Today I watched a slow motion video of a cheetah running after a lure. I was amazed at the beauty of the cheetah's muscles flexing under its skin, and the grace of its extending and contracting body and legs. When I see things like that I want to lift up my arms and praise God for the beauty of His creation. How blessed I am to have the gift of faith, which allows me to really appreciate the Maker in the midst of His makings!
I also saw a 16 year old sea otter who has been taught to play basketball in order to help minimize the effects of arthritis on his elbows. One of the most beautiful aspects of Creation is some people's love of animals. So often I focus on the sorrows, such as abuse of animals, children, women, minorities, etc. In reality, the positive and beautiful are so much more common than the negative and evil. It's like my favorite statistic that 95% of what we worry about never comes true. I'm not saying that evil doesn't exist, I'm just saying that it's not as common as the devil would love to have us think. Bad things do happen to good people, but good things happen so much more frequently. And good things happen even to bad people. God's mercy is so strong and prevalent. As He says, His punishment is to the 3rd and 4th generation, but His mercy is to the 1000th generation.
For today, I want my focus to be on what's right in the world. There's just so much good out there. Why am I not praising God every moment?
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