RUSTLE WITH PRAISE
Today's reading: Psalms 96-98
"Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise! Let the fields and their crops burst forth with joy! Let the trees of the forest rustle with praise before the Lord!" Psalm 96:11-12 NLT
Just about every I take a short break from my farm-office duties and walk.
I go out the door of the barn office, and meander my way around any large tractors or implements parked and awaiting their turn to be tuned-up, geared up or torn up in the shop. I walk the gravel drive around the barns. I walk by the pastured cattle. I step by step make it by the horse and donkey residing on the farm.
I walk slowly past the large pine tree. And I always pause to listen to the sound of the wind in its branches.
Until this morning, I never knew how to explain the noise it made--even in the slightest of breezes.
It is the rustle of praise.
Never will I not notice it now.
Never will I forget the words of these verses.
Never will I not pause to praise with it!
