Creation

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1

We have only to look around us at the beauties God wrought in the creation of our world to know that here is one of impeccable taste, our world's finest connoisseur. Anywhere we turn in nature we see the demonstration of (perfection) - from the lowliest roadside buttercup to the intricately engineered iridescence of seashells like th chambered nautilus or the Pacific triton's trumpet; from the proud beauty of the preening male cardinal to the flashing brilliance of the tiny hummingbirds; in every foaming, curling wave of the ocean and every star in the sky.

True, in ourselves we are not quite ready for such perfection. At points each of us wants to drag along in the mud of mediocrity. Our taste has to be educated upwards . . . But we have nothing to fear in the process.

By Catherine Marshall, taken from "Women's Devotional Bible 2"