Pratts Falls

This past Saturday, we took advantage of a few hours when it wasn't raining and went to Pratt's Falls, a beautiful park just 30 minutes away. It reminded us a lot of the Smokey Mountains and we're both still amazed that there are beautiful places like this so close to home. No offense to dear old Jackson, but natural beauty seemed a little harder to come by there. But then there's also the possibility that being in a new place makes us pay attention to what's around us and appreciate it rather than being so absorbed in the minutiae of life.

As we were standing and enjoying the view of the falls, it struck me that just a few weeks ago, we were visiting Niagara Falls. Though the two places are so very different, they are both, in the end, simply scenes of water falling over rocks. Simple, yet so beautiful! What an amazing Creator God we have! And if He has made everything that we see around us - and made it not just functional but beautiful - how can I but trust Him with every detail of my life?

"By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness,
O God of our salvation,
the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas;
the one who by his strength established the mountains
being girded with might;
who stills the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves,
the tumult of the peoples,
so that those who dwell at the ends of
the earth are in awe at your signs.
You make the going out of the morning
and the evening to shout for joy."

Psalm 65:5-8