MY PERSPECTIVE –

It’s truly amazing what God can do! I wrote the following piece as an introduction to a photo booklet I created, with uplifting psalms that I found in my Bible. I started work on it after talking to someone on the crisis line – something I did quite often during the years since 2015. On this particular occasion I had left the church that had been my spiritual home for ten years only a few months earlier.

The person I talked to was kind. He listened as I told him how much I wanted to die. Told him some of my story. We talked for quite a while as he tried to help me look at some positive things I could do. And – like I said – in an amazing way God brought me the idea of publishing a little gift book. Which I did, starting work on it immediately after hanging up the phone. It’s amazing how quickly God helped me surface so quickly from the darkness. There have been many times when God helped me out of depression by taking on a new creative project. Amazing what God can do!

The following was the Introduction I wrote for it:

Let all that have breath praise God

Psalm 150:6

Some time ago I passed a bed of springtime flowers, a beautiful splash of color to behold after a long grey winter. I stopped to drink in the sight and couldn’t help but thank God for it. As I did so my heart did something it seldom does. It danced inside me. That’s truly what it felt like. Amazing!

This little book was inspired by that memory and by the last verse of the last chapter of the book of Psalms – Psalm 150:6.

As I read that verse my imagination took off. Let everything praise God. Every living thing! I remembered the bed of flowers that had made my heart dance. And I thought to myself: What if the flowers I admired were praising God as well, thankful for the pleasure to exist, for their color and for the joy of waving in the breeze. If flowers had hearts, perhaps they might be grateful that they’re loved by the gardener who grew them and by all who come to enjoy them.

What if flowers were to sing praises in the way we humans sing praises? What would we hear? What would we sound like if we all, together with those beautiful blooms, were to raise our voices to heaven thanking our great Creator who gave us life?

marja

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