Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is The Stretch.

Occasionally, I like to share posts that are more devotional,

rather than geared toward intercession, and that is the case today.

I love nature and the outdoors, sunrise, sunset, mountains, oceans, rivers, streams, trees. I just find God be a pretty good artist. I also love to check

out the animals. I've watched squirrels gather nuts, rabbits nibble leaves and veggies.

Woodpeckers bang away at trees.

How do they do that without rattling their brains out?

Have you ever watched a hummingbird up close?

Their wings go a gazillion times a second?

Or have you observed the unmoving wings of an eagle as it soars?

How did God think up all this stuff?

I love observing and listening to elk. The sounds they make are fascinating.

You've never heard all of nature's wonders until you've heard a bull elk bugle. When you hear this up

close, it's one of the greatest rushes you could ever imagine. In mating season, you can

actually call in a bull elk using calls that mimic the sounds of a cow elk in heat,

attracted like moths to a flame. They come running. When they approach is with tenacious and fierce

determination. They grunt, bugle, and snort both to alert the cow that they're coming and to warn any

other bulls in the area that this is their date, back off.

The bugling begins from hundreds of yards away and continues off and on as they approach.

The first time I heard this, I became more wired with adrenaline with every bugle.

I was convinced that the Archangel Gabriel was coming through the woods with his trumpet. We were hiding in some brush and the expert caller was

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