Pay Attention

There is book that came out recently called Wonderstruck.  I haven't read it...yet.  However, as I understand the premise, author Margaret Feinburg, calls us to get unstuck from our normal routines and busy life and pay attention to the splendor and delight of God's creation that is around us every day to be Wonderstruck.

This book came to mind last Saturday morning as I was sitting at the kitchen table waiting for the next round of pancakes.  I was looking out the window and noticed a squirrel scampering up a very tall tree in our neighbor’s back yard.  He (or she I guess) was climbing up to get to its nest in the very top branches.

Now with all the leaves gone, that squirrel nest is pretty easy to spot.  But it dawned on me – because I have picked up so many broken twigs and branches over the years –  that I've never seen a squirrel nest blown out of a tree.  Never.

For many years, I've seen those branches in my neighbor’s tree sway back and forth during storms.  If you were a squirrel in that nest during some of those storms, I’m sure those rides at Valley Fair may seem pretty tame.  Yet, somehow God put it "in" a squirrel to be able to build a nest so well –  so embedded into the branches of a tree –  that they just stay put.  No matter how hard the wind blows, the nest stays.

I was "Wonderstruck  (by Gods creation) while having pancakes on a Saturday morning.  So slow down.  Pay attention.  Be wonderstruck by our great God.

SDG