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Enjoying nature alone

Enjoying nature alone

Posted by fotabug on February 27, 2009 at 12:36 AM

I have given thought to the enjoyment I get from being alone out in nature, walking local nature trails and parks, exploring mountain trails and scenery, visiting lakes and waterfalls, as well as all of the wildlife I get to see.  Being out there alone with my thoughts gives me opportunity to see myself as I really am, a mere mortal, insignificant in all of this wondrous beauty and design.  Humility is a noble quality. 

 

Experiencing what the earth has to offer first hand, with my own eyes, teaches me a lot more than can other lowly men who may not have learned humility and arrogantly expect my acceptance of their unfounded theories and assertions.  There is no way that I can ignore the abundant evidence that I can see.  Everywhere I look there are evidences that the earth was made for mankind.  It has everything we need and could not have come about by accident,  I cannot intelligently accept any other conclusion than the earth was created.. 

 

If one considers all of the circumstances that have to be just right for us to exist here and the cycles in motion and laws that set bounds for everything, how could they refuse to believe in a Creator?  Everything that humans do today is done in conformity to these laws.  There could be no space exploration without depending on such laws.  And once humans leave the earth, they must compensate for what they will lack by providing artificial means.  Doubters have only to defy the law of gravity or the requirement to breathe to learn that we cannot escape them.  Yet, we do what might be considered more serious harm by ignoring the Lawmaker.  A wise person once said, : "Of course, every house is constructed by someone, but he that constructed all things is God."   This is in keeping with another inescapable law - the natural law of cause and effect. When we observe an effect, we accept that there must be a cause.

 

Getting out and enjoying nature benefits me in a number of ways, primarily by making me use my intelligence and thinking about life and its purpose.  Thus the spiritual benefits are invaluable.  It is also true that it benefits me physically and emotionally.  Being diabetic I need regular exercise to keep sugar levels down.  Exercise does that for me, plus it also helps me emotionally, keeping my outlook positive and forward looking.

 

So, this might help you to understand why I need to keep going, enjoying my photo shoots and communing with nature.

 

Vern

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