What a view!

Overlooking Tain l'Hermitage (on the left of the river) and
Tournon (on the right). Great wine country!

This was my view as I left our eldest son at a friend's house on my way to the Women's Retreat. What a spectacular country, yet look at how everything is ordered.

What strikes an Aussie, is how controlled nature is in Europe and in France in particular. The French love to control their surroundings and if they have to cope with too many trees in their yard, they cut them down. And to keep it all clean they tile over their front garden. Where does the rain go? Flooding incidents are on the increase as roads and concrete and tiling create order!

Makes us realise how close we are to Adam and Eve! We want to control everything and to know everything. And by 'taming' our surroundings we are under the impression that we do control everything. We just forgot that God asked us to manage His Creation.

Then again, our population is growing so much and our level of materialism is so high now that we are asking an awful lot of this Creation.

How to find the happy medium ? How to respect what God has provided for us ?