Open my eyes that I may see…
Have you watched the world?
Have you listened to it speak?
The birds flit in
and out of the cherry tree and then settle in the redbud. The blue jay settles down in the cherry tree
– his tree, by the way! Flying into the
yard, all of them walk in the green stopping to listen for a worm or catching a
bug. A cat meows outside the door. He isn’t really home but just hopes and
thinks he might be. Small boys laugh and
play and sometimes cry.
Watching and hearing all of this brings my world to life.
Observing the world, I have found that even birds seem to have a timetable. The cardinals come and call around 4:30 each afternoon. It has cooled a little and both feed and take a bath. A squirrel runs pell-mell on the wood fence in the morning either being chased or looking for just one more acorn. The world belongs to God and so do God’s creatures. We have faith that it will survive. But water is scarce and smoke has filled our air from far away fires.
What can we do to help our world? Animals and birds are not much different from people. We need water, food and so do our animals and birds. We need peaceful mornings and understanding. But we also need to be listened to and responded to.
From the summer edition of Living Well Magazine, Tom Osborne writes and I quote “I think you have to set a certain course in life and what I have tried to do is honor God in what I have done. If you try to do that and that’s your general objective, it may take you in a lot of different paths. But hopefully it doesn’t take you too far afield from what you are called to do. Just do the best you can one day at a time.”
So, we can care for God’s world and hold it carefully in our
hearts and hands. One day at a time
while listening and watching carefully.
Carolyn Olsen
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