Nature and sin-nature

I'm not one of those folks who come up with excuses to skip church like, "I can feel worshipful taking a walk in nature," but...

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Today I had to miss church because my wife's back was hurt and I stayed home to help take care of her. At one point I was taking a walk barefoot through my yard headed toward my garden to check things out there. I was actually feeling very worshipful and was praying as I walked. Something along the lines of, "Wow, God. Look at all this great stuff you created. Your creation sure does make your presence clear..." (see Psalm 19)

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and right at that moment I stepped on a thorn!

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"Yeouch!!! Your creation sure does make our sin nature clear too." (Gen 3:17-19)