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Which is the bliss of solitude; is full of God's promises: “Can a mother
And then my heart with pleasure fills, forget the baby at her breast and have no
And dances with the daffodils.” compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget, I will not forget
Don't we feel the same, when we you! See, I have engraved you on the
happen to see something beautiful palms of my hands; your walls are ever
around us? Hence, John Keats, another before Me.” (Isaiah 49:15-16) God never
famous poet in his poem “Endymion” wants us to be unhappy; on the other
says: “A thing of beauty is a hand, He wants us to trust in
joy forever.” His unfailing love, cast our
burdens on Him and listen
God communicates to to His gentle voice echoing
man through nature. Every through nature. John
sight and sound, sense and Masefield, a popular English
smell tell us of God's un- poet thus beautifully sums
conditional love for man- up in his poem “Laugh and
kind. Amidst our chaotic be Merry”:
life on earth, nature serves
“Then God looked over all He had made, and as a source of solace to us;
it gives us joy and assuran-
He saw that it was very good!” (Genesis 1: 31)
ce and silently declares His promise to “Laugh and be merry:
provide for us. Luke 12: 27-28 says: “Look remember, in olden time.
at the lilies and how they grow. They God made Heaven and Earth for joy
don't work or make their clothing, yet He took in a rhyme,
We all marvel at the splendor of As a professor of English Literature, I
God's creation. The glorious sunrise, the mostly teach subjects related to nature, Solomon in all his glory was not dressed Made them, and filled them full with
twittering birds, the smiling flowers, the beauty and love. All of these are gifted to as beautifully as they are. And if God the strong red wine of His mirth
mesmerizing woods, the gentle breeze, us by God and He expects us to cherish cares so wonderfully for flowers that are The splendid joy of the stars:
tides on the seashore, the colored sky these gifts and thank and praise Him here today and thrown into the fire the joy of the earth.
during sunset, the mountains and each day. Whenever I teach a poem or a tomorrow, he will certainly care for you.
valleys… every little thing, great or small literary piece that talks about nature, I Why do you have so little faith?” A So we must laugh and drink from
around us proclaim the magnificence of wonder at the brilliance of God's simple wildflower stands as a testimony the deep blue cup of the sky,
His divine wisdom and creativity. God so creation because every poet talks of how of God's love! When we start worrying Join the jubilant song of the
loved the world that He wanted it to be nature has influenced his life in many about tomorrow, the Bible says: “Look at great stars sweeping by,
crowned with beauty, brimming with ways. William Wordsworth, the much- the birds of the air; they do not sow or Laugh, and battle, and work, and
life. loved British poet in his popular poem “I reap or store away in barns, and yet your drink of the wine outpoured
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” happens to heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not In the dear green earth,
see a meadow filled with beautiful much more valuable than they? Can any the sign of the joy of the Lord.”
yellow daffodils. He admires the beauty one of you by worrying add a single hour
of those flowers and once he goes back to your life?” (Matthew 6: 26-27)
home, he muses on how the sight of
these flowers affect him in a positive When nature trusts the love of God
way. He says: blindly, why don't we humans trust His
“For oft, when on my couch I lie might? Why do we worry, doubt, fret and
In vacant or in pensive mood, fear? He has engraved us in His palm; He Dr. Evangeline Esther David
They flash upon that inward eye collects our tears in His bottle. The Bible Assistant Professor of English, Lady Doak College, Madurai
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