2384) In the last couple of years, I have taken up watercolor painting. I’m not very good at it, but the exhilaration of creating something with paint is enough to keep going.

Each little painting I have kept until the stack was taking up too much room. I knew it was time to purge. I looked at my work and often shook my head, thinking they looked like something a little kid would paint, full of errors and accidents.

That same day, I was sitting on the sofa reading when my four-legged companion jumped up and joined me. Cayce rested his chin on my thigh and looked at me with complete adoration.

All I could think of was, what a wonderful gift God has given me in this beautiful animal. This animal isn’t an accident; merely the result of random evolution, nor am I.

Romans 1:20 tells us we can see God’s fingerprint in all of nature. A beautiful sunset. A snowflake examined. A beach with waves washing the sand.

These things are not the result of an accident, and Paul reminds us that even those who have never heard the plan of salvation because of Jesus’ sacrificial death can see there is a creator behind everything. Nature isn’t something to be worshipped, but it’s a blueprint to part of who God is.