Goodness

It's my two favorite trees again, this time from a different angle. I took this picture last Wednesday, which was one day before our wind storm which blew all the leaves down. It really looks like the season has changed here now and color like what's in this picture is but a memory. All the glorious fall colors made me think of something I had read on God's goodness, and I wanted to share some of it.

"...God has not only given us senses but that which gratifies them; and this too reveals His goodness. The earth might have been as fertile as it is without its surface being so delightfully variegated. Our physical lives could have been sustained without beautiful flowers to regale our eyes with their colors, and our nostrils with their sweet perfumes. We might have walked the fields without our ears being saluted by the music of the birds. Whence, then, this loveliness, this charm so freely diffused over the face of nature? Verily, 'The tender mercies of the Lord are over all His works' (Psa. 145:9)." (Arthur W. Pink)