After nearly three months, we had an opportunity to spend time with our grandkids, ages four and two. They were kind enough to bring their parents with them when they came to visit.

The four of them have been staying at home – Mom and Dad teaching online, as well as homeschooling their kids, since daycare has been closed. They were ready for a break!

Every evening while they were here, Will would sit on the back porch and look to the sky to find the moon. There was joy in his voice and a glimmer in his eyes when he found the moon high above, “I see the moooon!”

Sometimes it takes a child to remind me of the wonder of God’s creation.

The psalmist opens our eyes to see the wonder of God’s creation.

“When I look to your heavens, the work of your fingers…”

Psalm 8 awakens my imagination in seeing the splendor of God’s handiwork.

How majestic is God’s name. How wonderful is God’s creation.

The hymn writer put it this way:

For the beauty of the earth,

For the beauty of the skies,

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies,

Lord of all, to thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the beauty of each hour

Of the day and of the night,

Hill and vale, and tree and flow’r,

Sun and moon, and stars of light,

Lord of all, to thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Friends on earth, and friends above,

For all gentle thoughts and mild,

Lord of all, to thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise.

Text: Folliott S. Pierpoint, 1835–1917

Open your eyes. What do you see? How do you put the wonder of creation into words? Have you taken time to thank God for all you see?

Let us pray:  

Psalm 8

¹ O Lord, our Sovereign,

    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

²     Out of the mouths of babes and infants

you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,

    to silence the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

    the moon and the stars that you have established;

⁴ what are human beings that you are mindful of them,

    mortals that you care for them?

⁵ Yet you have made them a little lower than God,

    and crowned them with glory and honor.

⁶ You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;

    you have put all things under their feet,

⁷ all sheep and oxen,

    and also the beasts of the field,

⁸ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,

    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Sovereign,

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