I spend so much of my time commuting on buses and metros, missing sunsets because I am underground in a tunnel, and driving around suburbia where cars and matching homes are everywhere. One of the most restorative things for me to do these days is to get outside the bubble, away from traffic and construction and other ugly man-made things and enjoy quiet and beauty of God’s creation.
Mein Mann and I went to the Maryland side of Great Falls park today, and despite our freezing fingers and toes had a wonderful time taking photos and enjoying being outdoors and away from the chaos of the DC area.
We saw several deer families with little babies running around.
We reminisced about our 2nd date there (of course this didn’t happen that time, but we’ve had fun taking shadow pics lately).
I made a lot of “oohs” at the beautiful icicles all around.
What a beautiful afternoon!
I must remember that all of this beauty points to God, the Creator of the universe, in all His glory. And if we think this is beautiful now, what will it be like when God makes all things new one day, and there is no brokenness or decay?
I love this picture from C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle –
Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like this. You may have been in a room in which there was a window that looked out on a lovely bay of the sea or a green valley that wound away among the mountains. And in the wall of that room opposite to the glass there may have been a looking glass. And the sea in the mirror, or the valley in the mirror, were in one sense just the same as the real ones: yet at the same time they were somehow different — deeper, more wonderful, more like places in a story: in a story you have never heard but very much want to know. The difference between the old Narnia and the new Narnia was like that. The new one was a deeper country: every rock and flower and blade of grass looked like it meant more. I can’t describe it any better than that: if you ever get there you will know what I mean.
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