The Voice of Creation

The creation is not silent.  It has a voice.  It is the voice of the shrieking red breasted hawk high in the air, branches cracking in trees, the tearing sound of grass before grazing cows, the unseen owl moving about in the darkness, and the buzzing of a hundred black gnats.  There is actually more to be heard that the ear can hear.  And, of course, there are others voices which the spirit must strain to hear like the rising wind, the silence in the midst of the stillness, and the seed bursting forth from the ground.

 

Jesus understood the voices of the creation.  On one occasion when His antagonists told Him to silence His disciples, he answered, "I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out."  (Luke 19:40).  After ten years of learning to listen to the creation in which the farm lives, it would not surprise me to hear a word from a stone as I have from all sorts of creatures, broken limbs, and things left by those who have walked and worked this land before me.  The earth is indeed the Lord's and every part of it bears the imprint of His creating hands. 

And because every part of it bears the imprint of His creating hands, every part of the creation can become a means of Him making Himself known in the world.  Sometimes the voice is heard by the ears and sometimes it is like the sound of stones and only sensed by the spirit within.  The important thing for us as we live is to be mindful of the surrounding creation, to expect it to express both the presence and the voice of the Creator, and to always be prepared to fall on bended knee in gratitude for the blessings constantly being bestowed upon us.