When I think of ‘made by God’, I first think of ‘God made the whole world and everything in it’ as in Genesis 1. But then I take just a moment longer and think of the tiny flowers on a bush, each petal shaped and coloured by God; the different shades of pink, purple, orange and red in the clouds as the sun sets on a cold winters afternoon; the soft lighting in a cave delicately colouring the slowly forming shapes of a world beneath the earth’s surface; the many shades of yellow of a golden summer sunset; the bright dashes of yellow on little birds flitting around in the warm spring air">spring air; the stillness of a cold, lightly misty winters morning, with a river so still, the reflection could be mistaken for the real thing; the bright blues and many shades of orange of new coral growth below the surface of the ocean; and the many different people with such a variety of different shades of appearances and personalities that no two people are the same—they are totally unique.

And that’s just the start of what God has made. Consider also the dark dusty reds of the desert; the luscious green of the paddocks in winter that turns to a crunchy golden brown in summer; the carpets of flowers in the warm spring air; the wonder of a new born">new born child, and a child laughing at the simplest of things like touching a parents face.

The things that look so simply beautiful, are also amazingly complex and interesting. The simple beauty is supported by some pretty amazing biology and ecology that humans have been able to understand so much about, and yet still have so much more to discover and understand. How amazing is this world that was made by God?”