The sun has just peeked out today, and given us a beautiful fall landscape: all of it the work of God’s hands.
Evil news abounds. There’ll be plenty of it tomorrow. But here and now, let us enjoy God’s protection and praise Him for His work.
For the Beauty of the Earth, sung by Michelle Swift… old Sunday school favorite.
Here’s a good old Sunday school favorite, requested by Thewhiterabbit–For the Beauty of the Earth, sung here by Michelle Swift.
I have a doctor’s appointment this morning, so I’m up early to get this day’s blog started.
Our new dead-nettles
Overnight, a host of brilliant yellow dandelions have bloomed all over our lawn, punctuated by a crop of brilliant purple dead-nettles. The squirrels have not eaten our tulips, so we have a dash of bright red, too. Is it any wonder that most people love the spring.
And then the bells of St. Francis, across the street, chimed in with For the Beauty of the Earth.
The flowers tell us: God is nigh.
You can’t ask for people’s favorite hymns and not get requests for this one–For the Beauty of the Earth, a 19th-century classic. This rendition is by Michelle Swift.
We love the work of God’s hands, because it tells us who He is. Hence this beloved 19th century hymn, For the Beauty of the Earth. Sung by Michelle Swift.
This hymn came back to me yesterday evening, as I looked at green leaves waving against a sapphire sky: For the Beauty of the Earth, sung by Michelle Swift.
And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. (Genesis 1:31)
Yes, I know I’ve posted this before–but it’s still beautiful, right? For the Beauty of the Earth, a classic hymn from 1864, sung by Michelle Swift.
It’s the very beauty of God’s created earth that speaks to us, if we but listen, and assures us, “God is nigh.”
I’m done writing about politics for the day. It’s a dirty business. How about another hymn instead?
For the Beauty of the Earth, sung by Michelle Swift. Background scenery by God the Father.
You wonder why I prefer to do my novel-writing outdoors?
Looking out my bedroom window this morning, with the birds calling, with the trees coming into leaf, and an April shower gently falling, I felt like I really had to have this hymn today: For the Beauty of the Earth.
I chose this video, from “Children’s Scripture Memory Hymns,” for the photos, many of which bring me back to beautiful, real places that I’ve known, most of them now all paved over and destroyed, but preserved, I pray, in the Kingdom of God who created them and loved their beauty in the first place.
With the ugliness of our current political season approaching a point beyond belief, now turn we unto God’s stuff: For the Beauty of the Earth, sung by Heather Prusse, packed with photos of God’s created beauty–preserved by Him, despite the fallen status of this world. The beauty is there for a reason: to testify that God is nigh.