An interesting thing began to happen on many of my early morning walks—God began to speak divine messages to my heart while I stood and watched in awe His creation. All that He has created around us is for more than just our personal enjoyment and the beholding of its beauty. It is also for revealing His glory, His righteousness and His presence as He teaches us about ourselves and about our relationship with Him. Throughout the Bible, He uses simple things around us to bring understanding to us about spiritual truths at a level where we can understand. From each breathtaking moment that some may take for granted, God is yet speaking about who He is. In my book He has used my admiration for His heavens and His earth and some of own personal life experiences and observation about nature's ability to reveal man's disposition and also to make known divine principles, to write this book. When several of my friends saw the many green plants I have in and around my home, they told me they understood why God would choose me to be one He would speak to by using nature. Nature points to God, God points to His Son, and His Son points back to the Father because God is after the heart. "For with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation" (Ro. 10:10). My book is a heart book and one that I believe you will enjoy.

Initially, when I began writing this book, I thought I had a collection of poems. It would be a few years later that God would begin to use friends to nudge me about writing a book. At first I didn’t move because I didn’t think I could write a book, but when I did move, God moved again as well. He impressed upon my heart to write a special message or a personal story for each inspired poem. I believe I figured out later why He inspired me to write each poem because He had a story that He wanted me to tell. God is a Poet and an Author and He had me include both styles of writing in my book—prose and poetic form. Some of my stories will teach while others simply reach out to heal. And then there are some that draw the reader into adoration and praise for the One who created it all. As a poet, I am reminded that the Book of Job and the next four books of the Bible including Lamentations fall into the category of poetry. As a student of the Bible, if someone would have told me that I would end up writing a book involving God’s creation, I would have shook my head, “No,” because I didn’t know a thing about creation back then from a spiritual perspective and still don’t know a lot, but yet God used me to write this book. And if I would have told anyone growing spiritually with me back then that I was writing a book which entailed nature, they probably would have wondered—now how did that happen? When I look back, I see that God plants a seed in us, a tiny spark of His desire for our lives, and then He waters it and allows it to grow. He takes note of our desires, our hopes, our experiences both good and bad, and our growth and then He weaves a life story—His story that is, because He is always the real author of any inspired work. In the beginning God created creation. That’s where it all began. And that’s where my book begins, too, and it ends in praise for His Holy Name. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!

According to Romans 1:20 God is revealing His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature to us. From the very moment we step outside and behold His glory, He is saying through His creation, “I fashioned all that you see.” The raging waters proclaim His power, the majestic mountains proclaim His splendor, the calmness of the wind proclaims His peace, and the heavens declare His glory (Psalm 19:1). Creation invites us to be still and to commune with the heart of God and that's what you'll see in my book. Used by God in the salvation of man, to describe man's attitudes and behaviors and to bring spiritual principles to light for our understanding, creation does a marvelous job of glorying God.

You know—some time ago, a friend of mine told me that she heard Dr. Charles Stanley say--“We must become people who habitually look for evidence of God’s nearness. We can look for it in creation. . . .” God has interwoven creation on the pages of the oldest and most profound book known to man—The Bible. With all that said go ahead now--take a moment and breathe in the beauty and serenity of nature’s splendor that lies around you and take note of God’s presence, then begin a journey with me to learn from it, as well. Enjoy my book! You can purchase my book on my website and also at: