February in Florida
Florida in February.
We. Love. It.
Warm and sunny. In February.
Shirley and I, along with another couple, spent Sunday afternoon after church hiking in a park in Port Charlotte. In February. In Florida.
Our time outside in nature was so…calming, so therapeutic.
Our world today is so different from much of human history. In the past, people spent the vast majority of time outdoors. Today, people tend to spend exorbitant amounts of time indoors. Away from nature. Cloistered away from creation.
Nature Yourself Calm?
Our sedentary, indoors lifestyle is probably one reason why a phrase like “nature yourself calm” seems odd. Perhaps even seems “new age.”
It is actually “old age.”
It is actually counsel from Jesus.
In His Sermon on the Mount—preached in nature—Jesus addressed the opposite of calm—worry, anxiety, stress, fear.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?” (Matthew 6:25).
Jesus’s first century followers, just like us, worry. We are concerned with life, health, the future, what people think of us, how the medical test result
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