Brown Bears and Red Birds – November 03, 2002
Not long ago a mother was reading her three-year-old son a bedtime story about brown bears and red birds. When the story was finished, the boy asked who made bears and birds. The mother explained that God was the Creator; He created all things—even us. The boy, deep in thought for a moment, said, “Hmm, Him a good creator.”
It’s awe inspiring to think that He who created all things—the bears, the birds, the trees and flowers—also created us and the earth on which we live. But even this spinning globe suspended in space is part of something bigger. The universe is full of the handiwork of God. Noted physicist Stephen Hawking explained that the earth is a “medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe.”1
The thought that we live on a speck of dust in the expanse of space boggles the mind. And yet, instead of feeling small and insignificant, we can reflect with reverent awe upon the Creator, His work, and His glory. With infinite love and matchless power, He watches over us—and all of Creation.
He who formed the sparrow also knows when it falls. Even in a million million galaxies, the “very hairs of your head are all numbered” unto God.2 Not only does He know you; He loves you, listens to your prayers, and fully understands the desires of your heart.
We’re never alone. The Creator of brown bears and red birds neither slumbers nor sleeps as He watches over all His magnificent creations.3
Program #3820
1. Quoted by Neal A. Maxwell in “ ‘Our Creator’s Cosmos’—Vast, Personal,” Church News, 17 Aug. 2002, 3.
2. Matthew 10:30.
3. See Psalm 121:4.