Under Open Skies

First off, I LOVE this song, it has been one of my favorites since I first started going to church. Why? I think it's the simplicity of the song "Praise Him under open skies, Everything breathing praising God, In the company of all who love the King, Let us dance, let us sing, It could be heavenly, Turn the music loud and sing" Ahhh, so beautiful. But the reason I posted this song goes back a little ways to when I was in Alabama. I was standing surrounded by enormous piles of mashed and twisted trees, bricks that had been tossed like a loafs of bread, and personal belongings were laying around me like the house was a snowglobe and was shook violently, and all my tiny dark brown eyes could focus on was the vast sparkling clear blue sky. Sometimes I think we take the beauty God created around us for granted, when was the last time you stopped and seriously stopped and looked around you? I remember standing there thinking how clear the sky was and how dark and cloudy it was in Wichita and how vast the sky was and how it is able to be completely packed of clouds in one place and so clear somewhere else, and how that was part of God's plan. - Step outside today and look around you and thank God for all he made.