The Mind of the Creator

Our Lady and the English Martyrs

Cambridge, England

I'm posting the above photo for InSPIREd Sunday, but all week, especially with the beauty all around me in this most lovely month of May, how can I not think of God and what a loving and generous Creator he is - who gave us color and fragrance and texture and warmth (okay, maybe not Saturday) and water and green grass and such variety and beauty in plant and animal life. And that's just the beginning, of course, for he made ears to hear beautiful music and the laughter of our grandchildren, taste buds to enjoy delicious asparagus and strawberries, eyes to behold the beauty of his world, and a mind to contemplate and worship Him.

Contemplating the mind of the Creator always drives me to awe, gratitude, and worship.

    
 The LORD questions Job:
from Job, chapter 38:

 "I will question you, and you make it known to me.  
 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
    Tell me, if you have understanding. 
 Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
    Or who stretched the line upon it? 
 On what were its bases sunk,
    or who laid its cornerstone, 
 when the morning stars sang together
    and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

 Or who shut in the sea with doors
    when it burst out from the womb, 

 when I made clouds its garment
    and thick darkness its swaddling band, 

 and prescribed limits for it
    and set bars and doors, 

 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
    and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?

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Just when I start to think it's all about me,

Job chapters 38-42 quickly remind me that

it's all about God.

Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
    let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

Psalm 95:6

Have a blessed Lord's Day, friends!

Linking to Stephanie's Roses of Inspiration

Coon Prairie Cemetery and What's Blooming

1. I'm trying to come up with divisions of 5 in this post for Five on Friday. Why isn't this easy for me?? I think I just take way too many pictures. But I'm going to start with this Lutheran church in the countryside outside Westby, Wisconsin. Mr. C's ancestors are buried there, so we like to stop out there when we're in the area. I know I've posted about this church before, but hopefully it was a while ago. It is such a pretty church and cemetery.

 Entrance to the cemetery

It's not easy finding some of the names because many stones are flat on the ground and easy to miss.  But they're all interesting. I'd hate to be the person who has to mow that cemetery. I'd buy a couple goats. Goats are nice. I don't think that would be disrespectful. It would feed the goats and keep the cemetery tidy. Especially if the goats wore diapers. Just a thought.

 West entrance door and window

I wasn't going to post this photo because of the name on the stone, but I guess anyone can find out our surname anyway, so...  This photo was taken when the family was in the area to attend Mr. C.'s cousin's funeral (the one whose house we're still working on...). It was wonderful to have our son and some of the grandkids with us.

2. It's what's blooming at our house. Daffodils and the flowering crab. Not included in the photo is our poor old McIntosh apple tree which seems to have quite a few blossoms on it, in spite of its near-death experience a couple winters ago. A hard frost is forecasted for during the next week I think, and if we get it, there will be no apples on our tree this year. It's way too big to cover with a cloth for protection.

 August 2011. It was LOADED with apples.

3.

Reminds me of the old movie, 'Witness.'

 Amish country, Wisconsin

 I think the above photo speaks for itself. I loved catching the sign and wagon in the same shot. :-)

4. More Wisconsin countryside. I wish I had better definition on this photo, and I probably would have if I'd ever learned all the wonders of my old PaintShopPro program. The yellow is mustard, a plant every farmer dreads finding in abundance in his fields. Something about this shot makes me think of Willa Cather stories. 

5. My nod to Anglophile Friday, which I have been neglecting lately. I have many more photos of Canterbury Cathedral, starting with this post.

Canterbury Cathedral, Buttresses

1 D.  I have to put this photo in here, at the end of the post. I took it at sundown, when we were back at the Coon Prairie Cemetery and finally found Grandpa Roy's grave stone. This time we took note of landmarks which will help us locate it another time. Unless the two tall cedars go down in a tornado. Then we're in trouble.

Coon Prairie Cemetery at Sunset

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