spring?

the weather here has been unbelievable. it's been sunny and 75º (that's about 24ºc for you non-americanos), and we haven't even been bothered by the ash from mt st helens' eruption. i guess it all blew the other way. the rain is supposed to return the end of next week, but for now it's bliss.

i need to get a camera. i feel a sense of loss as i see the amazing beauty around me with no way to capture what i'm seeing. i just want so badly to share what i see, and for people to see how beautifully God painted the sky, or how lovingly He placed each blossom. i want them to know how much He loves to see us marvel at what He made.

every time i see a breath-taking sunset, a rose, a tree, the stars, the ocean, i always think about how God knew, from before there was time, that i would be right in that spot right then seeing whatever it was that caught my eye. When He made the first birch tree that spread seed to grow trees that would spread their seeds for thousands of years, He programmed it to make the very tree i admired, the vary way i admired it, and He was thinking "sheena's really going to like this one!". every sunset He paints above me He thinks, "she'll really like this one. i'll make this bit a little redder and that bit a little pinker...she'll love that!". what a beautiful God.