I think its a priviledge to enjoy a soothing picturesque environs. Its something to pray for, and also deliberately prepare for. I wonder if it extends to doing life, choosing friends, choosing career, deciding where to pitch a home, supporting a policy or bylaw, conversation you listen to, levels and kind of music you pick, and more.

Perhaps noise and bustling has its place. All good in its appropriate forms, and could be kind to the heart. Things might need to filter through as through a sieve, so the grains stay below. Everything has its use. But calm, peace, rest, conclusions, order, stability, all has its place. Life then is in phases, reaching one goal, moving then to the next, allowing a creative design that enriches life and others. I come to think God likes nurturing things and putting all things in its place. Again you have to trust God means well. And also shape your life and kid-bubbles to create a soothing time for you, and safeguard it.

I Corinthians 14:40, is key on this end – “But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.” This Scripture speaks mainly to prophecy, but its a reflection on the mind of God, and extends to all things we do. We see in creation God’s sense of making things to flourish, we see Solomon’s wisdom translating to setting his Palace courts and service in fine tuned beauty, the earth’s seasons and plant cycles shows us this visualisations. Just seating to stare at the waves of sea as flocks of hair, tickles my sense of delightment and directs my mind to the peace of God.

So who is travelling miles to find God’s miracles scattered all over? I recently bought a Succulent plant, you will not believe how thrilled I was to notice how much of the leaves had sprout! There’s much left to take note of, then consider the pleasure finely arranged music bring without that loud strike out of place, or a meal set in its order and nicely prepared, birds in their formation in the sky, grass being blown and bending in non-resistance to the wind as in a dance, or a flower in its prime. In many examples, ask God to help your mind, and your brain cells appreciate nature’s blessings- God who set it, had a plan, first to His pleasure, and then to your delight. How then can one take a leaf and make clusters of order and grace? Consider. You will find something to nurture, but you would have re-engaged a piece of your creative side to brilliantly constructed moments of sweetness. This my friend takes work, as tending a garden, reorganising, building, refocusing, orientating, mapping out, seeding, salting conversations, decorating- its not the easy bit. But it is, and many more positives, an input to cause value.

God bless.

Evangelist Israel Okunwaye