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WAREHAM UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

God's Beauty

Dear Friends,

I expect some of you know theses lines:

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare ?
(Leisure)

They are by W. H .Davies, the traveller / poet, and extol the
beauties of the created world; if only we would stop and look
sometimes. Another poet, the Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins
delighted in the uniqueness and pattern of created things :

Glory be to God for dappled things
(Pied Beauty)

You don't have to be a poet to appreciate God's wonderful creation.
Here in Dorset we have so much natural beauty, but nature pushes
through even in a big city. Since covid especially, many people
have a renewed love of trees, plants, birds and the whole wealth of
creation. We know now how necessary nature is for our mental and
physical health.

We can love nature, but we must also takes steps to preserve it,
before global warming takes the very thing which keeps us alive.

Every blessing

Janet

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