God’s Small World
God made a tiny, shiny world in blades of grass and flowers,
Where crickets creep and spiders spin and dewdrops fall in showers.
And in this small, this crawly world are secrets and surprises.
The caterpillars creeping here wear summertime disguises.
No one but God could think of it; I don’t know how or why
The caterpillar soon becomes a lovely butterfly.
–Blanche Day Manos
Children have a way of noticing small things. Maybe that’s because they are a lot closer to the ground than we adults are. When my son was little, he amazed me at the number of interesting things he found between house and car when we started to go somewhere. A pretty rock, an ant, a spider; he noticed them all. And of course, I had to come and admire his discovery. So several minutes passed between going out of the house and getting into the car.
“And God made…every thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:25). To really appreciate those little creeping things, we have to get down close to the earth and look for them. Although we see them, do they see us? Is all they know of humans the hand or foot or whatever they see or feel?
God’s world, whether it is the small world of insects and flowers or the large world of trees, mountains, people and sunsets, is fascinating, beautiful, and intricate. Everything is balanced. Everything works in accordance with a master plan. I don’t know how it works; that is a mystery known only to our Creator.
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