I can't quite put my finger on why, but there's something I still can't figure out with nature. I do love nature. When I go for a nature walk it is really to look at things like the sky or the trees or the flowers. I marvel at their beauty and am often astonished at the splendour of it all. Nature is beautiful, and peaceful, but still very mysterious. I don't know or understand a lot about it, yet I can often feel one thing for sure: God is behind it all, as the creator of nature.
When I see a tree, I certainly admire its size and strength. Trees can not speak, but there is a great wisdom to learn from trees. For example, trees are aware of the seasons and know when to drop their leaves and restore them. Some trees can live for thousands of years, and weather storms, snow, heat, and wind and still stand. How is this possible? I suggest, that it is God's power giving them that strength, and the ability to grow and endure.
The ocean equally leaves me in amazement. It is vast and deep, and it seem that we have hardly touched the surface of it's depths. The ocean can be smooth and calm, or wild and intense. The waves relentlessly today don't stop. they are constantly coming and going in the same waves that have crashed for thousands of years, so how does the oceans know when to do this? Once again, I suggest God made it that way. There is no way the mighty ocean could move in such mighty rushing waves without anything behind it, and even with it all, it is difficult to fully understand about that power, that enables the ocean to behave, and move.
Even with the smaller things things, in nature, you see God's greatness. Birds, not only in the warmth of sunshine know when and where to fly to catch their summer home across the belly of the earth, flowers inherently know when it is time to bloom. Rain falls when the dry ground needs it, the sun rises every day. None of this happens by happenstance. Each one of these things were actually premeditated for you and I, a specific plan for each of them, and they all function under His power.
I do spend time sitting still and listening, I listen to the nature; the wind blowing through the trees, the chirp of the birds, the sound of the gentle rain falling. I do not always clearly understand how it all works, but I do know who made it; that is enough. Nature shows me how great and powerful God is; and also how loving and kind he must of been create such a beautiful world for us. I do not likely have any of the answers, but I know God does have the answers. That is enough for me.