God's Creation is a Great Way to Learn

        The weather has been crazy where I live here in AR but it has been warm and beautiful for the past 2 days. I can't wait for Spring and Summer to come. So excited! Just praying for no more snow this month. :) Beautiful days are such a great reminder of God's Creation and what He can do through it. There are a lot of things God can do with His Creation and I'm not just talking about different designs of clouds and sunsets. I'm talking about personally to people and children.
         I'm a big believer in getting the children outdoors in anyway you can whether it be walking down the street or in woods to hunting or camping. Most people that know me a little wouldn't think I grew up in the outdoors but if you get to know me more and more hopefully you would see that I did grow up in the outdoors. For me, I love outdoor time (aka recess) at work because the children get their energy out but at the same time they seem to be a lot calmer afterwards.
         Growing up in the outdoors was so much fun! I would take walks in the woods, swim in a pond, play in the mud puddles and swing set in my backyard, and camp and fish out in the mountains (aka Rocky Mountains, not these Ozark Mountains, big difference :) ) every summer with my family. I would also help with the garden every Spring. I would grow my own little Sunflower house in the corner of the garden. Never really was tall enough to be a house but it was fun to watch grow.
          I grew up on a farm for the first 4 years of my life in SW Missouri gathering eggs and trying to milk the cows. I would ride in a truck to help deliver the milk and eggs to other people. Then every summer after that for a week until my high school years. I was dumb enough to let that part of my life go and I never should have. That is where I would swim in the pond was on that farm. Yes, I'm a country girl at heart. I was blessed to have parents that loved the outdoors whether it was to go fishing or just to see and listen to the birds while walking outside.
          I was in FFA all four years of high school and we were in the green house most of the time. Didn't do a project because I didn't live where I could do a project or so I thought but now that I look back on it I could have done something.
          God makes all the beautiful things that we enjoy like the sunsets and flowers and yes even the snow. Have you ever thought about what it does on the inside for a person? Have you ever thought how calm you are if you are outside more? How spiritually close do you feel to God more then anywhere else? You are around His Wonders every time you are outside. How can you not see that? You and children can learn a lot about life outside. You can learn the stages of life, how to have good self-esteem, how to handle different situations, and even how to care for yourself and others.  Whether you look at animals or plants or just the different things you can do outside, you can learn a lot about your life and how it is made. To me, it would be the easiest way to teach children about life.
            LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: "God made the outdoors for us to live in at first going way back to Adam and Eve but they sinned so they had to be casted out of the garden to live in a house." If you look at it that way, does it make outdoors look totally different to you?