Ernie Cowan writs an Outdoors feature for the San Diego Union-Tribune. He always has an interesting column about the happenings on Mt. Hoo, where they live.
All his studies revolve around nature and its creatures. His latest profiled two bushtit birds—say that word carefully—who found each other and occupied a house he cleaned and repainted for them. Their diet consists of insects and spiders (hooray for eating spiders!). They also sit on the ledge of the Cowan's window and gently peck, awakening the humans inside. Ernie said that "bird scientists" tell him that their pecking is an attack on the reflection in the glass. That may be true, but it doesn't take into consideration the experience a couple in Oceana had. One morning a bird couple began pecking on Katherine and Yevgeny's window. She didn't know why. When she went outside to see, a snake crawled across the patio. Another time she left both patio and house screens open. A bird flew into the house in back and out through the front door. Pretty soon, as if it was bringing a friend, two birds flew in the back and out the front. Ernie said he chose to think of the bushtits as his "connection with nature." That's the call of nature lovers. They find in geography and its creatures what satisfies their sense of belonging. It's a complete misunderstanding of creation. God designed it to serve physical needs of production, agriculture, scenery and seasons. And even our sense of beauty or magnificence. But NOT to give us rest, peace, relaxation and PURPOSE. Isaiah 26:3-4 encourages us to find peace in steadfastly focusing on God. Philippians 4:7 says the "peace of God...guards our hearts and minds." It isn't likely that naturalists will change their view about nature. But their mistake is a mis-use of their soul and an offense against their spirit, made in God's image. Humanity needs to realize that OUR NEXUS with God provides all WE need—the WE being US inside the body. WE belong to God, not to the animal world! And long after creation suffers incineration, with all its creatures, WE will have new bodies in a new heaven and earth in which to PRAISE God as our only HELPER in his NEW CITY!
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