Mid-week Devotional:

Week of May 24, 2026

This week a plumbing company we know continues to remove all the plumbing under our house and replace it with new piping and fittings that are up to code and are less apt to freeze during the winter. While the plumbers are working on our home during the day my husband and I spend time at a neighbor’s home just down the road from us. Our neighbors are not home this week and have graciously let us stay at their house when we have workers working on our home.

At our neighbor’s home we have a wonderful view of their small lake, the surrounding foliage, all the different birds plus lots of squirrels. It is a perfect place to watch the world outside and write this week’s mid-week devotional. As I gazed out the windows towards the lake, a doe and her fawn walked along the shoreline. The fawn was small and its spots were still visible, so I assume it was very young. The doe would stop every few feet, lift her head, sniff the air and look around her checking to make sure she and her fawn were still safe. The fawn was so busy looking around at the dock, the garage by the lake, and the house on the hill where we were that it appeared to be oblivious to the fact that its mother had moved half-way up the trail towards the house. I watched the doe stop and turn her head back towards her fawn. I assume she made a sound for the fawn quickly moved up the hill and followed her as she walked into the woods.

As I watched the doe and her fawn God gently reminded me that

• I did not create the living world that surrounded me.

• I did not have anything to do with the doe giving birth to her fawn.

• God gently reminded me that I did not create the plants of sweet corn that are growing in our small garden. The genetic makeup within each seed is God’s creation and a gift from God.

The living world that surrounds us reminds us that God creates and we are a part of God’s creation.

Hear the words written in the Old Testament book of Genesis, Genesis 1:24-25.

“24 And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.’ And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.”

This is God’s word for God’s people. Thanks be to God. AMEN.

Today and in the days ahead:

-May you take time to consider the variability that exists within the living world that surrounds you; from the north pole to the south pole, on every continent, within all the bodies of water and within all the different types of soil around the world. Life exists from one-celled organisms to multicellular.

-May you look upon the living world around you with new eyes.

-May you give thanks to God for life.

Peace be with you.

AMEN.