“As the psalms see it, all of creation would instruct us in the practice of joy, if we’d let it. This is certainly what John Calvin thought. God, he believed, wants to ravish us by his creation, and by it, to ravish us with himself. “If one feather of a peacock is able to ravish us,” Calvin preaches, “what will God’s infinite majesty do?” If a hawk can ravish and amaze us, “what ought all his works do when we come to the full numbering of them?”10 Creation both exhibits the joy of the Lord and summons us to join its praise.11”