God's Splendor in Nature

We visited the Great Smoky Mountains last weekend at the peak of the fall season.  It rained off and on and the colors were brilliant in contrast.  The dark tree trunks and the multicolored leaves shone with a luster that could not be captured by a photograph, although we tried!  The  old river road with the mountain streams meandering from one side to the other and around every curve a picture that only the Lord himself could paint.  Cars lined the avenue and there were few places to pull off for a photo opportunity, so I prayed for vivid memories of the beauty.  Absolutely breath taking is the only way I can describe the view.  Now,  only three days later we see  the same area sparkling with snow.  No human hand could produce this sudden change and sight and it brings comfort somehow contrasted with the devastation  and loss of life from hurricane "Sandy".  God holds our destiny and we must embrace the mystery of what we experience, good and bad.

Isaiah 55:8-11 NKJ
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.  For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return  to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it."

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