“Nature is but a name for an effect, whose cause is God.” -William Cowper
I grew up on my family’s farm in rural Ohio, spending more time outdoors than indoors most days. I knew the land so well I could find my way around the hundreds of acres my family farmed even in the dark of midnight. My childhood was spent building forts out of saplings, swimming in the pond, and digging my toes into the warm, silky soil during Planting Season. I watched sunrises and sunsets and talked about how so very good God must be to create a world as beautiful as this.
It was as if the earth of Psalm 96 was coming alive right before my eyes:
. . . let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy; they will sing before the LORD . . . [Psalm 96:12-13b, NIV]
I somehow instinctively knew it: God’s creation makes us happier.
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Bailey Welch-Pomerantz 