Its Only Werds...

No, seriously! Have you heard their song? It's more like a GIGGLE!!! And aren't they GORGEOUS!?!!?!?! Even the females!  There seems to be a much larger population of goldfinches in the woods behind the office where I work. And, come to think of it, I haven't seen or heard my "red-head" lately.    There was at least one woodpecker, I think a red-headed kind, and a downey woodpecker too. I used to hear him pecking and learned their song from there. Cool song. And when it rained, there seemed to be lots of goldfinches in those woods. Now the goldfinches are ALL OVER back there. Oh yeah, and there was a house finch at school I'd see on my lunch breaks. Those are so beautiful in a more quiet way than the goldfinches, yes? But gorgeous nonetheless...any way, a quote for you I heard in church today. We sorta celebrated the earth He gave us to live on / in and our worship leader / pastor gave us all GREEN t-shirts to wear to proclaim these things:

Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

St. Paul of the Cross

And in Genesis 1:1, the Hebrew word for "created" is "bara" -- sorry, don't know how to do the housetop accent thingies, but the words means (from my Strong's concordance) "...to create, to make...is of profound theological significance, since it has only God as it's subject...only God can "create" in the sense implied by 'bara'...(HERE'S THE BEST PART!!!) the verb expresses CREATION OUT OF NOTHING....

SEE?!?!?!? *sigh* i LOVE that!!!!

So -- let us be good stewards of the earth He created where we live. (Stewards = a person who takes care of something that belongs to someone else.)

Love you!

Loree