Nature, the touch of God’s hand in His creation.
Moves me. Touches me. Soothes and rouses me.
Brings me tears and silences me in awe. Heals me.
Something as small as a sunset reflected in a
rain drop, something as massive as a storm.
Wee little bee darting bloom to bloom.
River carving it’s way to the sea.
There is a touch there.
A plan. In the places
where I feel the ground
most holy are those where
God speaks through the wind and animals.
Where flowers struggle to bloom, and burst forth.
Exuberance embraces to soul when birds soar where we
can never really and truly go. Lifting wings and crying out from it.
Nature soothes my soul when there is too much paved over. Too much built.
Too many machines, wires, poles and buildings. Too many people crowded around.
Nature releases me when I stop to breathe. To hear baby magpies complaining.
When I see birds hopping on hedge tops or dancing in puddles fresh from the rain.
Apples fallen before they ripen, feeding the tree from below. The circle of life, the cycle.
It is part of us. Lay on the earth, feel your pulse in the soil. Hear it in the wind.
Clouds soar above, weightless seemingly, and yet full of many millions of gallons of water.
Life given from both storm and calm. Sunshine and rain. Met, sometimes, in violence.
dVerse has us thinking about nature. Nature is something near and dear to me.
As a farm wife, photographer and lover of all things created I find both healing and balance in the nature around me. From the aftermath of a storm to the reflection of sunsets in the rain barrel. Animals playing, hunting, living. Plants growing and dying. Being no more, and no less, than intended. Being fully. Isn’t that what we all should be doing? Working on the being and not the doing?
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