It’s been almost 15 years since we moved from Kansas to Wisconsin. I remember when my husband called me after his job interview with the news that we would soon be moving.
“They asked me if you want to come here, before I take the job, to see if you like Wisconsin!”
I did not have to see it. I knew I would love it.
“Do they have a tree up there?”, I asked jokingly.
“Honey, you won’t believe how beautiful it is here!”
My eyes could not get their fill when we finally drove through Wisconsin’s picturesque countryside for the first time. Lakes and rivers, hills and farmland, and trees, lots and lots of trees sprawled out along the way. I remember a prayer I prayed often in those days.
“God, don’t ever let my heart get so used to the beauty, that I won’t see it anymore!”
Last night, I remembered that prayer. As I was driving home from church, the setting sun was breathing an orange hew over a quiet lake. In the fields cranes and deer were silently promising signs of the warmer season ahead. Our service was filled with deep emotions, praise, and thanksgiving over what Christ had done for us.
“God, don’t ever let my heart get so used to the beauty, that I won’t see it anymore!”
Even though we have heard this week’s message so many times, may it be an new opportunity to exercise our emotions, like a muscle. May we drag not only our reasoning but also our emotions into the realities of the Truth, namely that everything on this earth is ultimately about Jesus Christ and God’s love for mankind. May we feel it again – anew.
Listen, my soul, to the song of God’s love,
He promised you good.
Be moved and stirred, my being, by His constant presence;
Your Creator has come down to earth.
Look, my heart, see what God has done –
The cross and the tomb are empty.
For your debt is paid – IN FULL.
Hope, my spirit, in the Son He sent.
For you were created to live and have your being in Jesus Christ.
“God, don’t ever let my heart get so used to the beauty, that I won’t see it anymore!”
for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’;
as even some of your own poets have said,
“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
Acts 17:28 (ESV)
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(Pictures and text by Heidi Viars, 2016)
Heidi Viars 
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