"God's glory is on tour in the skies"

This past Saturday one of the newer girls, Sara, and I decided to go to the beach.  It was the perfect day!  The weather was amazing, the water was warm, and the view was absolutely breathtaking.  We took a teeny tiny dirt road up through villages, dodging donkeys and goats, passing cute little women selling different things, and children screaming “blanc! blanc!” as we drove by.  Living in Haiti definitely has it’s cons.  For example, when we were trying to order food on the beach…in Haiti they usually price things by Haitian Dollars...but there is no such things as a Haitian Dollar.  I think at one point they had them, but now they have gourdes.  So, they told us how much the food was in Haitian Dollars, all we had were gourdes, and it was all in Creole!  So by the end of the super confusing discussion…we ended up paying about 350 gourdes or $10 American (don’t even ask me how many Haitian Dollars! I have no idea) for some fish and boiled plantains.  When we got back to the base and told them how much we paid…everyone just laughed.  You live and you learn I suppose. :)

The beach was perfect in so many ways.  As I was journaling about it last night and looking at pictures, something hit me.  It’s something so obvious, but when you actually sit down and think about it, it’s beautiful! 

God never had to create such extraordinary colors, He never had to give us wonderful fragrances in flowers, He never even had to allow us to hear the sounds of His creation…but He did!  He loves us so much that He made the ocean an incredible masterpiece that astonishes even the most intelligent scientists, He made every beautiful star in the sky at night, and He allows us to enjoy it! We serve a God who is so in love with us.   And He is jealous for our love.  Today, let’s remember who created us, let’s remember how much He loves us, and let’s enjoy the breathtaking masterpiece that He has created for us to see, smell, touch, and hear.

God's glory is on tour in the skies, God-craft on exhibit across the horizon. 
   Madame Day holds classes every morning, 
      Professor Night lectures each evening. 
 Their words aren't heard, 
      their voices aren't recorded, 
   But their silence fills the earth: 
      unspoken truth is spoken everywhere. 

God makes a huge dome 
      for the sun—a superdome! 
   The morning sun's a new husband 
      leaping from his honeymoon bed, 
   The daybreaking sun an athlete 
      racing to the tape. 
That's how God's Word vaults across the skies 
      from sunrise to sunset, 
   Melting ice, scorching deserts, 
      warming hearts to faith. 

                                                                                                                       PSALM 19.