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God loves diversity, is a sensualist and has a sense of humor :) God also seems cruel to human eyes, beyond all reason.... Mary Oliver, though, answers better than I ever could. She's constantly writing about witnessing the divine in nature. This is from her book of poems "Red Bird": Maker of All Things, including appetite, including stealth, including the fear that makes all of us, sometime or other, flee for the sake of our small and precious lives, let me abide in your shadow-- let me hold on to the edge of your robe as you determine what you must let be lost and what will be saved.
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Nature tells us that God is big and beautiful and unexplainable. Things in nature work in harmony with one another all things coexist and there is a greater order. The same goes for God. Nature can be the greatest teacher about God, because it is God's creation. I realize that is a disputable point. But I feel like anyone who has ever spent time close the mother earth would agree with me in saying that there is something of a greater power out in the natural world. God is good and nature portrays the goodness, majesty and power every day.
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God is creative. And He likes patterns. But sometimes He uses destruction as part of the creative process.
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Not too long ago, I was struggling with a whole bunch of negative thoughts about humans, and how violent we can be, and how unworthy of a loving God we are, and I asked for guidance about this. Later that day, I saw my sweet cat torturing a mouse right in front of my house. I felt a moment of deep love for my cat and for the mouse. I realized that I loved the creature, even though I did not care for the behavior. Animals can appear to be cruel, but they are doing what they instinctively know to do to survive. Humans are the same way. We act in ways that are violent and disrespectful of ourselves and others, but that does not make us unlovable or unworthy on the inside. We are just trying to survive the best way we know how to. We are not that different from animals. There is no perfection, and yet it is all perfect. It is possible to be loved by something greater despite our inability to behave well.
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I think it shows us how to enjoy what He has created for Us to live at oneness with eachother. Anywhere you are born in the world, the world is an experience. Whether hardship or happiness nature is soothing... Nature is so peaceful and ancient and we can be one with it. Nature tells us He's beyond all bounds without comparison, The Unknowing Force of beauty.
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One thing I love about nature is how it survives perfectly without human contact. ie Planet Earth DVDs on the tundra, and the ending of Into The Wild. I think nature is just one of God's examples about how there are bigger things out there that don't involve humans. Recently I've been taken over by the world of fake tan, teeth whitener, hair cuts, hair dye and make up (mind you, I work at a drugstore..) so it's been hard to realize that there are bigger things than the human race sometimes. Also, nature exists without money, as did Jesus. I think it's also an example of how money and the human race do not rule the world. Although it's easy to forget... thank you for reminding me with this question =)
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I think it tells us that everything God created works perfectly and everything serves a purpose.
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"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands" (Psalm 19:1). "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse" (Romans 1:20).
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That God likes interdependent systems, cycles within cycles, effect and consequence, beauty, timely progression that is sustainable throughout time, attention to the very minute and momentary as well as to the immense and eternal.
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He has a sense of humor. I think everyone forgets that. How can he not have a sense of humor if he created something like a giraffe or a seal? I think animals and nature in general are God's way of telling us to not be so serious.
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