God could have created a much duller creation and much duller creatures to fill it, but in his goodness, he formed and filled it with color, cacophony, cornucopia. Anyone who has passed a gardenia bush at dusk has known the redolent goodness of God. Anyone who has halted at a sunrise, stilled to the calling of a bird, wept at a harmony, rolled a raspberry across the tongue, reveled in dew-laden grass underfoot, or marveled at the symmetry of a spider web knows that goodness lies scattered around us, like so many diamonds for the gathering. We are fairly tripping over it at every turn. Even in
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