The first fruits of his creatures

My apple trees have awakened, adorned in a wash of white blossoms.

I have already mentioned the asparagus that have faithfully come up from the black ground.

Before I left last week to drive my son and his stuff in a U-haul from Texas to California, the path to my shed was all pebbles and dirt. When I came back, young grass about six inches tall covered the area.

This time of the year we are reminded of how the earth is full of life.

Those apple blossoms make me want to freeze time, because I know next week the beauty will not be there. But of course time cannot be frozen. The best we can do is to take pictures, or perhaps to draw pictures, in our attempt to freeze time.

Kodak might give us moments to freeze – Kodak moments. But Kodak can’t give us life, an earth teeming with life. Beautiful life.

The whole thing seems so extravagant. How does “survival of the fittest” explain those blossoms? To survive is one thing. To be beautiful is quite another.

Beauty is not about surviving. It is about being generous while you do. So God must be beautifully generous. He must be to explain all of this.

And then it says that by the same Word that created all of this, we are a kind of first fruits of all his creatures.

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James 1.17-18 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.