A Color Tour

I invited Jeanne to church. She invited me to go with her to take a "color tour". Our church has a pot luck every third Sunday of the month, but we passed it up to catch the wonders of the season in the best light of day.

Nature fills your soul.

Pot luck will fill your stomach, but we feasted our eyes and filled our souls on the beauties of nature. For an hour she took me through the back roads of two small towns on the outskirts of our city. Every where we looked God had placed something beautiful and impossible to resist. We parked along many quiet dirt roads and encountered very few people. I have near 100 photos of gorgeous trees, beautiful still streams and lakes, osage oranges (remember I wrote about them awhile back), horses and quiet paths. I am still in awe of all the beauty that I have witnessed today. Getting in touch with nature has done my heart and mind good.

While we traveled I had a conversation with God that went something like this:

Lord, what do you see when you look at me?
It truly is a mystery.
Do you ask what kind of child you've made
Who sometimes faces life afraid?

Would God answer:

Not one day goes by that I don't hear
Your daily prayers murmured in my ear
I send you the prettiest pictures you've ever seen
Shades of orange, red, and evergreen.

There's a love I share with you each day
Don't leave me out of your work or play
Put your chores aside and come outside
Let me be your tourist guide.

There's a profound love that I share
With my children every where
It shouts from tree tops far and wide
Put your chores aside and come outside.
poem
by Judy Sheldon-Walker
nature by God