We all went for a hike this afternoon and enjoyed an absolutely beautiful day. The sky was bright blue, the grass and trees were green and there were many pretty wild flowers on our walk. The boys always love to find a treasure on these jaunts and thankfully nature never disappoints them. They found a magnificent hawks feather and showed it proudly to their Daddy with questions on how it's attached and if we had lots of these could we fly?!? My middle son walked along for quite a bit gently holding a lady bug making plans for it to come home and be a new pet. The boys and our dog saw several blue tailed skinks and tried with out avail to catch one. It was a fun Patterson adventure!
For the past month our Sunday School class has done a unit on caring for our world and how as Christian's we should be good stewards of this place God has temporarily placed us to live. We have learned about recycling more, buying less excess packaging, using our own bags, reusing water bottles, using our own coffee cup, making a compost pile to make organic fertilizer, using water more wisely the list goes on and on. We are making little steps to being more responsible with the gift of the earth.
Dear God,
May we be servants of Christ and stewards of God's world by being resposible with our use of natural resourses. May we work together to keep Your world a clean place to live for the generations that follow us.
Genesis 2:15 "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it" (NIV)
Psalms 65:9 "You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain."(NIV)
Psalm 24:1 "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it" (NIV)
2 comments:
I am so impressed with your ability to pull the perfect scriptures to match your blog.
You are a good steward of the best resource, the bible, God has given to us. And thanks for the example of how to be a better steward of the many other resources God has given to us as well
For the beauty of the Earth,
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies.
Lord of all to Thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise!
In these days when I have been serving in Sunday School rather than singing in worship, I appreciate seeing ways to worship God apart from a service in a church sanctuary.
Thank you for your offering this morning!
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