The Spacious Place
One inside.
One in nature.
Neither formed by hands
of any person…alive or passed.
Both protected by infinite unending power,
the spacious place is safe…forever.
Feel the spacious place,
find one model outside.
View infinity there.
Discover peace, joy and beauty.
This model is no accident,
a carefully created planet…
our earthly home.
The second spacious place…
found inside.
The human soul, the second place.
Left to self, humans clutter, crowd, fill the spacious inner place…
with anger, bitterness, fear, and doubt.
Welcome God to your spacious place.
Just a word…He enters…
And sets our feet on a spacious place.
You have not given me into the hands of the enemy
but have set my feet in a spacious place. Psalm 31:8
The “outside spacious place is memorable. The outside place is not mundane. Experiences like this “sun dog” (formed by ice crystals in cold air) etch themselves in memory. God made both: natural beauty and our memories…they fit together like hand in glove.
The outside spacious place has color, form, and life. It stimulates the inside spacious place, our eternal souls with reminders that God loves us, that He is powerful, that we are in His care. This Mallard pair rested comfortably on the edge of river ice. God feeds them, “clothes” them with downy feathers for cold protection.
My inner spacious place…made by God is strengthened as a witness how He protects waterfowl in extreme cold. The beauty of their winter day resting blesses me…and I hope you too!
My camera tripod was 75 feet from this resting flock of Canada Geese. The air temperature was about 5 degrees above zero…the north wind was steady at 15-20 mph. My hands were freezing within 5 minutes. I left. The geese remained. Notice two things about this photo: there is always one bird on the watch for the flock. Do you see it? Second, it is cold…notice the frost the backs of the birds? Think of it…frost through layers of thick down feathers. This photo shows us God’s “spacious place” called earth. He made it for us. He put our feet in this spacious place. That’s such a wonderful thought.
The iridescent heads of drake Mallards are beautiful any time of year.