Looking up.

I looked up as I usually do and today was just amazed at the way God painted the sky. This seemingly simple subject never to me seems commenplace. Just about everytime that I am outside I can not help but look up to see what it is that God has made today. And, I am not dissapointed as the greatest artist can not make something unbeautiful. It is one of those moments when you see something beautiful you stare and you are breathless. The kind you want nothing to cause you to look away.

There is much to love of the sky. At night, there is the moon, the stars and sometimes dark clouds, shooting stars, comets and eclipses. Durring the day it is sun, clouds, rainbows, the moon, sunrises, sunsets and lighting. Today I looked at the many types of clouds he put together. Large puffy, lone clouds, masses of many dark clouds, swirley ones, bright ones, some traveling, some suspended in place, smooth thin clouds, smeared ones where it was raining, some with lighting flashing. What else could show God's glory, His beauty, His power, or His hand in creation more then the heavens?

I guess I am even more remided of each and every stroke He puts in us. He tells us in Psalms how He knit us together in our mothers womb. How detailed is our God. From every eyelash to every toe He created us for Himself, the masterfull and purposful artist. Too bad we are not as amazed that He made us so fearfully and wonderfully as we are when we see the sky. No, we are more prone to admire others and look to what lines and curves or lack of curves they have...Well, He is the maker, the artist and I like that he makes things so full of variety. When did you ever hear a piece of clay talking back to the one who made it and complaining about the way it looked or wanting to be made for some other purpose. Can you imagine if your cup just began to complain about the roses you painted on the side of it? Or better yet if it begged you to let it be a plate rather then a cup. The sky today would not have been as beautiful had He not mixed all the clouds I would have never put together. Besides the outside I love the fun mix of personality, humor, passion, love, intelligence, and all the things that make us different. He knows better and today was such a reminder of that.