lovelights attic: Nature In All It's Glory

To be one with nature is a deep urge. The love of living things, plants, trees, wildlife speaks to us and when we stand a moment or two in nature we feel a deep completeness and a personal sense of harmony. To be one with nature is to be One with God. We have been given this beautiful, gorgeous earth to live on and enjoy and receive pleasure from.

" The heavens declare the Glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork" Psalm 19:1

Gardening, hiking in nature, sitting in the yard under a tree, camping in the woods, visiting a national monument, visiting a nature preserve, going to the park or just enjoying your own small space that you've created on your porch all give us a tremendous boost to our spirit and helps to awaken our natural instincts for survival and calms our stress. Getting out in nature is the best therapy we can use for ourselves, even if you live in a small space without a yard you can at least grow a pot or two of herbs or flowers on a porch or window sill, but getting out and putting your bare feet into the soft dirt or sand at the beach just doe's something for your well being. For me, just imagining doing it makes me smile!

One of the things I love to do is get up very early and go for a hike in the desert here where I live. Its really a pretty place surrounded by mountains in the distance and hiking trails that go through big saguaro and other types of cactus.

I spend a lot of my time there, just sitting on a big rock and listening to the silence and feeling the peace. I always see something new. A plant, a rock, tree, flower, animal...something..... I always come home feeling calmer and with an inner happiness.

I just now took a short walk around my yard, as it is toooo hot to hike at this time. I could only stay out a short time, but in that short time I saw a rabbit and spoke with it, two humming birds, looked up and saw white puffy clouds floating by, saw a family of quail in the wash behind my house, smelt the fragrance of the orange tree in the neighbors yard, heard the doves calling peace, peace, peace, saw the sun shinning through the trees, making silver jewels of the leaves, found a new yellow rose bud to pick to enjoy inside and just soaked up all this like a sponge to use later in my day to find my joy. That little walk in my yard perked up my spirits and let me know that