Greetings, readers. And welcome back to the series, “Caring for Mother Nature,” by my friend, author and naturalist, Peggy Sias Lantz.
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Peggy and I thank you very much for reading her articles here; I’ve been honored to publish them.
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The Last Word
by Peggy Lantz
In church, we often sing the hymn with the last verse: “Were the whole world of nature mine, that were an offering far too small; Love so amazing, so divine demands my soul, my life, my all.”
Dear Friends, the whole world of nature IS mine! And yours! God doesn’t want it back. He made it for us. He wants us to enjoy it, to revel in it, to marvel at it, to study it, to be at rest in it, to – above all – care for it, steward it, and nurture it.
Appreciating nature
There is so much out there to see, to hear, to sense.
Did you ever watch how the rain travels down the grooves in the bark of a tree or winds its way among the leaves of your grass?
Did you ever pluck a flower and look at how all its parts attach to one another? How the colors on the petal blend and change? Or exactly how the stem of the flower attaches to the stem of the plant?
Did you ever swim in a natural lake and feel the silky, velvety sensation of the water compared to your shower?
Did you ever spend the night outside somewhere really dark and see a really starry sky?
Did you ever sit in your back yard with your eyes closed and listen to the birds settle down for the night and hear the nighttime insects start their chorus, or the frogs start theirs?
The world of nature is so far away from the world of towns and cities, yet it’s in your own yard. Can you think about your yard in a new and different way?
Do what you can for this marvelous, beautiful world. And remember never to make the mistake of doing nothing because you could do only a little.
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Thanks for reading!
Your writer on the wing,
Charlene
