Gadzooks! a Post!!!

So this weekend I went canoeing down a lake crawling with alligators (this is JChoc by the way). It was amazing. It was scary (I wasn’t kidding about the alligators, we counted at least eight). It was beautiful. It was silent. It was eye-opening.

Finally getting to have an intellectual conversation and a discussion on what God is like makes this come a lot easier and picks up right where things left off. =) One thing that I love about how God is is that He makes nature. I really can’t handle how beautiful He has made the earth. How do you not look at the graceful egret taking off for flight and not think, there’s got to be more than random stuff and a directionless mixture to make something beautiful? The water below was clean and dark, green and blue with turquoise running through it like a play on colors that only One intimate with the color blue could express. Of course, below that blue were many feet of deep water that I could sink in. That’s not too exciting, but after ignoring that, I could look over the side and watch the ferns and fallen trees grow underwater fronds which swayed in the liquid breeze, like an upside down reality.

Dude, can you tell I like nature?

Yup, it’s one of my favorites. I could lay in it for hours. Just lay in the grass and listen to animals go about their day without even a thought of the human body taking up space. Like Jesus says, the lilies neither toil nor spin, and neither do any of His other animal creations. They just kinda go. Ever try to misdirect an ant? Sure it gets confused, but once it gets their bearings, it keeps going. How do you think that little dude gets his focus? From his Creator who takes care of him.

But sorry, back to the river with the alligators (there were some that were pretty huge. They’re so quiescent –GRE word!- that you can’t tell if they’re a log or not until you accidentally get too uncomfortably close) Sorry again! River. Alligators. Weekend. Yes, okay. So, while I’m paddling with my buds, I got to thinking about certain things. I guess it's same-ole, same ole, but ahwell.

Either way, it was good fun on the river.

J-J-Jaychoc!!