Amazed

 I am amazed every Spring.

 I am amazed by the beauty,

the extraordinary detail

and mostly,

the resilience and reliability

of the season's first flowers.

I am amazed that after months of dry, frozen stasis, fragile stems with soft, fine leaves force their way up through hard, rocky soil.

I am amazed that they emerge tender and innocent to suffer and survive regular dips below freezing and the occasional, late blanket of snow when their parent plants could take only one hard freeze before a withered retreat. 

I am amazed that this happened last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. 

I am amazed that it happened again this year, and will probably happen again next.

But I am, perhaps, most amazed that some believe that this all just 'happened' on its own. By luck, mixed with energy (from somewhere), and lots of time, billions of times over, from some singular, accidentally formed and functioning cell on a spot, on a planet held perfectly in place for time and seasons, without assistance, in a way that supports this incredible variety of life that reproduces itself with very little error.

 Instead of NOTHING becoming SOMETHING becoming BEAUTIFUL and AMAZING,
over and over again,
I am convinced,
certain, awestruck,
inspired, humbled,
and amazed that

SOMEONE who is AWESOME created EVERYTHING and LOVES 

THE CREATION THAT HE MADE.

Including us.