hi and welcome to new every day my name is Carrie my name is jen and on spatial we're going to talk about this being nature's french so [Music] mmm and hi everyone thanks for tuning in to do every day we're so glad that you have to bin I know I say it every week but I am so thankful as we're traveling back from the United States back home to Canada and said Carrie do you realize people actually have traveled along with us through this journey and people-watch faithfully and we're just so grateful and if you're new to the show or if you've been watching faithfully for a long time check out our website new everyday TV check out our partners page if you feel that you can support us financially can still make just a possibility then we would so appreciate that there's opportunity to do that on the website to everyday TV so Jen so here we are this is going to be our last installment as far as we know because if we start saying a lot about our trip our last installment about our trip our road trip to Tennessee sometimes you get talking about things you know like you know what that's a whole nother show instead of squeezing it in week and so we our thought is that this is going to be our last installment of our road so that being said I said to carry like what is it that really sort of sticks out to you or you know made some impressions and it's interesting because one of the things that really click with us because you might be saying why don't you go to 10 feet coast and the reason went to Tennessee is basically i had a week holidays and anyone spend a lot of money and buy one on groupon which is a site online that just has hotel deals and i started looking for a cheap hotel i'm like oh there's a cheap hotel which of course we now know from previous experience why i was see why it was cheap there were other occupants there are other occupants that we did not want to share space with I if you're just tuning in for the first time you want to let those occupants where you go back to the first episode and you'll you'll see what what they was closed ocular anyways that being said I a Google bit and it said okay that's in gatlinburg I said well what's in Gatlinburg and it was the Smoky Mountains and I went ha we can go hiking and we just love doing outdoor things I guess one of the reasons why i love being al-qaeda's because that is where i connect with the Lord I just I walk down the road and I hear the birds and their different songs and I see they're different colors and I I hear the chipmunks kettering at each other and I just get really excited about being outside and no i'm not a tree hugger in the sense of I'm not out there twenty-four/seven I enjoy being in nature because I connect with God in nature and so the thought of me spending you know a week outside was actually quite like yeah that's what I want to do and so when I mentioned that to carry she also was like wow and so we wanted to share with you some of the experiences that we had outside and just listening or taking in God's creation and it says that the earth resounds the glory of the Lord and in Romans chapter 1 it talks about that leave it's quite obvious God's power that you see in in nature and so what was one of your I want to say favorite times remember full time outside like times that we spent we were hiking too I believe the theorem Falls and we came across like an ass Cartman there was beautiful mass in the distant and then I heard Eagles I heard them calling I'm looking with you looking and I looked up in there for Eagle circling and yeah it would just reminded me of so many verses that the Lord says that if we trust in him and he will lift us up or rather not for we were walking out the same you'll soar on wings like eagles so that was really meaningful to me I also really appreciate it I'm able to think about God and nature but on the flip side I have noticed that when I'm in cities and concrete jungles of various sizes this is and I'm walking and I'm by myself but with so many people it can also feel isolating and I think about God more in the city really even though I love nature like I would be camping more I could but I do i do think about God when I'm in the city and looking at all people it's different it's different aspects of the games of creation right people are his masterpieces and I can appreciate God when I'm surrounded by different people but also what about in nature what kind of spark this conversation was we were listening to a beauty that we are from the country music hall of fame by Alabama and one of the thumbs has I'm just sitting outside being a friend of nature being matrix man to something like that now that it's really cool yeah and we went on several heights and all of differing various levels of difficulty and the one hike that we went on to was Rainbow Falls that was the first one and it was tough like we hadn't read a sign we just were told yep you should do it and it was uphill both ways is what it felt like like it just was two hours of seats up hill climbing and I'm thinking really this was so hard and yet when we got to the top it was more of a hey done it sounds good like it was good that we got there and what's interesting though is that because the water is so dry our water is not dry well in the land is dry because there's a drought is that it was a wee bit displaying with the most amount of water that was coming over the rocks and we're thinking we just hiked like two hours uphill to see this triple triple triple triple and we're like really love the time for ya and yet on the way up we had these beautiful views and we listened to this chipmunk or squirrel it was just like mattering never nattering mattering it was like you know don't watching where I'm putting lineup so watch me like to watch me and it was like get away wait it was like he mattered at us the entire way there and then we're going back and he starts up again and we're thinking what's wrong with that squirrel huh and we also saw on our way and so actually i speaking what's going through you know the birds heads and what's going through the chipmunks head like what is it and and that god created those creatures like he genuinely cares for the birds clips of his eye is on the sparrow right so if he provides for the sparrow how much more will he provide for us and I was like God loves his creature like he loves us but he also loves inspiration and the Bible says that the earth groans for the day that the Lord will come and redeem it the Covenant of creation starts you know at the very beginning of time in the book Genesis where God made a covenant with his creation saying that he was going to care for and the fact that he put a man eating the garden to steward it to care for it shows that he actually genuinely loves what he has created and wants us to take care of it and that's something that we don't talk about very often right we get we are here and it's like well this is our medium right this is the medium through which we travel is this world we don't actually stopped to look at it and so we're going to go to commercial break and advert on pause here but you're watching the commercial I want you to think about when was the last time you cause in creation and just to fit in so exactly Jeff Weston yella you're building a brand-new beautiful website what are you all right you're terrible actor what this we're acting comes into play oh I don't know what our think you're supposed to act ok building a really cool website are you building a really cool website you need hosting one of the things about a hosting account is you don't want to have limitations put on your website let's sure how much hard drive space you have how many email accounts how many domains can point to it well we've got an amazing deal for you for a very limited time cat five dot TV / dreamhost for just five dollars and a bit of change