Reason or Wonder Origami

There comes a point in one's 'travels'

or wet-snow-laden-ski-clump-clump

where we eventually put the camera away and simply wonder/worship.

But I did get some snow-mementos before doing so!

Took to the slopes for a while yesterday, 

well, maybe slopes is a bit exaggerated but hills and dells isn't😀

and I stood in the *illusion of 'the middle of nowhere' (I could still hear cars)

and sang How Great Thou Art at the top of my lusty rusty range to

the only One who could possibly hear me 

because beauty such as fresh snowfall 

will woo one to do such things!

Each hill and rill and dell and frond 

And crook and nook and brook and pond 

And lingering leaf and laud-less limb 

Manifests and showcases Him 

How glorious, the cloth unfurled 

To gild and cloak the naked world 

No dowdy rags to drape earth’s bars 

But a cape of sequins and stars 

How manifold and wonder-wild 

The world extols the day God smiled 

And flung into eternity 

Creation’s sacred ‘let there be’ 

How beautiful God’s perfect plan 

Where we have ruined all we can 

While His supreme authority 

Safeguards creation’s majesty 

Where bud and seed heed the design 

That breeds the tendrils of the vine 

And feeds the creatures in the care 

Of He who tends time’s thoroughfare 

And bends the bough that bears the fruit 

And grants the offspring to the root 

And fills each season with fresh ways 

To fold Reason to humble praise 

© Janet Martin 

*my sister wrote in a Christmas letter 

how one Sunday in autumn they hiked along the river and old railway 

until "it certainly felt like the middle of nowhere but

the sound of distant traffic reminded her that it was but an illusion"

How often if we rely on 'feeling'

do we become disillusioned!

Better to rely on what we know, not see!

Psalm 90:2

Before the mountains were born 

or you brought forth the whole world, 

from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Here is a one of my favourite versions of

one of my favourite hymns!

How Great Thou Art