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BicycleWe often ride bikes along the Little Blue River in Independence. It’s one time we get away from the phone and pretend we have nothing to do. Sometimes we leave the bikes and take the dogs. We don’t have young children anymore to help remind us to stop and admire the changing leaves or flowers, but dogs do almost the same thing. They can’t just walk three miles at a steady pace, they have to stop and smell the leaves, grass, trees, or whatever. So, while they are using their olfactory senses, we take time to use our visual senses.

It’s quite obvious as we stop to look around that our God is an “Awesome God,” and an “Awesome Artist!” It often strikes me out there in the middle of God’s artwork, that even though my life has been in church work, it is sometimes hard to stop and thank God, our Creator, for all He has done. We get so caught up in all the “busy-ness” of doing God’s work, that we often neglect the worship and praise of our Creator. All of us, no matter what our calling in life, can become so busy doing “good” things that we neglect our Father.

God could have created a purely functional world without beauty, colors, smells, tastes, etc. but He didn’t. He created beauty in flowers, trees, faces, landscapes, mountains, oceans, and rolling hills. He created such an enjoyable world for us to live in. I hope you and your family have time to enjoy it!