Love letters from God

Have you ever looked up and found a gift that leaves you breathless?  Inspired?  Humbled?  Amazed at the beauty, you feel something stirring deep in your soul—a response to the offering you are about to receive.

Lately, I’ve been fascinated by some spectacularly gorgeous cloud displays during my commutes.  The way the sunlight peeks through, streams through, bombards through the misty cover….

All unique.

     All lovely.

          All on days when I was discouraged.

I realized these are love letters in their own way.  It’s as if God is saying to me,

I’m present. 

     I’m capable. 

          I’m glorious in majesty. 

               Look at how beautifully I can express this truth through My creation!

 I am thinking of you today,

     and I love you.

I created you for a personal relationship with Me,

     and I enjoy relating to you in ways you understand and appreciate.

These are the days when I want to leave behind the office, the paperwork, the bills, the chores, the traffic, the concerns and do what I did when I was a little girl:  lay down on my back in the grass

and gaze…

     and gaze…

          and gaze into the exquisiteness right above me. 

Watching for changes in the vaporous canopy.   Catching glimpses of God in the midst of His firmament.

What does He speak to your heart?  What do you hear when you read His love letters to you? 

He is mindful of us.  Not in some abstractly distant way, but in everyday, tiny moments like the fluffy clouds that capture my heart with their sunlit miles of massive, yet ethereal splendor. 

Or like sweet baby laughs,

     ebullient flower gardens,

          welcome breezes on warm days,

               gentle words from friends and strangers.   

“O Lord, our Lord,
     how majestic is your name in all the earth! 

You have set your glory above the heavens. 

When I consider your heavens,
     the work of your fingers,
       the moon and the stars,
         which you have set in place,
     what is man that you are mindful of him,
       the son of man that you care for him?

You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
    and crowned him with glory and honor.” 

(Psalm 8)

“For you make me glad by your deeds, O Lord;
     I sing for joy at the works of your hands. 

How great are your works, O Lord,
     how profound your thoughts!” 

(Psalm 92)