Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. Spring is taking its time getting here so my Quality Time with the One who “scattered the stars in the sky and knows them each by name” was spent inside looking out with a hot cup of coffee this morning. I don’t linger on the porch until it’s comfortably warm out there, but I step outside at daybreak just to greet the new day no matter what. I want to see what God is up to on each new day, and I want to see what’s changed since yesterday. The trees are fuller today than they were yesterday and my heart swells up as I considered how the leaves will soon be rustling in the wind…ahh…like sounds from Heaven! Watching the Spring unfold isn’t “like” witnessing a miracle, it IS a miracle and one that I’ll never grow tired of nor will I ever take for granted. Isn’t that the way you look at nature too?

It can be so easy to only focus on the big things in life and to miss all of those little things if we’re not careful. Like a child looking for entertainment, sometimes we only notice the BIG things because it takes a whole lot to hold our attention in a busy world. But it’s those “little” things where the biggest Miracles are found, and it’s in those “little” things where the Touch of the Master’s Hand can been seen anytime you look for it. Sometimes I think people fail to have that Intimate Relationship with the Living God because they don’t see His Hand in every single little thing around them. To them, He’s the “Big Guy” in the sky and they expect Big Things from Him because of it, and unless they see a disease healed or the sea parted, they get a little bored with all the He is on an “average” day…but not me. I see His Hand in every direction I look in, and I give Him Glory for it all, from a budding tree to birds fighting over their food, to a raindrop that lingers on the leaf of a plant before it drops to the ground. Sometimes people comment on how “easy it is” for me to appreciate the world because of my view from the front porch as if that’s the ONLY reason I see the Touch of the Master’s Hand with 20/20 vision. But if anybody has ever spent time with me off this magnificent farm, they’ll tell you that I can find beauty in anything, and I can see the Hand of God in an asphalt parking lot…as long as I’m looking for Him.

It makes me sad to hear people say that they’ve never been an eye-witness to a Miracle, because I know it isn’t the Miracle that is lacking, but the Relationship with Him instead. Maybe they give credit to God for some things and then credit to “Mother Nature” or “the universe” for the rest as if there are different kinds of provisions that come from different sources. But it’s when we KNOW that He’s the source of all Life, and we KNOW that He cares about every seed, and every bird and everything in between, that we embrace His Majesty and we give Him Glory for every tiny little piece of life. Some people “worship” nature, and some people “worship” animals, but I Worship the One that holds it ALL in the “palm of His Hand”, and I know that He gives me “dominion over” these things. Bees exist to pollinate and snakes exist for rodent control – I don’t like either one of them and I do my part to keep them away from my space every chance I get. But I never forget the One who made them and I never stop marveling over the Work of His Hand…even in the creepy things.

Like Adam and Eve before me, I walk through the beautiful Garden of Life, and I commune with the Living God every day in every way giving thanks for every tiny little piece of it. But I’m not the same as the trees or the animals or the bugs; I’m a Child of the Living God, and in His eyes, nothing else compares to human life, with a human mind, free will, and a soul that has an eternal Destiny. I’ll be a good steward of all that He entrusts me with today, and I’ll be giving Glory to Him for the miracle of it all. More than anything else, my Focus will be on the Biggest Miracle the world has ever known, and I’ll do my Part to share the Story of Hope in every single tiny piece of my day today.

How about you?