The Power of Creation (Day 20)

January 20, 2014

     My husband's alarm sounds sharply at 5:00.  I groan and roll over, snuggling farther, deeper into the warm covers.  My groggy mind flashing to the weather from the day and night before.  I recall the constant beating of the sleet and rain that kept me awake most of the night.  I fondle through the dark, reaching for my phone.  I check the local news website for school closings, half dreading, half hoping what I feel is evident.  Nothing.  I drag myself out of bed and drag my house slipper covered feet to the bathroom to begin my daily regimen...well not so daily lately.  I check the school closings once more, now that I am almost fully awake.  There it is.  School is closed.  I groan out loud for now being awake enough that I could not again return to my comfortable slumber.  The smell of coffee reaches my senses as I descend the stairs.  What am I going to do with yet another snow day?!  The laundry is done.  The kitchen is clean.  My lessons are planned.  My creative side awakens.  I crochet for a while, make jewelry for a while, even contemplate making a batch of my favorite sugar cookies.  

     There is something satisfying about making something with your own hands.  It is very gratifying to look at a finished product that has turned out well.  Something taken from a little of nothing and made into something a person would want and cherish.  

     God must have and must still feel that same way.  But much greater.  For he has the power to make and create so much more.  I know how I feel when a work is finished that I know I have done a great job of doing.  He must feel something much greater.  How could I even begin to compare his creation to mine?  I don't consider it a comparison, but a means to put things into perspective.  To appreciate what he has created all for me.  The beauty of nature, the grandeur of life,  the gift of heaven.

     I will from this point on remember as I create things with my hands, that it is by the grace of God that I am able to do these things and also by his grace that I am living and can have everlasting life when my time here is done.

Psalms 104:24-25 How many are your works, oh Lord!  In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.  There is the sea, vast spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number-living things both large and small.