God saw what he had made and he said "it is good"!

By Joyce Pelletier

Genesis 1:11-12  God said “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.”  And God saw that it was good.

     Pictures speak a thousand words. I’ve noticed that I lean towards providing photos that have some sort of passageway. Whatever season we are in, when I choose a picture to go with the blogs that I write, it boggles my mind the ones that stand out the most is the paths or passageways. 
     Last month it was about Tunnel Vision and the picture was the picture from the Harbor tunnel in Baltimore, MD. It always amazes me that whatever I write about is not what I think, especially I start thinking about one thing then it adds up to a changed agenda. The good news about that is that it’s when I know God has stepped in to expose me to something new over something I intended. 
     I do admit my main goal is to share something that might encourage someone about our journey with God. Our journey impels thought of a vehicle to ride in or a path to walk on, maybe even a bus tour or flight to another place. 
     My desk sets in front of a double window in my bedroom, half of  where I have of my room is for sleeping and the other is many different things on the computer. Let it be an email to a friend or preparing a Bible Study for our Tues Group or write a grocery list or continue my tales as you would say, in my journal daily. I never know whether I’ll come up with something for the entry or not. 
     I shared with an old friend about my journal and mentioned that sometimes I have nothing to write. He told me that is when you start with, ‘I don’t have anything to write today, God.’ And it boggles the mind that before I know it a whole page is written and something I didn’t realize until I wrote those words. 
     What does that have to do with this blog. Are you scratching your  head? Well, I’m scratching my head. Let’s see what happens.
     What would happen if when you start your daily prayer time with, “Lord, I feel empty this morning. I’ve nothing to say.  Maybe now is the time for me to ask that question, “What would you like me to know this morning? I’m empty, perhaps you have something pretty special to share with me God to make me know something special I may have missed this day.”
      Then God steps and influences me to write and when I finish, I realize I may not have anything to write, Now God steps in to help me with that. Before I know it, I have a couple of pages written. And sure enough God did remind me of things I’d forgotten and I end the journal with praise for something God had done for me. 
     I’d just like to encourage anyone who reads my statement of not having anything  to write and when I look at my paper, and it inspired me to write and make something of my quiet sort of world, (at times) and God made me smile today. That is enough to say to God, “I love this world you gave me to live in this day. I want to thank you and praise your name that what you make in my life is always “very good!” 
     Fall is a few short weeks away and we get to experience that ultimate and amazing color in our world that is short term, but worth ever moment of contemplating it’s beautiful, no matter what! Do you know why? It’s because God made it and it was definitely “Good!”