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Monday, April 1, 2024
I saw this saying on a memorial bench in Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, BC: “The patterns of life are not accidental; there is design and purpose in everything.”
I don’t know if these were words this lady came up with on her own or if they were said by someone else. Whichever it is, I really like them and I think that having them on a bench in a garden is wonderful because a garden is a great illustration of design and purpose.
It coincides with or is maybe based on the first verse found in Genesis: In the beginning God created the sky and the earth. (NCV) The first five words of this sentence explain our very existence and explain so much about the natural world around us.
If we continue reading on in Genesis, we see that things did not remain perfect in the first garden but all we have to do is to look around us to see remnants of that initial perfection.
We also have hope of a new heaven and a new earth at some point in the future.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and there was no sea anymore. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It was prepared like a bride dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Now God’s presence is with people, and he will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them and will be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death, sadness, crying, or pain, because all the old ways are gone.” Revelation 21:1-4 (NCV)