I am spending a little time outside today – just enjoying creation!  The leaves are changing colors, the sky is a brilliant blue and the sun is warm in the cool and crisp air.  I love to get out and away from everything else.  When I get away I hear and see things that are normally all around me, but that I miss because I am trying to take in to many things at one time.  In this moment I can hear an airplane off in the distance, crows that are really excited about something in the woods, leaves being rustled by a gentle breeze, a squirrel chasing another around and around a pine tree.  And I can see beauty all around me – not the man made kind, but the stuff of God.

Everyday God is saying to you and me:  “I LOVE YOU!”  Our problems is we are just not listening and looking!  I encourage you to take a little time OUTSIDE today and listen for God’s “I LOVE YOU!” to you.  I hope you hear it and and hope that we all take the time to say “I LOVE YOU!” back!