All Creation Cries, Holy
A few evenings a week, I head out for a walk around our little gated community. I figured out that twenty laps around is about 10,000 steps. On this night, right before Christmas, I was asking God to help ease a tender place. I asked him to show me something I needed to know. Before the words were even out of my mouth, my eyes were instantly drawn to the very tops of the tall pine trees in the night sky.
The neighborhood where I live has an abundance of trees. At least a dozen of them are 80-to-100-foot pines. It was after sunset and the coastal fog was dropping down, forming a haze over the pointed tops of the pines. Captivated by their protective stature and mystical appearance, I wondered how I had I not noticed them before? I heard God whisper, “they are conductors.”
I spent the rest of the walk with an overflowing heart, amazed at how he wooed my soul with a treetop. I felt an awareness that creation was interceding in union with me and translating that which I could not express to the heavens. Since then, I have read and re-read Romans 8:26-30, keeping the magnificent trees in my mind.
I hope you have an opportunity to step out into creation to lay your burdens before him. May God overwhelm your heart with exactly what you need. Let his whispers bring comfort to the most tender places and guide you into this new year.
“And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” Romans 8:26-28 NLT