Nature

Emerson is amazing. I truly enjoyed reading "Nature". It was beautiful and insightful. My favorite part is Beauty Part 2. "The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection." Nature has always pointed back to God for me, and that has only grown as I've dug deeper into nature through my science classes. The planning, thought process, and creativity that is evident in His creation flabbergasts me. Have you ever looked at a plant cell? What about the various metabolic processes? Or how when our RNA attaches to ribosomes for translation, it's 60/40, but a virus is always different so antibiotics can attack it? Those are only a few examples, but every day in science my God is more evident and more amazing. This is one reason I love my major. I actually cannot wait to dig deeper into the human anatomy! 

I also really loved part one of Beauty, "The influence of the forms and actions in nature, is so needful to man..." Nature is such an essential part of our lives, and it's so easy to over look it, to take advantage of the beautiful masterpiece surrounding us. Emerson goes into detail of how the rain helps the seed and the wind carries the seed, and so on. It's a beautiful picture of God's planning. Everything has a purpose, and it just amazes me how He planned everything out to the microscopic level for thousands of years! I struggle to plan my schedule fore the next two years. It's crazy and unfathomable at times, but isn't that what makes our God so awesome? 
P.S. I commented on Claire's!