A little girl on a mountain peak shouts out with joy:
“Thank you God for the beauty and wonder of your creation!”
Another day has just broken and she proclaims:
“Thank you God for another wonderful day!”
Spring is about to burst forth and she enthuses:
“Welcome Spring and let us sing praise to God!”
Man is the peak and acme of creation.
He alone can see the beauty and wonder of it all.
The bright shining sun. The tender glow of the moon. The marvelously twinkling stars.
The refreshing green of trees. The calming blue of the oceans. The vibrant colors covering the land.
But often man thrashes this paradise given to him and drives himself out of his own Eden.
He poisons the air and the soil and the waters and other livings things simply die away.
He builds indiscriminately anywhere and the flowers die and man has no more time and no more roses to smell.
Why can’t we see that it took billions of years for the sun, the moon and the stars
to be in their proper places so that the earth can be put in place?
Why don’t we realize it took a few more million years for the earth to be green,
the sea to be blue and the land to explode in glorious colors
before man can come to the scene?
Why can’t we appreciate that all of this need to come to pass for man
to see the glory of a loving creator, to sing His praise,
and to live his life in gratitude to love given unconditionally?
“We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience.” -John Dewey
The little girl on the mountain, the new daybreak, spring returning.
I reflect and I realize, God is speaking to me.
The shining white light of the sun, the moon and the stars.
I reflect and I realize, God is calling me.
The green earth, the blue skies, the radiant colors of the land.
I reflect and I realize, God is transforming me.
I go up my mountain, I reflect and all around becomes transfigured.
I realize the world and my whole life are ablaze with the grandeur of God!
Of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.
Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother,
and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them;
his face shone like the sun
and his clothes became white as light.
Behold, a bright cloud cast a shadow over them,
then from the cloud came a voice that said,
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
Matthew 17:1-9