per month you are going to get unlimited web site hosting 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and yes he had a church family and yet he read his Bible but he he found that he needed to get outside actually to get away from everything and just connect with God through nature and Jesus said it says a Jesus withdrew to a quiet place because I think sometimes and i agree with carrie you can be in the center of a whole bunch of people and feel isolated and create space for God right haha but but you're still isolated in a sense that you are alone even though you're with people right the same is with Jesus when he was drew he's appear to hear God's voice mrs. heat was through to a lonely place where he was true to the mountainside and I feel like we are often so busy that we don't create space to hear God's voice and I I read an article about how being in nature unplugged actually can lower your heart rate and produce healthy like the results are good for you to be I'm in quality good physically good for you outside yeah just to be outside unplugged it was important to be unplugged like turn off the cell phone like just go for a walk and the thing is every time I have made time to go for a walk and I just I feel like the spirit to start speaking to like either he'll drop a song into my heart or you know whatever i've been ruminating on I just fine I start thinking about that and I give it over to the Lord and I have friends that's how they connect to God and we did talk about this as all idea of how can you connect with God and I do connect with God through the word like reading a word and thinking asking questions but also being in nature and one of the things that I've read and I have friends that have been it too is so often we came in on think Oh Lord I'm not connecting with you through you know reading the word or through personal worship well then I encourage you to go for walk and that's okay like just go for a walk and I want to say and open your eyes like it was interesting carrie picked up this little like feather type of plants puppies a month yeah and we're just looking at and going wow god you're so good like you creatives and he didn't discreet one type of moth there are several types of loss yeah on the ground it's like and then their loss on the tree and why did it only grow halfway up the tree and we just got I want to say caught up in God's creation he didn't just create one type of tree because as you walked through the Cedars of Lebanon state park like we would say oh it got really dark it wasn't because of someone behind the tree it was actually because or behind a cloud it was because the tree or a sense of man this horse was so dead and he didn't just make one type of theater these Cedars of Lebanon was like towering above us and then there were oak trees and maple trees and like iron wood and ash and look why did God create you know so many different types of trees like why didn't he just create one and it's because he's enlighten us and sometimes you know he wants us to actually meet with him in creation like I love sometimes you know going on and picking a piece of wheat and then you pull up all of the the heads and you know you say tree or Bush to your voice where she did as a kid but then to actually examine this and the see those little seeds in there and to realize like they're so intricately designed and how much more does God love I and so I just might you know walk through creation like it happened on every single trip like on one we saw while turkey and how cool is that and whether we thought bear we thought yeah which is really cool they call them bear jams in the National carcasses interesting but every time we went for a walk it was like God was there and so I don't know if you have a spot where you can go for a walk or is it that you you just make some quiet time even if you're a totally a people person you go to Starbucks and get a cup of coffee you know and just enjoy being around people but but you are isolating yourself actually hear from the Lord or you know I applaud yeah yeah there were there were trails through the forest that said quiet walking trail I get to encourage people to take why I'm awesome and so we want to encourage you you know as we're sort of we are ending off our road trip we do want to encourage you to take some time for the Lord and i know i will at the beginning of every year I love tape and sometimes halfway through i will be two or three days of this time with the Lord like away from people it's a conscious decision to be a way so I can hear from the Lord or read a book that I feel that you want me to read but it so that I can hear the Lord's voice or spend time in nature so I can be connecting with the Lord and so I encourage you to make some space for the Lord to get out in nature whether it's i want to say the outside kind of nature where there's trees and swamps and forests and flowers and birds or if it's like the urban forest yeah through parks or a bench or something like that yeah and I think this is something that people in general do desire to get away from the busyness of their life I mean we see it every Friday easy summer and every Sunday evening in the summer when people are coming north and we have included that they're driving up to the Muskoka such a beautiful area in Northern Ontario they want to get away yes so there's a desire in us for I want to a wide open spaces and whatever that looks like you but we desire I think wide open spaces because it creates space for God to speak to us both you know whether it's at 10 minutes in your hands wrapped around that hot cup of coffee and just breathing in and breathing out or standing in front of your kitchen window and you know as some of you might have another house and I'm sorry about that but if you love it I'm so happy but just taking that time to breathe in so maybe it's putting up a bird feeder and just watching the birds coming and just taking those that time to pause and that's really what vacation is at least for me is taking that time to Claude fitting new opportunities to connect with God and connect with friends and it's like okay here we run I feel refreshed so we hope that you find times of refreshing in your life that's God is just to renew your pure spirits I want to say I want to be like that jumpstart to the next chapter in your life whatever that might be and it might be a day it might be a week it might be a month might be here sample idea of what is that next chapter but are you pausing long enough distance okay we got ready to go so I'm not knows we're just going to pray for you and why don't we do that now yes Father thank you for today thank you for the creation as you say thank you for making us and allowing us giving us the capacity to actually enjoy it as well and I pray for our viewers got maybe they're going through a special time and they need to get away so you could help them to find that place so they can go and be quiet and lord I pray that you with sweet pictures but in a way yes in a quiet place thank you Jesus for setting the example that you did that you set aside time to go and be quiet and pray the Lord we commend to speak to you and ask the public to do that when cranky I'm just thinking as your brain Carrie I'm feeling the Sun come in on my face and maybe that's all you need is you know in your place of work maybe there's a window with some Sun just go stand there for a minute as you're waiting for the photocopier to run through and just enjoy or if you carry works in an emergency room there's no windows there's no windows though I know I seek out some ambulance bank yeah but this doesn't look at it and photos inside yes so ferocious take time to pause click on o'clock and i'm not know we hope that you have a great week outside doing whatever makes you feel refreshed have enough see you later you