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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

God Among Us ~Kevin

One of the things Gareth and I share a passion for is nature. I believe he mentioned earlier his feeling towards nature as a connection between us and god. I couldn't agree more with him. There is something magical about stepping outside on an ordinary summer day, gazing at the clear blue sky and breathing in the sweet clean air...
Smelling a buttercup in a field of thousands, it boggles my mind that each buttercup in that field has a smell... And each field in the world has a thousand more flowers with a thousand more smells. It's times like these when it's hard not to have faith.

One of my favorite things to do, is stargazing. One Christmas I was given a beautiful telescope with a high class electronics system that will take you on a tour of the constellations. Looking into the telescope and seeing a universe of stars is truly a humbling experience. In one very philosophical conversation with my younger brother, I told him "Each star is just a pimple on the Universe's face." We laughed and laughed... When I can have a bonding experience while enjoying the beauty that is the world, I know that something special is happening.

Here is my favorite sunset picture from my recent vacation to Victoria. Watching this sunset from Gabriola Island gave me one of those surreal feelings, when you can't help but believe. The beauty is in the clouds, but I like that you can see a mast silhouetted against the sky.

posted by Unknown at 2:56 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger Summer said...

Ok, first off, to clarify, I'm Erin...

Freshly mown grass...
The smell right after it rains...
When I was a kid, these were two of the things that meant "Spring" to me and that meant Summer was coming and life would be different in some small way, yet again... Caterpillars eating the leaves and later turning into butterflies (or "flutterbyes" as my little cousin would say) and watchinmg all of the trees and grass turn green and the flowers begin to bloom with a riot of colour and scent all at once... It wafts on the breeze....

I love to stargaze! I took a course in astronomy once, hoping it would help me make sense of the vastness of the universe. If anything, it just made me realize how big God actually is and how small we seem by comparison to a lot of those things that are floating out there... (Random aside: I was handed a piece today which dicusses the moon of Jupiter and it's moons... I knew more about them than I thought!) It's amazing to think that God placed all of those stars in the sky for a reason and that the pattern is there for a purpose... It boggles my mind actually!

Kevin, that's a gorgeous picture, at some point remind me and I'll show you one from the dock at camp last summer... It's pictures like those that just take your breath away and I'm not sure about anyone else but I stand in awe of Him when I see things like that. The beauty that nature contains is amazing!

This is an awesome idea for a blog and I'm pretty sure that I don't count as "youth" per se... So I probably won't e-mail you about posting on here but keep up the awesome work and I may comment from time to time if that's ok...?

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