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Vol. 8, No. 3

“And ye are complete in him.” Colossians 2:10

May/June. 2005

Nature Trails

Early Morning Reverie

By Dorthy Hart

I was out walk-

ing in the woods

very early one morn-

ingwhenIcame

upon a good resting place beside a clump of touch- me-nots

(jewelweed). It was nearly dawn. The bird choir had already

started singing its songs of praise, accompanied by the back-

ground music of the babbling brook. A very peaceful envi-

ronment, indeed.

Soon the sun’s rays penetrated the heavy treetop canopy

and lightbeams painted the already lovely jewelweed blos-

soms with a glorious glow against the background of the for-

est floor.

I put up my hammock to discourage the bugs, and

crawled inside to read my Bible and Thoughts from the

Mount of Blessing, which I had brought along. As the morn-

ing wore on, I kept noticing that the little plants all around

me moved; not as if the wind was blowing them, but their

petals and leaves changed positions to follow the sun as it

made its way across the sky.

It reminded me of our attitudes in relation to Jesus, our

Son of Righteousness. The plants turn their faces to the sun

for warmth and nourishment. We turn our eyes of faith to-

ward our Son of Righteousness to get our spiritual warmth

and nourishment. As the sun moved, they moved. As Christ

moves about in His work in the heavenly sanctuary, we fol-

low Him with our eyes of faith. Each morning these plants

reposition themselves from where they were the night before

and start their movements all over again. Each morning we

greet our Savior in our hour of prayer, and reposition our

lives and begin all over again. He is the potter; I am the clay.

These plants were created by God, and so were

we—though for a different purpose. The plants are doing

what they were created to do by the “natural law” that God

built into them. Are we doing what we were created to do by

“moral law”? by the Word that was spoken into us?

“And God said, let us make man in our image, after our

likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all

the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon

the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image

of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

(Genesis 1:26-29)

He made the flowers to grow and be the kind of flower they

are, and arranged for them to be fruitful and to multiply. He told

us to be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, subdue it

and have dominion over it. He provided the nourishment that

plants would need. Likewise He told us, “I have given you ev-

ery herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth,

and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to

you it shall be for meat [food].” (Genesis 1:29)

(Continued on page 5)

Inside This Issue:

Editorial

HereamI—UseMe!··············· Page2

Are Women to Blame?················ Page4

AreWeReady? ··················· Page5

Dimensions of Joy ·················· Page6

Wee Wit & Wisdom ················· Page6

Gleaning from God’s Garden ············ Page7

Health is Wealth

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (Part 17) ····Page8

Spotlight on Orphans ················ Page9

Battle Plan ····················· Page10

Heart Zingers ···················· Page11

Around us all ···················· Page11

Heaven Rejoices ·················· Page11

I Shall Not Pass This Way Again ··········Page11

The Victory ····················· Page11

Coach’s Corner

LeaveyourComfortZone ··········· Page12

Lord Use Me ···················· Page12