THE DWELLING PLACE

How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty,
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and flesh cry out for the Living God.
Psalm 84: 1-2

Here are some of the dwelling places of some of the most beautiful of God's creatures...

Bass, bluegills and bullfrogs...God's creatures.

The swampy backwater...snakes and salamanders...God's creatures.

The tributary stream...sunfish, smallmouths and rockbass...Gods's creatures.

Not big, but beautiful, 10 to 14 inch smallmouth bass make wading in local streams a hoot when the temperatures soar. The Rebel Crayfish catches them all...

The horney-head chub in spawning colors.

The redbreast sunfish guarding a nest.

This is a stunning hybrid, perhaps pumpkinseed X redbreast cross...God knows!

A longeared sunfish with maybe something else...a real beaut!

And how about this fiesty green sunfish...another small stream stunner! Does it have to be big to be a worthy catch?

What a variety of fish, and of beauty, that can be found in a small stream that is but a few miles from my house. The water was clear and the current at ease on the 90 plus degree day that I hopped in. Fish every where, nothing big, but it didn't matter. I was in God's house, on His turf...the Dwelling Place, if you will, of creatures great and small. Without Him, nothing was created. He allowed me to enjoy it, and it didn't have to be anything special other than it was just what He had for me at that particular time...His time.

HOW LOVELY IS YOUR DWELLING PLACE...O LORD ALMIGHTY!