Awe and Wonder

I am reading a book called "Praise Habit: finding God in sunsets and sushi," by David Crowder. It is really good and I am learning to find God everywhere, and that every second is an opportunity for praise. Here's a little piece of what I read in my last chapter...
"I understand what it is to look at nature, and I say, "My God!" because I've seen the Creator. I look into black skies strewn with shimmering dots of light--nights that buzz with word of their Maker. Moonlight you can feel on your skin if you pay really close attention some October evening, a touch of remembrance that the sun is shining just as bright as ever and dawn is coming. Brilliant drops of rain that sing His name all the way down their journey from cloud to dirt. Grass you can feel growing underfoot if you're really still."

I started reading Genesis this week and the chapter I had read in my book made me picture creation in a different way, in awe and wonder of the God of the universe. Hopefully it will do the same for you.

¹ First God made heaven & earth. ²The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. ³ And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. ⁴ And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.





⁹ And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry land Earth,


and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.


¹¹ And God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth." And it was so. ¹² The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.


¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. ¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸ to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.


²⁰ And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens." ²¹ So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds,

and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." ²³ And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.


²⁴ And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.


So this week make every moment a praise opportunity to let God's wonder and awe "fall from our mouths and drip from our lives."
That is all.