This is absolutely my favorite time of year.  I love being at home and watching nature unfold in our own yard.  We have purposed over the last few years to add more trees, shrubs, and plants to our little 1-acre lot .  So, the trees coming back to life, the lilacs and honeysuckle in bloom, the crabapple trees in full color, the vegetable garden getting planted, the bluebirds nesting in our yard, and the hummingbirds back at the window feeder are all reminders of life—and life more abundantly.

Daily, my wife and I walk around the yard to check up on all of our babies.  How are our little trees doing this year?  How about the small spruce trees?  Is that winter burn or is that tree not doing so well?  How are the baby bluebirds doing?  It looks like the strawberries are being formed.  You get the picture.  Through it all, I see more and more detail of those things and I would know if something happened to any one of them.  Also, I see God through it all.

I was watching the silver maples shed their load of seeds the other day.  I have seen this many times before, but I was mesmerized by the whole thing.  The seeds are transported by what looks like a helicopter wing.  The wind was blowing fairly strong and some of the seeds were getting carried a hundred yards away from the tree.  Ingenious!  The seeds go far, but not too far.

There is no way that the design of those seeds could possibly happen by chance.  It was designed, from the beginning, to do what it does.  It is a tree, it does not think, it just does what it was designed to do.

There is only one explanation—a designer.  The only possible designer is God.

I see this all over the place through the nature in our yard.  I see examples of His handiwork everywhere.  The more I slow down and watch, the more evident it becomes.  I did not need to travel to the Pyramids or Hawaii to find Him.  I have found a level of happiness and satisfaction by finding God in my own backyard.  I hope you too can find Him in the most usual of places.