Our Lavish God

 

Wildflowers by the roadside near Valdosta, Georgia.

Is it not by his high superfluousness that we know

Our God? For to equal a need

Is natural, animal, mineral: but to fling

Rainbows over the rain

And beauty above the moon, and secret rainbows

On the domes of deep sea-shells. . .

Not even the weeds. . .multiply without blossom

Nor the birds without music. . .    

                           Robinson Jeffers

Barnyard and flowers, Murray County, Georgia.

Robinson Jeffers was not a Christian. I think he could best be described as a high pantheist. But truth is truth, wherever you find it, and I think Jeffers caught an insight into the lavishly generous nature of God, "who gives us everything richly to enjoy."

                                        More roadside flowers near Valdosta.
 
This post is for Dave Hileman. Check out his blog at www.twolanetouring.com.

Photographs and text copyright 2021, David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday each week unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo

For the glory of God alone