It was a clear brisk night and the stars were poking out of the darkness like little pin holes. Living out in the sticks has an amazing blessing with it. When the lights are out, they are really out! From our yard we can see stars in ways that I only remember from camping trips up into the mountains back in NY. It was an exceptionally beautiful night so i said, “honey lets get the kids, some blankets, and some pillows and drive the pickup out into the middle of the field.” Which we promptly did. Kari bundled up Averie and Riley as if it were Rochester, NY in the middle of a January blizzard. We threw the blankets and pillows into the back of the truck. I fired up the rig and we off roaded it to the middle of the field. The only one put out was our black lab who wanted so badly to jump up into the truck bead with us. She finally laid beside the truck and we all laid there and just took in the view. Breathtaking. Amazing. And it would have been peaceful if it weren’t for the 5 year olds tendency to continually chatter about this or that or this or that or this or that. Even that added to the magic of the moment though. God is good. Sometimes its good to just look at creation and to see the fingerprints of God in it. To see that we serve and live under the watchful eye of an amazing and awesome creator. To see take in some of the sights and some of the beauty that he has made.
In Romans 1:20 (NIV) it says,
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.“
That sounds like so much fun! I remember when I was a kid we would take our blankets and sling them over the clothes line and call it our tent. I would look at the stars and the moon and be so amazed at how beautiful and mysterious the night sky appeared. God made such a beautiful world for us, I will always be amazed!