“Everything is beautiful in its own way, like a starry summer night or a snow-covered winter’s day!” as the old Ray Stevens song goes. It’s inspiring to watch God’s beautiful creation and creatures from the window, to see how well organized the Lord’s creation is, how peaceful and beautiful. It helps you trust in Him. When we realize what good care God takes of all His creation, you know He’ll take good care of you too.

Two swallows are sitting side by side on a wire outside my window. They must have a nest nearby. It’s wonderful how the Lord takes care of them and how they help take care of themselves. We don’t do a thing for them. All we do is admire them from a distance. They feed themselves and take care of their babies, they build their own nests, and they help us by doing a good job of eating as many bugs as they can. And they’re very clever, acrobatic fliers. It amazes me how they can fly at full speed through a tiny hole or crack and into their nests.

It’s also wonderful to be able to look up and see the sky. Everything going on up there is God’s doing—the clouds and the air currents and the changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure that cause the clouds to form and flow and eventually empty to revive the earth, the birds in flight, the sun by day, and the moon and the stars by night—so many wonders of God’s creation are in the sky, and very few of man’s. Airplanes are like intruders into God’s space.

Have you ever noticed how sometimes doves will drop out one by one from flight? One or two of the younger or weaker ones will drop out when it gets to be a little too much for them. Then, as though on a given signal, they’ll all swoop low and flutter their wings and come to rest together on a roof or wire.

God’s creation continually amazes me! The view out my window is like a magnet that draws me to it! It’s so attractive, I can hardly leave it!

Watch the doves circling beautifully. You can tell they’re really enjoying that. They’re all enjoying living, so why shouldn’t we? That’s the way God intended for us to live, like those doves, happy and carefree as we enjoy God’s creation and each others’ company.