A Wonderful Balance!

The favorite things of fall for me are the smells, the fragrances of earth and leaves, of the soil as it is enriched on the forest floor by fallen trees or leaves decomposing.  As we wander the aroma is heady as Planet Earth creates with the hand of The Ultimate Creator.

   As we pause on this log to catch our breath I begin to think about nature and the fact that we live in a  precisely balanced environment.  The blue sky is blue because of the light refracted by a layer of atmosphere composed of various gases being held in place by gravity, which is created as the earth rotates on its axis.  Left alone the layer of atmosphere  is precisely the right thickness and consistency to protect the earth from almost all things from outer space that are hurtling toward us many times a day.  Interesting how that works out!  
   As we look up into the branches of the trees, we see the leaves swaying and quaking in the breeze.  Trees and plants are living things and they breathe.  They breathe carbon dioxide, which is the by products of our own breathing.  It's interesting how that works out.  We breathe out exactly what the trees and plants need.  But guess what . . . when the trees take in the carbon dioxide they breathe out oxygen.  Exactly what human and animal life needs.  See, people and trees are dependent upon one another.  The natural world is filled with inter-dependencies and it all works like clockwork in a wonderful balance.

   The point is that all this comes together in a way that cannot be thought of as random or accidental.  A Source of positive creative energy that is so far beyond our capacity to grasp exists and it is the creative power behind everything that exists.  That same Source of positive creative energy, what we call God,  put us right in the midst of everything, not just to control it, but to be a part of it.  No matter how hard we human beings try we cannot separate ourselves from God and/or God's creation.  We are created in the image of that Creative Source.  We are, as Wayne Dyer says, "little pieces of God, Divine beings, highly individualistic expressions of God!"
   Isn't it interesting how that works out?
   Namaste!