Webs

"Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them." Psalm 111:2

On one of my nature walks I saw a large spider web with a perfect circle in the center the size of a CD. The circle was woven more tightly than the rest of the web and, with the sunlight reflecting off it, it looked like a silver disk. Amazing. When I returned the next day, it was gone.

For three days in a row there was leaf suspended about 4 foot off the ground as if by magic over the center of one of the paths. It was a small, yellow elm leaf that spun in the breeze. It was held up by a single strand of a spider's web off a branch several feet above it. Some spider must have felt a need to suspend a leaf from a tree like and ornament. He probably didn't catch many bugs that way.

Spiders are yucky but their webs, from a distance, can be interesting. I did not set out those days thinking, "I'm going to go out and look at spider webs." That would have made me feel creepy before I even started. I was open to seeing beauty and interesting things wherever I found them. When we are open, it is possible to see the hand of God wherever we look.