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WONDERS IN FOCUS ead: Job 38:1–18 Bible in a Year: Deuteronomy 28–29; Mark 14:54–72 For from him and through him and for him are all things. Romans 11:36 Some of us are inclined to look at the world and see only what’s wrong. DeWitt Jones is a National Geographic photographer who has used his profession to celebrate what’s right about the world. He waits and watches until a shaft of light or turn of perspective suddenly reveals a wonder that had been there all along. He uses his camera to find beauty in the most common faces of people and nature. If anyone had reason to focus on the wrongs of the world, Job did. After losing all that had given him joy, even his friends became his accusers. Together their voices taunted him for not admitting that he was suffering for sins he was hiding. When Job cried out to the heavens for help, God remained silent. All creation points to God. Finally, from within the chaos of a whirlwind and the darkness of a storm, God asked Job to consider wonders of nature that reflect a wisdom and power far beyond our own (Job 38:2–4). Would He now ask us? What about something as natural as the ways of a dog, cat, fluttering leaf, or blade of grass? Could a shaft of light, or a turn of perspective, reveal—even in our pain—the mind and heart of a Creator who has been with us and for us all along? Father in heaven, we’ve spent too much time thinking only about what is wrong and broken with our world. Please help us to see evidence of Your presence in the wonder of what only You could have done. In the faces of nature there are wonders that never cease. 
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Beautiful, and timely as usual. So far this year, we have had many trials, and I have found myself focusing on them most of the time. Yesterday was no different, except that I took a pause in what I was doing and sat on a chair in our garage doorway. I only intended to do it to make a phone call, but I found myself just sitting there in the sunshine and enjoying the warmth on my face. I realized that I had missed enjoying those little things that God has given us..... when I heard a bird in the pine tree. It was not a birdsong that I was familiar with.... but I could not see the bird. After a few minutes, it flew to a different tree and I could see it. It was a beautiful Blue Jay! I do not ever remember seeing one at my house before, and it was quite a treat. Thank you, Lord for those little beauties of nature that surround us, if we only take time to look at them. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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