Have you ever gone outside and thought to yourself: "God is so great"? Just thought, really thought, about how great He is? From Tulips to carnations, two completely different flowers, you can discover God's handiwork in everything you see, hear, touch, or smell. A Tulip to us seems a pretty simple flower at first glance. But then look at it closely, the pollen made for just one specific task, pollinating the flower. Every part of the leaves and stem made to collect and make food. The petals perfectly lined up. But even that isn't enough for our heavenly creator! Look at the color, every shade of red or pink or yellow you can think of! The stem is just plain lime green from far away, but close up, now that's a different story. A base of light green, but then there's some brown, dark forest green, and even a light shade of blue/teal. Explaining everything you see would probably take at least an hour! Then if you try to explore an Iris, it would probably take a very, very long time. It's wonderfully complex in every way! But then if you take into account every flower and plant that lives on planet earth! Hundreds- of-thousands-of-years of design work for us, and God created everything that lives and doesn't live on earth in a matter of days! The wonders of God never fail to amaze! Because God also created his most precious possession...Us! Brain, heart, lungs, cells(and millions of other things!!) all working together to keep us alive. Think about it, actually don't, they do it without you even doing anything! So now what do you think? Will you go outside and answer the beckoning call of "God is so great! Just praise him!"? Acacia Buschbach, Age 12 Photos taken by Acacia Buschbach.
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Gayla Berringer
7/25/2016 01:57:46 pm
Acacia, I really enjoyed reading your blog. People look at flowers from a distance every day, but not often do they take the time to study them up close. One of my favorite things to do in the summer months is take care of my two small flower beds and hanging flower pots. I feel kind of silly, but I usually go outside and look at them every day. They don't grow much in one day, but I just like admiring their beauty. I have been seeing some really cool sparkly orange and purple colored bugs on my Marigolds this week. Gayla
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7/27/2016 11:58:49 am
Hi, Acacia! What beautiful voice you have in your writing. You are a "true" observer! In my National Park Service research for my traveling trunk I came across this quote by a friend and fellow nature lover of President Theodore Roosevelt...his name was John Burroughs. President Roosevelt was a huge supporter of preserving nature for future generations. Aren't you glad he did? Here's the quote. Your writing made me think of this statement about Roosevelt being a "true observer": (beginning of quote) "You may know the true observer, not by the big things he sees, but by the little things; and then not by the things he sees with effort and unpremeditated seeing -- the quick spontaneous action of his mind in the presence of natural objects. Plenty of men see straight and report straight what they see, but those who see what others miss, who see quickly and surely, who have the detective eye, who get the drop so to speak on every object, who see minutely and who see whole, are true observers. Any person can clump about in nature, see little or nothing, and emerge unchanged. But for the "true observer", each excursion into nature is a life-changing event. He or she goes quietly and observantly into nature, sees things that dull eyes miss, and hears things to which others' ears are mute. The solitary or momentary event is but a blip in a much vaster continuum of time and space. Observers don't just see things; they feel things. The are attuned to the rhythms and beauty of nature, and their reports are descriptions not merely of what they see, but also of how they feel about what they see." (end quote)
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Acacia Buschbach
10/18/2016 01:24:38 pm
Thanks Lori and Gayla! I really appreciate it!
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