A kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl, who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied "I'm drawing God." The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like." Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied. "They will in a minute."
The little girl had spoken an obvious truth, if we open our eyes we can all see what God looks like, just look at all creation. In all it's wonder and diversity is it not a truly wondrous thing, and as the little girl said, 'you will see God in a minute' by just looking around you. Why should a tree or a butterfly not be, to someone, an image of God? If we truly believe that God created everything then God must be in everything, our ancestors recognised this and so should we. It is only in recent human history that artists have portrayed God as a human-being, perhaps some of the prehistoric cave paintings of animals or 'inhuman-beings' may be nearer to early man's vision of their God!
We are of the essence and Spirit of the creator God; that essence and Spirit is in all things and we know that we know not of it's kindred to us. When we rob the earth we are destroying ourselves and ultimately a part of the creator - for light to prevail, destruction must cease.
Can you see God?
R.E.B
Several years back Daniel awoke from a dream and proceeded to tell us a situation in which Jesus had helped him while he was at play. Curious I asked Daniel, "So what did Jesus look like?". The reply was not what I expected,"Happy" replied Daniel.
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