We took a drive through the National Arboretum yesterday on my day off. We oohhed and aahhed at trees while the kids rode their bikes and big wheel.

Don’t know why, but I’m thanking God for colors today! The combinations of red and yellow and orange leaves were absolutely spectacular!

When was the last time you thanked God for the seven million cones in your retina that enable you to see approximately seven million different colors? While you’re at it, on behalf of your shins, go ahead and thank Him for the one hundred and twenty million rods in your retina that give you night vision.

We take color for granted, but it is such an amazing gift from God. I have a little book, Children’s Letters to God. One of my favorites is: “Dear God, I didn’t think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday. That was cool.”

Just thanking God for fall colors.

By the way, I think part of the glorified body deal when we get to heaven will include glorified senses. I think we’ll hear angels sing in octaves that will blow our auditory cortexes! And we’ll see millions of new colors that will blow away our visual cortexes!

The poet, John Ruskin said, “The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”