Perhaps that’s one of the reasons I’ve always loved nature—God’s beautiful and terrifying creation. It is what it is, not what we want it to be. In a world where man thinks he is the measure of all things, nature begs to differ. There is a givenness to nature that is sanity in an insane world. It is there to sustain our lives, to be enjoyed, but also to challenge us, to put us in our place, and to impart to us wisdom—if we are willing to listen.
