The beauty of God’s creation

And that reminds us of something else about all that God has made: how beautiful it is.  When the early settlers in the United States first saw the beauty and grandeur of the great, rolling prairies, such as you see in Western films, they called it ‘God’s own country’.  And besides the beautiful scenery in Nature, there are also many beautiful things.  There are plenty of them in gardens and in the woods and fields of the countryside, and in city parks.  For you can find flowers almost anywhere – growing wild on railway embankments and the edges of motorways, clinging to stone walls and making cliff tops bright with colour.

And then there are beautiful butterflies with their lovely coloured wings, and birds like the robin and greenfinch and blackbird that come to our bird tables.  God made all these lovely things and he has given us colour vision to see them with.  He knows that we love colours and beautiful things and just as we wrap up Christmas presents in coloured paper to give to people as an expression of our love, so we can think of all the beautiful, coloured things in Nature as presents from God which show how much he cares for us.