In a Season of Very Much Too Big

"What does creation teach you about God?" my husband asks the group of campers gathered around a fire circle at our yearly family camp near Mormon Lake on Labor Day weekend. Surrounding us are towering Ponderosa Pines. Above us, blue sky that extends beyond our imaginations. Although God is evident, it is not here that I discover the Creator but, rather, in a forest adventure, in the woods, peeking out from pine needles, the perfect shade umbrella for ants and tiny spiders,

mushrooms

more than I have ever seen in the twenty-plus years we have camped here, growing up from the moist dirt of a wet monsoon season, in a dozen varieties. I get down belly-flat and zoom my camera, enraptured by the beauty found only in the bent down close.

What does creation teach me about God?

"God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; 

God is great because nothing is too small for Him." 

- Mark Batterson, in the New York Times bestseller, The Circle Maker

In the season

of the very much too big

it is important to see with eyes wide open

to the very much not too small

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What does creation teach you about God? 

Photos by Lynne Hartke