On a previous post, when you were "taking us there" - to the holy place in the woods, I could feel your reverance. What joy and peace you must have!
And as you've referred to our natural world being of the stuff of God's Word, what a natural joy and peace it has, eh?
I'm working on it, Alamo-Girl -- or rather, God is working on it in me. I too, like yourself and others here, have been "born again," my life has been completely turned around, by the grace of the Lord. Now I see Him everywhere, in His works. You know, somehow I feel it is such a privilege to be a part of His creation, to participate in the astonishing wonder and beauty of it all. I can understand the attitude of the great saint Francis of Assisi ("peace saint" and patron saint of animals and ecology); and I especially love his splendid prayer --
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is sadness, joy;
Where there is Darkness, Light.
O Divine Master, grant
That I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
Not so much to be pardoned, as to pardon;
Not so much to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying that we are born again
To eternal Life.
Amen.