"the earth is full of His unfailing love." Ancient Wonders, Present Phenomena and outright Natural Wonder.

 

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The above meme from the New International Version says, "the earth is filled with God's unfailing love".  We could but marvel if we tried to take it all in via our senses, and be overcome by the experience of nature.

We see Hawaii and other situations around the world, and see some miracles unfolding, each with their own impetus, each with their own unknown purpose.  California soon to get massive Hurricane flooding, too.

Miracles and wonders unfolding in the world today, such as it as ever been, in some ways, such to give us a sense of awe at the scope and scale of various things.

Elsewhere, I wrote that God also created Light so we could take it all into our senses, and for the unsighted, they too have ways to sense the world around them.  No one is without--even prisoners behind thick walls know the wonders and perils of nature.

People tend to go back and forth, that God works through nature, and yet others that God "is" nature, and back and forth, ad infinitum, with never a clarifying moment afforded to either.

What we do know, God created nature, whether it is called a "part of Him" or a "tool of His".

Right now, we are suffering our own wonder in the Southeastern USA: heat and humidity, along with almost daily thunderstorms, but this pales compared to things like tornadoes and typhoons in other parts of the world, and we here know we've been served comparatively well by nature, as we watch our crops come to fruition, the corn crop, and the later cotton crop, and other things.

In our own region, thunderstorms generally bring a temporary drop in the heat, and also most times bring rain as well.  This has served us well, so far, and the crops have had a nice bit of rainfall, even if the peak heat of the day chafes those same crops.  On their own with the rain and heat, some Sunflower seeds I planted have came up nearly a meter tall each, though the specimens are crowded and could use a more regular regimen of food and water.

One can look with the usual alarmism at nature, but nature has been somewhat random in the past, with even the largest mightiest rivers said to have frozen and points in antiquity, or the Hanging Gardens of old, residing in what is now desert land.  Or the ancient written record of giant grape bundles in the comparatively barren region of Israel and surroundings.

What was the very Garden of Gethsemane in which Jesus prayed to God, seems now to be a barren plantless crag.

Things change.  The port of Alexandria, along with much of its ancient coastline, underwater today, with people having lived there as late as 800 AD, but again, now underneath the Mediterranean Sea.

Such also, man made wonder of the Inca and Maya, large cities built of stone, that could, themselves, stand the test of time, and yet the builders and administrators falter and their stories are lost in the fog of centuries, their names forgotten, their cities abandoned, and their reasons both lost and forgotten.