Birds in the Sky, Fish in the Sea: Attending to Creation with Delight and Wonder

The Lord our God has set his glory in the heavens and made us stewards over the works of his hands--all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild. Yet how often do we stop to consider the world around us, or be mindful of the creatures he has made? In this illustrated book two naturalists collaborate to help us to delight and wonder at the works of God, through careful attentiveness to creation, as well as seek to deepen our understanding of why such attentive wonder is so important. In doing so, Birds in the Sky, Fish in the Sea draws us to deeper worship of the Creator, who made not only birds and fishes, but also trees and toads, lizards and lilies, the denizens of the deep, and the bumblebees of our own backyards--as well as the air and waters through which they fly and swim, and the earth across which they run and crawl. Begin to explore our Father’s world through the microscope of this collection of essays, poetry, drawings, and prints, allowing it to inspire you to join with all of Creation and sing ＂Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!＂

Matthew Dickerson has written extensively about both theology and nature: God’s revelation in the Word and through creation. His writings on theology and spiritual formation include the books Disciple Making in a Culture of Power, Comfort and Fear and Aslan’s Breath: Seeing the Holy Spirit in Narnia as well as essays that have appeared in numerous magazines and book chapters. He also coauthored (with David O’Hara) Narnia and the Fields of Arbol and (with Jonathan Evans) Ents, Elves, and Eriador, which explore the attentiveness to creation and the modeling of creation care in the writings of (respectively) C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. He is a regular writer of daily devotions for Fuller Theological Seminary’s Life for Leaders. Dickerson has also written numerous books about nature, ecology, and trout--often through the narrative lens of fly fishing--including The Voices of Rivers: Reflections on Places Wild and Almost Wild and The Salvelinus, the Sockeye, and the Egg-Sucking Leech. His writings about trout and fly fishing have also appeared in several magazines and journals including The Drake, Backcountry Journal, Written River, Books and Culture, and American Fly Fishing. He has served as artist-in-residence for Glacier National Park, Acadia National Park, and Alaska State Parks. He lives with his wife of more than 35 years on a 62-acre wooded Vermont hillside which they share with deer, bear, fox, bobcats, wild turkeys, wood frogs, red efts, and more bird species than they have yet learned to identify. Matthew L. Clark is a teacher at a Christian classical school in central Florida where he labors valiantly to pass on his love of creation to both art and science students. When not managing an unwieldy number of chickens, dogs, fish, lizards, snakes and turtles as pets, Matthew and his family can be found outdoors, crashing through the woods. Learn more at stlukesattic.com