So, after trying to resurrect my old blog, I finally gave up and just started a new one. It was probably better, anyway, to do it this way. My other blog, "The Adventures of Little Bo Peep," was focused on my adventures in the mission field as I served the Great Shepherd overseas. Now that I'm back in the States, going to college, and settling back into American life (if that's possible for a returned missionary), I feel like my life is rambling. I certainly haven't left the service of the Shepherd, I'm just at a different job site! And if there are any lessons I learn that someone can benefit from -- wonderful!
Today the sun is shining, the daffodils, spring beauties, and peach trees are blooming, the wind is whistling a merry tune, and students are bustling about the campus. I'm so thankful for such a loving Creator! He didn't have to make this world beautiful, but He did because He loves us so much.
"In the beginning, God was revealed in all the works of creation. It was Christ that spread the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth. It was His hand that hung the worlds in space, and fashioned the flowers of the field. 'His strength setteth fast the mountains.' 'The sea is His, and He made it.' Psalm 65:6; 95:5. It was He that filled the earth with beauty, and the air with song. And upon all things in earth, and air, and sky, He wrote the message of the Father's love. Now sin has marred God's perfect work, yet that handwriting remains. Even now all created things declare the glory of His excellence. There is nothing, save the selfish heart of man, that lives unto itself. No bird that cleaves the air, no animal that moves upon the ground, but ministers to some other life. There is no leaf of the forest, or lowly blade of grass, but has its ministry." -Desire of Ages pg. 20
"This is my Father's world,
And to my listening ears,
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres."
-Maltbie D. Babcock
Today the sun is shining, the daffodils, spring beauties, and peach trees are blooming, the wind is whistling a merry tune, and students are bustling about the campus. I'm so thankful for such a loving Creator! He didn't have to make this world beautiful, but He did because He loves us so much.
"In the beginning, God was revealed in all the works of creation. It was Christ that spread the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth. It was His hand that hung the worlds in space, and fashioned the flowers of the field. 'His strength setteth fast the mountains.' 'The sea is His, and He made it.' Psalm 65:6; 95:5. It was He that filled the earth with beauty, and the air with song. And upon all things in earth, and air, and sky, He wrote the message of the Father's love. Now sin has marred God's perfect work, yet that handwriting remains. Even now all created things declare the glory of His excellence. There is nothing, save the selfish heart of man, that lives unto itself. No bird that cleaves the air, no animal that moves upon the ground, but ministers to some other life. There is no leaf of the forest, or lowly blade of grass, but has its ministry." -Desire of Ages pg. 20
"This is my Father's world,
And to my listening ears,
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres."
-Maltbie D. Babcock
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